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  27 June 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Get to the truth of the facts respecting the rights of the person Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - "It is essential to increase the importance of real professional preparation regarding all those who are to investigate on crimes in our society, so that by respecting the dignity of the human ...
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  27 June 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Archbishop of Vasai: "The laity is protagonist in the Church" Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "The laity have a very important role in the Church. In India we want to build a Church where the laity is the protagonist": is what His Exc. Mgr. Felix Machado, Archbishop of Vasai said, presidi ...
• 25 June 2016
  VATICAN - Statement from the Director of the Holy See Press Office Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Lombardi issued the following statement to reporters on June 23: "In response to the requests of news by several journalists I am in a positi ...
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  24 June 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Birth of a new Catholic community in Kokossa: catechumens - of the poorest of the poor Kokossa (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, June 19, Solemnity of Pentecost according to the liturgical calendar of the Ethiopian Church, a new Catholic Christian community was born in Kokossa, in Ethiopia, in the Oromia regi ...
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  24 June 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops: "A historic event, the first step to building peace" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Colombia recognizes the definitive agreement of Peace between the Colombian government and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) as "a historic event for t ...
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  24 June 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops pay a visit to the diocese of Maiduguri marked by the violence of Boko Haram Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are on a visit of solidarity with the people and the Church of Borno to see for ourselves the devastation caused by the activities of Boko Haram", said His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Leke Abegunrin, Ar ...
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  24 June 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops to resolve the conflict with teachers: Public dialogue and shared educational project Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - The National Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral considers that dialogue in order to address and resolve the conflict with the teachers in Oaxacan should be public, and it is also necessary ...
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  24 June 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Archbishop: the Pope is right, the definition of 'genocide' applied to the plight of Christians in the Middle East is misleading Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - "What the Pope said on the definition of the 'genocide' applied to the sufferings of Christians in the Middle East is beautiful and useful, because it brings us back to reality and helps us not ...
• 24 June 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Archbishop of Taunggyi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 June 2016 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Basilio Athai as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Taunggyi (Myanmar). The newly-elected Archbishop was born on July 22, 1956 in Kyek ...
• 24 June 2016
  OCEANIA/MARIANA ISLANDS - Appointment of the Bishop of Chalan Kanoa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 June 2016 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Ryan Jimenez as Bishop of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa (Saipan), in the Northern Mariana Islands. The newly-elected Bishop was born on 18 ...
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  24 June 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Concerns of the Church on the new measures on migration Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - One notices an opening to review the migration policy for refugees, but must be realized in concrete, taking into account that the devil hides in the details. This is the meaning of the not ...
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  24 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Sufi singer killed: pain and condemnation of the \Bishops Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Deep sorrow and condemnation for yet another murder that has shaken the nation": in a statement sent to Fides, the "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Episcopal Conference of Pakistan, said i ...
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  24 June 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenians demonstrate to demand the election of a new Patriarch Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Turkish Christians of the Armenian Apostolic Church organized a protest demonstration yesterday, Thursday, June 23, in Istanbul, outside the headquarters of their Patriarchate, to as ...
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  23 June 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The orphans of Da Ming celebrate Father's Day for priests who take care of them Han Dan (Agenzia Fides) - The disabled children, abandoned by their parents, and the orphans welcomed at the Don Bosco Institute of Da Ming, in the Diocese of Han Dan, celebrated "Father's Day", celebrating the priests w ...
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  23 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Targeted killings against the Ahmadis: third victim Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A homeopathic doctor belonging to the Ahmadiyya community was killed in his clinic in Karachi on June 20. Chaudhry Khaliq Ahmad was killed by unknown assailants while he was on his way to visit ...