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  12 July 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - At World Youth Day in Krakow young Iraqis will pray the 'Our Father' in Aramaic before the Pope Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - There will be more than two hundred young Iraqi Christians who from all the dioceses of the Country will participate in the forthcoming World Youth Day (WYD), to be held in Krakow in late July. ...
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  12 July 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "Forgive us" say the Bengali people after the massacre in Dhaka Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - In the place in Dhaka, where terrorists on July 1 killed 22 people, someone brought flowers, including an unnamed wreath, with two words on the ribbon: "Forgive us". "I think that it expresses the ...
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  12 July 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The leader of the protest movement, Baptist pastor Evan Mawarire has been arrested Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The leader of popular protests in Zimbabwe has been charged with inciting public disorder as authorities move to break up a wave of opposition in the unstable southern African state. Evan Mawarir ...
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  12 July 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy via WhatsApp: Christian arrested, risk of "collective punishment" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Digital blasphemy" is gaining ground in Pakistan. According to Fides sources complaints of blasphemy that record the alleged crime of insulting Islam or Prophet Muhammad committed on the web or ...
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  12 July 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - "I am a facilitator of dialogue, nothing more", says Mgr. Vargas Bastidas Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the criticisms that have emerged in recent days, with regards to the dialogue table which has begun in Araucanía to address various problems of the area, the Bishop of Temuco, His Exc. M ...
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  11 July 2016
  ASIA - Female Infanticide: China and India still at the top of the list New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - China and India are among the countries at the top of the world rankings for female infanticide: says the latest report released by the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), the first global s ...
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  11 July 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Stop to corruption!": triennium in the hands of the youth begins Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Paraguay is asking young people to be leaders in the next three years, in order to fight corruption. This challenge, as the Bishop of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo, His ...
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  11 July 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The refelction of the Bishops on the new work: "A Canal for all" Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The opening of the Canal after the works of enlargement, "was an event that filled us with joy and patriotism, because this work has a special meaning in the history of the people of Panama. ...
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  11 July 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "There is a risk of genocide! The international community must intervene immediately to stop": alarm from Juba Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a risk of genocide in South Sudan. Write it in large letters, so that someone from the international community intervenes before it is too late". This is the appeal launched through Agenz ...
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  11 July 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Abdul Sattar Edhi, charity without borders: example for humanity Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Abdul Sattar Edhi showed the human face of Pakistan. He was a Muslim who devoted his whole life to charity and to the next, without any discrimination. He taught us that charity has no boundary, ...
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  11 July 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Archbishop: sectarian attacks increase, one every ten days Minya (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to ask the police to enforce the law protecting citizens from any sectarian discrimination was launched yesterday by Anba Makarius, Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of Minya, after the series ...
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  AFRICA/GHANA - Bishops concerned for radio attacks against judges Accra (Agenzia Fides) - " We have received media reports on the threat of attack on members of the Judiciary allegedly made by two panelists during a radio discussion on an Accra-based Muntie FM with a lot of worry and a ...
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  11 July 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo still under bombs. Bishop Audo: we live among the desolation of war and the consolation of God Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are again under bombs. We do not know what is about to happen. Even last night we could not sleep, and this morning an artillery shell also fell in the street of our cathedral, resulting in o ...
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  6 July 2016
  EUROPE/POLAND - Missionary Animation focuses on young people Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - 42 participants, from 15 dioceses of Poland, attended the second level Course for Missionary Animators, organized by the Missionary Animation Centre in Warsaw from 27 June to 1 July. According to ...
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  6 July 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Zika and dengue: precautions during the Olympics Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - As of August 5, Brazil, the Country hardest hit by the zika virus, will host the Olympic Games despite months of criticism and discussion. Health workers have warned sports delegations, ...