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  13 May 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The crisis worsens, the first attempts to leave the country towards the Netherlands Antilles Willemstad (Agenzia Fides) - Angel Ramirez, President of the Red Cross of Curacao, the largest island of the Netherlands Antilles, which is situated in front of Venezuela, said that they are preparing to receive other Ve ...
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  13 May 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist monk: replace churces with pagodas Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Buddhist monk Myaing Kyee Ngu Sayadaw invites his followers to destroy the country's churches and replace them with Buddhist temples. This is the alarm launched by the Christian community in Myan ...
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  13 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops to Catholic journalists: "report the positive news of Africa" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa is often times portrayed as a continent of gloom and doom and societal failures of ethnocentrisms, violent conflicts, corruption, epidemics like HIV/AIDs and Ebola" complained Fr. Chrisa ...
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  13 May 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Infanti: "Yesterday Aysen, today Chiloé, tomorrow there will be other crises" Aysén (Agenzia Fides) - "The crisis in the Los Lagos region presents a national project which becomes more and more a discussion topic, because the development of this social system, essentially neoliberal, instead of p ...
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  13 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appeal of an Assumptionist father: "President, intervene to stop the massacres in North Kivu" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "President, I ask you to take an interest in what is happening in Beni, in Kivu. Could you take into consideration a serious inquiry for a proper justice?". Is the appeal in a letter to the Pre ...
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  13 May 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christian refugees are forced to sign a document to support the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - A fair number of Christian Assyrians, Chaldean and Syrian displaced, who took refuge in the city of Dohuk after their villages were conquered by the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh), were f ...
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  13 May 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - "Garden of Mercy" inaugurated in Amman, humanitarian project for refugees Amman (Agenzia Fides) - A company dedicated to "sustainable" agriculture, with 600 olive trees planted on an area of 10 thousand square meters, which employs 15 workers, chosen among the Iraqi refugees but also among the ...
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  12 May 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops of neighboring dioceses of Colombia and Venezuela: it is urgent to re-open the border Tachira (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal (Venezuela), His Exc. Mgr. Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez, and the Bishop of the Diocese of Cucuta (Colombia), His Exc. Mgr.Victor Manuel Ochoa, me ...
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  12 May 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cardinal Yeom: "May the compassion of Buddha be granted to our society" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Our society is full of conflict and division. In this difficult moment, I pray that the mercy and compassion of Buddha can be granted in abundance to our society", said Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-j ...
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  12 May 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Presidential and legislative elections: may it be a peaceful and democratic day for the Church Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, His Exc. Mgr. Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez, and the Bishop of Puerto Plata, His Exc. Mgr. Julio Cesar Corniel Amaro, expressed the ho ...
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  12 May 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian cemetery desecrated in Mus Mus (Agenzia Fides) - An historic Armenian cemetery dating back to the eighteenth century was desecrated in Mus, the capital of the Turkish eastern province. The news of the desecration was released yesterday from local ...
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  12 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "There are no mercenaries in my diocese", said the Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no training camp or any mercenary in the territory of the Diocese of Kasenga", says the Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga, Fulgence Muteba Mugalu, in the former province of Katanga, in the sout ...
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  12 May 2016
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Christian school workers take to the streets again for the reform of the Palestine social security system Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - A qualified representation of Christian School staff took part yesterday, Wednesday, May 11, in a new public mobilization, organized in Ramallah, calling for the revision of the Social Security ...
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  12 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protection of human rights: the government must put the National Plan into practice Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pakistani government must allocate the necessary funds and implement the National Action Plan on human rights in Pakistan, announced in February 2016". This is what Catholic Peter Jacob, Dir ...
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  12 May 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Crisis between Gambia and Senegal: the Archbishop of Dakar calls for reconciliation Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Dakar, Mgr. Benjamin Ndiaye, urged the faithful to pray for reconciliation between Senegal and Gambia, during the celebration of the 50th World Day of Social Communications and A ...