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  5 July 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Massacres and tensions in North Kivu: perhaps to empty resource-rich territories? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the year, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seven reception centers for displaced persons have been closed and, for at least six of them, the reason is ...
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  4 July 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Dialogue with the Mapuche, the government asks Mgr. Vargas to intervene Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Chilean government is organizing an unprecedented dialogue meeting to address the Mapuche conflict in the area: this was confirmed to the local press by the Bishop of the Diocese of Temuco, H ...
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  4 July 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The appeal of the Apostolic Vicar of Chaco Paraguayo: "Live without violence and abuse" Chaco (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal "to non-violence and coexistence without abuse" was launched by His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, Apostolic Vicar of Chaco Paraguayo. The request came yesterday, after report ...
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  4 July 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "Brilliant Lessons": school education program for Shoe-shine children Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Guatemalan children working as a shoe-shine generally live far from any form of education, and remain without prospects for a different future. They cannot go to school because they a ...
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  4 July 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Bishops: forgiveness and mercy after the massacre Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Abandon all forms of violence to embrace forgiveness and mercy: this is what a message of the Catholic Bishops of Bangladesh say in the aftermath of the terrorist massacre on July 1 which killed 2 ...
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  4 July 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop of Tombura-Yambio: "Dialogue is the only path to peace: stop to inflammatory speeches" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Language is doing much more violence, sometimes even much more harm than the gun", said His Exc. Mgr. Edward Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio in South Sudan, while speaking to a United N ...
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  4 July 2016
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Kigali reacts to the accusations of Washington on the recruitment of Burundian refugees in armed groups Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - "A report politically motivated deliberately distorts reality". Thus the Ambassador of Rwanda in Washington, Mathilde Mukantabana, defined the annual US State Department report on human trafficki ...
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  4 July 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Laudato Sì is inspiring for young Catholics Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – To assume the encyclical of Pope Francis "Laudato Sì" as "magna carta" for a respectful way of life and attentive towards the weak, the poor, care for creation: is what emerged from the recent ...
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  2 July 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Baltazar Porras: Attack on students and seminarians: "This violence disqualifies the government" Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday afternoon, July 1, a group of violent (presumably one of the gangs that is trying to take control of the city) attacked a group of students who were going to school, among whom there w ...
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  2 July 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Catholic Bishops of the new Apostolic Administrator: "Working together to build bridges of dialogue" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "For 12 years you have animated the friars of the Holy Land Custody and taken care of the ecumenical relations with Greek Orthodox and Armenian Orthodox Patriarchates. Your fraternal friendshi ...
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  2 July 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic priest killed on the anniversary of the beginning of the uprising against former President Morsi Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A Coptic priest, Fr. Rafael Moussa, was killed in Al Arish in the north of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, in an attack claimed by the local branch of the Islamic State. The murder took place on June 30, ...
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  2 July 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Terrorism in the country, the PMS Director: "We are afraid" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "After the attack in Dhaka, we are very concerned about the growth of terrorism. These terrorist acts are damaging the country and its image abroad. The situation we are experiencing is really dif ...
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  2 July 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The Church is with you", says the Bishop of Garissa to refugees Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Dear migrants and refugees, never lose the hope that you too are facing a more secure future, that on your journey you will encounter an outstretched hand, and that you can experience fraternal ...
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  1 July 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Immigration Reform: not a political issue, but defense of human rights Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - "Now we need a global immigration reform. It is not a political issue, it is a matter of human rights and protection of human dignity": are the words of His Exc. Mgr. José Gomez, Archbishop ...
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  1 July 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Former Vietnamese refugee new Bishop of Parramatta Parramatta (Agenzia Fides) - "I have made many leaps of faith in my life" said His Exc. Mgr. Vincent Long Van Nguyen, who fled Vietnam in 1975 among the "boat people" who fled the country on makeshift boats to Australia. ...