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  9 May 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Meeting of the border dioceses of 4 countries dedicated to environment and climate change El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - The 31st Meeting of "border dioceses" which will bring together a hundred people including Bishops, priests, religious women and lay people from four countries: Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and U ...
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  9 May 2016
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Catholic Church burned down: third place of Christian worship burned so far this year Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic church was burned to the ground in the northwest of Tanzania. We are talking about the church in Nyarwele, in the region of Kagera, in the extreme north-west of Tanzania, on the ...
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  9 May 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church to voters: "Think of Christ when you vote" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Keep Christ in mind, when you vote in today's election, May 9: is the exhortation addressed to the voters by the Philippine Church on the occasion of World Communications Day, celebrated yesterda ...
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  9 May 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Week for Christian Unity: respectful, not only tolerant, towards migrants Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - In Brazil, as in many other Latin American countries, the week before Pentecost is dedicated to prayer for Christian unity. "Called to proclaim the great works of the Lord" is the theme chos ...
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  9 May 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Luis Raphael I writes to the Chaldean diocese in the US: the priests who have emigrated without permission have to reflect on their vocation Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – To divide the ecclesial body in separate groups is a "serious sin", in a time when the Chaldean Church is also prompted by the dramatic historical circumstances which guards unity with speci ...
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  9 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New projects to stem the phenomenon of street children Villahermosa (Agenzia Fides) - The local government of the Mexican state of Tabasco are coming together to address the problem of street children and to find a solution. Although there is a Center of Assistance for Child ...
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  9 May 2016
  AMERICA - One year of zika in Latin America Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Since its discovery in Uganda in 1947, the Zika virus had never left Africa until 2007 when 185 suspected cases in Micronesia, in the Pacific were registered. Over the past seven years a few ...
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  9 May 2016
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Catholicos Aram I inaugurates the school and the Armenian Cultural Center in Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Armenian immigrants working in the United Arab Emirates took part, on Saturday, May 7, in the official inauguartion of the new Armenian cultural center, in the area of Musaffah, in ...
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  9 May 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Onaiyekan: Massacres in the southeast, "there are those who are fanning the flames of religious discord" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a terrible wind blowing around our country right now. There are so many people who are fanning the flames of discord and of hatred and it is becoming very difficult to preach unity and m ...
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  9 May 2016
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - In the Year of Jubilee 111 baptisms and 80 catechumens Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - There are 111 new baptized that enrich the Cambodian Church in the Year of Mercy, and 80 catechumens were admitted, during Lent, to prepare themselves for the Sacrament of Baptism: refers to ...
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  7 May 2016
  AMERICA/CANADA - Fires in Fort McMurray: the Pope's prayer Fort McMurray (Agenzia Fides) - The city of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta (Canada), is completely deserted, abandoned by its inhabitants because of a fire that has destroyed 1,600 buildings. The fire forced the evacu ...
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  7 May 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox priest insults women for not wearing appropriate clothing to church. The Patriarch suspends him Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Heavy criticism was expressed by Coptic Orthodox priest Boulos Mansur towards Christian women who, according to him come to church not wearing appropriate clothing, provoking reactions and controv ...
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  7 May 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. García Peláez: "Solidarity before the dramatic situation of the flood victims" Istmina (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal for solidarity for the victims of the recent floods: says the Colombian Episcopal Conference, relaunching the appeal of Mgr. Julio Hernando García Peláez, Bishop of the diocese of Is ...
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  7 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church of Punjab united, beyond the Indo-Pakistani border Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – To overcome divisions, differences, political tensions that exist between India and Pakistan and rediscover the common roots, in the sign of culture, faith, fraternity: with this spirit the Dio ...
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  7 May 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch Rai again meets political leaders to discuss the institutional crisis Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Almost two years after the end of the mandate of Michel Sleiman, the office of President of the Lebanese Republic remains vacant due to the vetoes among different political blocs. In the face of ...