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  8 June 2016
  ASIA - The Friars Minor, evangelizing presence in Asia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - 1,460 Friars Minor are present in Asia and Oceania and they carry out a valuable work of evangelical witness of life and service to the poor, "a sign to awaken hope", says OFM Minister General, Fri ...
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  8 June 2016
   AFRICA - Strengthening coordination among the 14 African Caritas Paris (Agenzia Fides) - To strengthen the coordination of 14 Caritas operating in Africa. This is the purpose of the meeting which opened yesterday, June 7, in Paris, attended by about fifty people, including 11 Bishops ...
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  8 June 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Demining in the country: sign of lasting peace Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Seven years after the end of a long civil conflict which lasted 26 years, Sri Lanka has agreed to join the Treaty to ban anti-personnel mines, also known as the "Ottawa Convention". The northern ...
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  8 June 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Opposition and civil society in Brussels to discuss how to "avert chaos" Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - A hundred delegates of the opposition and civil society of the Democratic Republic of Congo are meeting in Brussels on 8 and 9 June, at the invitation of Etienne Tshisekedi, leader of the UPSD ...
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  8 June 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Syriac Orthodox Patriarch meets President Barzani: thank you for having given shelter to Christian refugees Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation composed of nine Syriac Orthodox, Syrian Catholic and Chaldean Bishops, led by Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II, was received today Tuesday, June 7 by Masud Barzani, P ...
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  8 June 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Mgr. Simon Piorno to the new President: "It is time to think about the Country" Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Chimbote, His Exc. Mgr. Angel Francisco Simon Piorno, expects the members of the new Congress to support the measures of the new Head of State. "I hope the fujimori ...
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  7 June 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The President rejects international observers in the elections, the Bishops are critical Granada (Agenzia Fides) - "Shameless observers. Your observation has finished here, now you can go and observe other countries": with these words, Nicaraguan President Ortega, in his speech at the Congress of the Sandini ...
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  7 June 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Peaceful mobilization of the Church against OEA and its policies Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The 46th Assembly of the Organization of American States (OEA is the acronym in Spanish) on the theme "Building institutional capacity for sustainable development in America", to be held i ...
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  7 June 2016
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Missionary Cooperation: Korea-Mongolia agreement Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Prefecture of Ulaanbaatar and the Korean Archdiocese in Seoul have signed an agreement to improve missionary cooperation and promote the development of the Church in Mongolia. ...
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  7 June 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - Christian leaders: "Young people stay in Africa: Europe does not automatically guarantee comfort and pleasure" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "We are saddened by the news about the many migrant deaths in the deserts of North Africa and in the waters of the Mediterranean and we appeal to States and African governments to take measures to ...
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  7 June 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Collection of school material for Senegalese children in Thiès O Grove (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Association For a smile O Grove organizes a school material collection campaign with the goal of helping school children from Thiès in Senegal. It may be just a notebook, a pencil, ...
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  7 June 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The plight of albinos at risk for false popular beliefs Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On June 13, we celebrate International Albinism Awareness Day and the European Day of Skin Cancer Prevention. The phenomenon of albinism penalizes and affect the daily lives of so many people. In ...
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  7 June 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch to Muslims: an "exceptional Ramadan" is needed to counter sectarianism Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "The month of Ramadan offers a propitious time for fasting, prayer, repentance and to change mentality and behavior (metanoia), in order to live in peace with oneself and others". These are the ...
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  7 June 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The restoration work of the Aedicule starts at Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre shrine Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - A major restoration project has begun at the shrine inside Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre where Jesus is said to have been buried before his resurrection. The experts involved in the ...
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  7 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Interfaith prayer for Prime Minister Sharif's health Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders met in Lahore to pray "for the recovery and long life" of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, 66, who in recent days underwent a delicate heart surgery in London . The ...