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4 April 2012
ASIA/INDIA-Easter Pilgrimage and the Way of the Cross in the tribal areas of the Northeast
Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - With Easter approaching, the Church in Northeast India – an area troubled by tribal conflict - shows its closeness to the tribal people, who have embraced the Christian faith. For the past fe ...
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4 April 2012
AFRICA - The north of Mali like the east of the DRC? The question of the press in Kinshasa
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The north of Mali like the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo? Is what the Congolese newspaper "Le Potentiel" asks in an article entitled "Est de la RDC, Nord du Mali: des Similitudes frappantes" ...
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4 April 2012
AMERICA/PERU - For the first time the Pope's Holy Week will be broadcast on tv across the country
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Peru informs, through a joint statement to Fides, the extensive media coverage, that the Holy Week celebrations presided by the Holy Father, will have this year in Peru. ...
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4 April 2012
VATICAN - Christians and Buddhists: common responsibility able to guide the young people to become instruments of justice and peace
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The message that the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue sent to Buddhists on the occasion of Vesakh, which commemorates the principal events of Buddha's life, is dedicated to ...
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4 April 2012
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops advise moderation and caution with regards to dialogue with the guerrillas; without the will on behalf of the parties true peace will never be reached
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Colombian area "eje Cafetero" (Pereira, Armenia and Manizales), so named for the particular coffee production, consider that the decision of the government of a possible dialo ...
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4 April 2012
OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS -Deaths, thousands displaced, severe flooding: Tropical Depression brings down the Fiji to their knees
Suva (Agenzia Fides) - At least seven peole have died, including a 3-year-old child, and almost 12 000 people displaced due to the flooding caused by the cyclone Daphne that hit the Fiji islands, in the South Pacific Acc ...
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3 April 2012
ASIA/PAKISTAN-Education without hatred or prejudice: Commission's appeal "Justice and Peace"
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - No to bigotry in schools, no to the imposition of Islamic studies to non-Muslim students: is the appeal launched by the Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Episcopal Conference of Pakstan focus ...
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3 April 2012
AMERICA/COLOMBIA- FARC-10 hostages have been released, the Church welcomes the gesture, but asks for more
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Colombia expressed their satisfaction with the release of ten people (including members of the police and army) who had been kidnapped by the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces o ...
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3 April 2012
AFRICA/MALI - In Gao the church and the Caritas local office were destroyed, the 200 remaining Christians fear for their fate
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Mali says its local office in Gao in northern Mali was destroyed along with the local church after Tuareg rebels seized the city at the weekend. This was reported by Caritas Mali in a sta ...
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3 April 2012
ASIA/NORTH KOREA-Christians and NGOs to the UN: Stop to the gulag in North Korea
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations are asked to help North Korea to close forever the vast gulag system in the country: is what is asked, in a petition today to the UN Council for Human Rights, on behalf of over ...
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3 April 2012
ASIA - Over 50 million people in Muslim countries suffered serious damage in 2011
Dubai (Agenzia Fides) - At the International Humanitarian Aid & Development Conference & Exhibition, the recent meeting held in Dubai, sources of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said that disasters and cri ...
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3 April 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - 25 deaths per month due to the war of "blood minerals" in Kivu
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In recent months, national and foreign armed groups still present in Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have resumed and intensified their military activities. This is revealed i ...
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3 April 2012
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Cathedral is still occupied, dialogue has been interrupted for the "Easter holidays"
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. Jose Escobar Alas, complained that for the past three months, the Metropolitan Cathedral has been occupied by a group of ex-combatants, which d ...
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3 April 2012
AMERICA/CUBA - Good Friday as a public holiday and a Cardinal Ortega’s message broadcast on national television
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - With the churches that were overflowing with people, the Cubans began Holy Week in a more relaxed climate. Not only the announcement that Friday will be a public holiday on the island was made, b ...
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3 April 2012
AMERICA/PERU - To guide and protect the poor children of Abancay, giving them the human dignity
Abancay (Agenzia Fides) - Children's Abancay has recently been presented, a non-profit association destined to guide and protect children in the city of Abancay, state capital of Apurimac, Peru. The Congregation of the D ...
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