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  20 June 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - A project to strengthen the fight against child labor Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of child labor in the agricultural sector continues to be one of the emergencies in the Country. Thanks to an initiative promoted by the local Labor Ministry, the Project "Semilla" h ...
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  20 June 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Three people killed in a suicide attack, Patriarch Ignatius Ephraim II escapes the bombing Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - Three people were killed by a suicide attack yesterday during a religious meeting organized in Qamishli in northern Syria, to commemorate the "Assyrian genocideof 1915, by the Ottoman army. Acc ...
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  20 June 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The first concern of the Church is peace", recalls the Apostolic Nuncio Guanare (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in Venezuela, His Exc. Mgr. Aldo Giordano, stressed that it is the duty of the Church to seek dialogue in the country, a dialogue for peace and to meet the needs of the popu ...
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  20 June 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishops: "It is time to work for the reconstruction of the country" t Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Now is not the time for recriminations. Now is the time for the government and all citizens to work together for the future. Do not indulge in destructive criticism; instead roll up your sleeves a ...
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  20 June 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The worst forms of clandestine child labor registered in Latin America Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Guatemala, with 850 thousand 937 child laborers and 43% of children who do not attend school, has the highest rate of child labor in Latin America, according to information sent to Fides. ...
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  20 June 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Caritas: poverty, development and climate justice on the political agenda Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Work towards development and put the poor "at the center of the political agenda": is the appeal of Caritas Philippines and of a group of about 30 religious and civil organizations to newly ele ...
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  20 June 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - New threats to the village of Ngaoudaye, where a Capuchin mission was ransacked Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The MPC-RJ armed group has not returned to base near Paoua after the attack on Ngaoudaye, but withdrawn in Kollo, a village on the border with Chad" refer Church sources to Agenzia Fides. Fight ...
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  20 June 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Verification for the November ballot begins Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua, called on citizens with the right to vote in the upcoming elections in November, to see if their names appear on the electoral roll. According to ...
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  18 June 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The City of Joy welcomes mistreated orphans and vulnerable children Monze (Agenzia Fides) - The Health Desk of Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC) has rescued some orphaned and venerable children in Monze Diocese who were being abused by adults. The girls are among the 20 Orphaned and Vuln ...
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  18 June 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Violence in the Mapuche region: church burned and attack on police Araucania (Agenzia Fides) – At dawn on Friday 17 a fire destroyed a church located in the town of Collipulli in the Araucania region. The facts reported to Fides are very serious because there was a firefight in the ar ...
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  18 June 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Practices of witchcraft and sorcery to cure diseases Mzuzu (Agenzia Fides) - It is hard to imagine the power that sorcerers in Africa still have, said one of the organization's representatives of Under The Same Sun (UTSS), a charitable organisation that promotes the well-b ...
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  18 June 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Church's response to the scourge of drugs, reflection at the National Eucharistic Congress Tucuman (Agenzia Fides) - The area of Social Pastoral and Lay people, one of the thirteen that has divided the work of the XI National Eucharistic Congress which takes place in the city of San Miguel de Tucuman (Argentin ...
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  18 June 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Claretians engaged in solidarity with flood victims Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Religious Claretians in Sri Lanka are actively engaged in helping victims of the floods that hit the country last May, leaving massive damage to persons, houses, facilities. The Major Superior o ...
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  18 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Police Violence against Christians Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Pakistan are abused also by the police. On Sunday, June 12 police officer Amir Abdullah raided the Protestant Christian Church in Fazalia district, Lahore, and hit and humiliated Pa ...
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  17 June 2016
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Religious leaders call for the approval of new laws to save Puerto Rico San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders of Puerto Rico and the United States met yesterday, and meetings also continue today, with US Senators to urge them to support the legislation of the debt restructuring of Pue ...