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  14 July 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The value of the elderly: the Church's campaign for social justice Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - To celebrate the Day of Social Justice, 25 September, and inaugurate the campaign for the year 2016-2017 with one central theme: the life of the elderly. This is the initiative of the Council for ...
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  13 July 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Did the "hawks" trigger the clashes in the capital? Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "What has happened in recent days indicates an absence of unity of command, a very serious thing for an army because it means disorder. On July 11, President Salva Kiir ordered the military to retu ...
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  13 July 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Civilians killed in Orissa, the Church in alarm Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Orissa is on alert after the killing of five civilians, including two Christians in the district of Kandhamal in the Indian state of Orissa. As Fides learns, the five ...
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  13 July 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Volunteers, doctors, nurses continue their commitment towards the population in South Sudan Padova (Agenzia Fides) - "I am with you in a direct and personal way to share what we are experiencing in South Sudan, particularly in Juba, the capital". This is what Fr. Dante Carraro, Director of Doctors with Africa C ...
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  13 July 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The priorities of the Bishops: entry of medicines, opening of the border, political prisoners Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The Archbishops and Bishops of Venezuela, gathered in the 106th Ordinary Assembly, want to share the anguish with the Venezuelan people and want to communicate the hope that, reconciled and thr ...
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  13 July 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 70 years of presence of the Friars Minor Conventual in Brazil Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations for the 70 years of presence of the Friars Minor Conventual in Latin America and the Caribbean begins today in Rio de Janeiro. For three days, from July 13 to 15, confere ...
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  13 July 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Orthodox Church is mobilizing against illiteracy Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Church is mobilizing against illiteracy, affecting sectors of the Egyptian population belonging to different generations. The pilot experiment of the new campaign for literacy ...
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  13 July 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - 45 million Thais invited to vote for the draft of the new Constitution Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - On August 7, about 45 million Thai people will be invited to express their consent on the draft of the new Constitution approved in January 2016. "Everywhere you see huge posters, billboards, an ...
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  13 July 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic schools, the beating heart of the nation Naga City (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic schools are essential to the mission of the Church in the Philippines and represent the beating heart of the nation: is what was stated by the general assembly of the Association of C ...
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  13 July 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Hopes for the permanent reopening of the border with Venezuela Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - As reported in a note sent to Fides, last Sunday about 35,000 Venezuelans in San Antonio del Táchira crossed the Simon Bolivar international bridge heading for the Colombian city of Cucuta, to ...
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  13 July 2016
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Palestinian President Abu Mazen gives the Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal the "Medal of Jerusalem" Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the end of his mission at the head of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, emeritus Patriarch Fouad Twal was honoured by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with the "Medal of ...
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  13 July 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bro Argese, "water missionary", publicly thanked the Diocese of Meru Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank the Consolata missionaries for giving us Bro Argese to work in Meru for all these years. They gave us education, water, hospitals and they put up the diocese and supported us so that t ...
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  12 July 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Education is the driving force of integral development": dialogue between teachers and government begins Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas, His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, said that "true education reform should not only be in the field of labor and management, but sh ...
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  12 July 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Cuamm launches an appeal to the local institutions: "cease fire as soon as possible" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after NGO Doctors with Africa Cuamm had remembered the fifth anniversary of the independence of the youngest State in the world, (see Fides 08/07/2016) violent clashes in Juba between th ...
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  12 July 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Thousands of displaced people in churches, humanitarian emergency in Juba after the end of the fighting Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Calm has returned to Juba, capital of South Sudan, devastated by days of fighting (see Fides 11/07/2016), after President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar declared ceasefire last nig ...