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  14 June 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - President of the Rural Workers Union assassinated: violence and murders in the Amazon increase Parà (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazon ecclesiastical network (REPAM) of Brazil repudiates the violent action and the attack that killed leader, Carlos Cabral Pereira, president of the Union of Rural Workers (STR the acr ...
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  14 June 2019
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - The Minister of tolerance presides over the official opening of the Christian archaeological site of Sir Bani Yas Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - The oldest Christian archaeological site of the island of Sir Bani Yas, 200 km west of the city of Abu Dhabi, was opened on Thursday, June 13 following extensive improvements to the site that ...
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  14 June 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Political tensions and identity crises in society: the prophetic role of the Church Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The turbulent declarations of Ivorian politicians continue to feed serious threats to the political stability of our country, especially in view of the presidential elections of 2020", says Fat ...
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  14 June 2019
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Sri Lankan government establishes a Council for reconciliation between religions Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Sri Lankan government has announced that it will establish a special "Council for reconciliation between religions", with the aim of building interreligious coexistence in society and avoid ...
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  14 June 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - Boko Haram threaten Christians in Diffa. "Real news, but there is no mass flight of the faithful" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians have been threatened but there is no mass flight of the faithful" says Mgr. Anthony Coudjofio, Vicar General of Niamey to Agenzia Fides, to whom we asked if it is true that the Christ ...
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  14 June 2019
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Caritas launches sustainable agriculture project: it will provide livelihood and professional training Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The construction of the two greenhouses in Almaty and Talgar has been completed. This means that we are about to start the operational phase of the sustainable agriculture project. The first asp ...
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  14 June 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops ask the authorities to intervene: Two young people kidnapped and killed in a few days Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent times we have experienced situations of great violence that have been a real ordeal for citizens and for many families in different parts of the country": says the Bishops’ Conf ...
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  13 June 2019
  VATICAN - The first African American Catholic priest and a PIME missionary among the new venerables Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - American priest Agostino Tolton (1854-1897), the first African American Catholic priest, and the lay religious of PIME Felice Tantardini (1898-1991), a missionary in Myanmar, are among the ...
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  13 June 2019
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Heads of the Churches of Jerusalem: Ateret Cohanim's real estate operations in the Old City threaten coexistence among monotheistic faiths Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Heads of Churches and ecclesial communities present in Jerusalem express "great surprise" at the speed with which the Supreme Court of Israel expressed itself in favor of the Jewish Ateret ...
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  13 June 2019
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops to the government: we continue solidarity towards the Venezuelan brothers, 94% live in extreme poverty Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, President of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference (CEP) and President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), in a letter addressed to the President of the ...
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  13 June 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missiology seminar on the subject of the Extraordinary Missionary Month Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – About forty missiologists from all over Brazil are participating in the National Missiology Seminar, from 10 to 14 June, at the Missionary Cultural Center (CCM), in Brasilia. The theme of the ...
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  13 June 2019
  AFRICA/MALI - President and Cardinal Zerbo bring their solidarity to the victims of Sobame Da massacre Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jean Zerbo Archbishop of Bamako and President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta are in the village of Sobame Da this morning, in the Mopti region in central Mali, where in the night between 9 and ...
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  13 June 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Gigi Maccalli still prisoner: "Stubborn witness of the Gospel among the poorest" Feriole (Agenzia Fides) - "Every time I read on the turret of our house of the Society for African Missions (SMA) in Genoa or in front of our house in Feriole 'Release Father Gigi' I ask myself and our community to ask t ...
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  13 June 2019
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Bishop in Flores: "The boom in vocations arises from faith lived in the family" Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Our local Church today is a missionary Church. We have over 500 priests and religious sent as missionaries to Indonesia and the world. We are a Church blessed by the Lord with many vocations to ...
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  12 June 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops after Mexico-US agreement: "migrant brothers must never be used as currency" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "As Mexican Bishops’ Conference, we express our concern about the lack of a truly humanitarian welcome for our migrant brothers and sisters which reflects our convictions in recognizing an ...