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  17 June 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assad receives the Patriarch and six Syrian Catholic Bishops: "the President is planning a totally new secular Constitution" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian President Bashar Assad is planning a new Constitution for the nation led by him, to ensure equal rights for all citizens and eliminate discrimination toward religious minorities. These a ...
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  17 June 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Tension rises, the Bishops call for dialogue Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - There is growing political tension in Uganda, where some soldiers were arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow President Yoweri Museveni. On June 13, police authorities announced that they ...
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  17 June 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Humanitarian projects in favor of refugees and displaced in Lebanon, Thailand and Egypt Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the world, to date, just over 59 million people have been forced to leave their countries of origin mainly because of wars and internal conflicts. 19 and a half million are refugees, 38 millio ...
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  17 June 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Strong condemnation of the murderous violence Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Asunción, His Exc. Mgr. Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid, S.D.B., in a brief interview to a local radio station, spoke of the murder of the businessman and alleged drug tr ...
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  17 June 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A missionary: "Armed gangs are reforming again; we hope in the intervention of the Blue Helmets" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in Bozoum there are no problems, I know that there have been more in the north", says to Agenzia Fides, Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, Carmelite, parish priest in Bozoum, in the northwest of the Cent ...
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  17 June 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians join the fasting of Ramadan. Chaldean Patriarch: weapons kill, prayer and fasting for peace work miracles Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Today, many Christians in Iraq at the invitation of the Chaldean Patriarchate, join the fasting observed by their Muslim fellow citizens during the holy month of Ramadan. The initiative, propo ...
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  16 June 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic communities in the footsteps of the Apostle Barnabas Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The liturgical feasts of the Apostles are in particular felt by the Chinese Catholics, who choose such occasions for many initiatives related to evangelization and pastoral commitment, th ...
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  16 June 2016
  AFRICA/NIGER - Migrants left to die of thirst, men, women and children Assamakka (Agenzia Fides) - Niger's Interior Ministry announced the recent discovery of the bodies of 34 migrants, among them also 20 children, in a desert area near the border with Algeria. Among the 14 adults there are ...
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  16 June 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Guajira: hunger, thirst, poverty, lack of education Riohacha (Agenzia Fides) - Guajira is the Colombian department with the highest index of poverty. There is no water and food and there are many unmet basic needs. Children are those who suffer most, who unfortunately die ...
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  16 June 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The President of magistrates accuses the Church of "playing politics" Managua (Agenzia Fides) – Among the first reactions to the statement from the Bishops' Conference, calling for transparent elections and the presence of international observers (see Fides 15/06/2016), Sandinista judge ...
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  16 June 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Congolese opposition unites and calls for elections by November Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Rassemblement" ("Union") is the name that the Congolese opposition gave itself at the end of the meeting convened in Genval (Belgium) by Etienne Tshisekedi, President of the Union pour la Dém ...
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  16 June 2016
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - A new mission in Erdenet entitled to the Divine Mercy Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - In the year of the Jubilee of Mercy a new local Catholic mission, dedicated to the Divine Mercy opens in Erdenet, the second largest city in Mongolia: confirms the Catholic Church in Mongoli ...
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  16 June 2016
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Mercy at the center of the Malaysian Youth Day Kota Kinabalu (Agenzia Fides) - It was a pilgrimage and an experience centered on the theme of mercy - this is what more than two thousand young Catholics from Malaysia, gathered in the Sabah province (in Malaysian Borne ...
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  16 June 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Militants attack civilians fleeing, displaying Christian symbols. Chaldean Patriarch: they have nothing to do with Christianity Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In the war scenarios around Fallujah, where an offensive is taking place to liberate the city from the control of the jihadists of the Islamic State, also paramilitary groups are operating and a ...
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  16 June 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Senior citizens aware of their rights: a six-meter high mural to call attention Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - On the World Day of Awareness on the abuse of the elderly, the Social Pastoral Vicariate Caritas of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile, yesterday met about 50 elderly people who suffered some ...