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  18 February 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - A Rosary and the "Misericordiae Vultus" sent by the Pope for the "hermit Bishop" Jounieh (Agenzia Fides) - Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai in recent days paid a visit to the convent of Our Lady of Tamiche, between Beirut and Jounieh, to meet with Maronite Bishop Charbel Merhi, who now lives in ...
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  18 February 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Presidential elections - the Bishops: "attention to dictatorial tendencies" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – The polls open today, 18 February, in Uganda for the presidential and parliamentary elections. President Yoweri Museveni, in power for 30 years, is given as favorite. The Ugandan Bishops in t ...
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  18 February 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "Surprise" visits of the President to the poorest people living in the countryside continue San Francisco (Agenzia Fides) - A gesture of sensitivity, love and solidarity towards the poor who live in the countryside: this is how His Exc. Mgr. Fausto Ramón Mejía Vallejo, Bishop of San Francisco de Macoris, defi ...
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  18 February 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Political differences should never be resolved with violence", 6 deaths in the municipality of El Alto El Alto (Agenzia Fides) - The Defensoria del Popolo (Office for Human Rights) and the Catholic Church have called for a transparent investigation with regards to the serious incident that occurred yesterday, February 17, ...
• 18 February 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - Resignation of the Bishop of Wa and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 February 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Wa (Ghana), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Paul Bemile, in accordance with can. 401 § 1 of ...
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  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Resignation of the Bishop of Chinhoyi and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 February 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Dieter Bernd Scholz, S.I., in accordance ...
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  17 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Donating blood is an act of mercy Secunderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Donating blood as an act of mercy and compassion, to be rediscovered in the Jubilee Year: with this intention the "Catholic Health Association of India" (CHAI) organizes sessions of "blood ...
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  17 February 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop's warning: "The “drumbeats of war” are becoming louder as the country heads to the general elections" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The inciting comments by politicians is a common phenomenon that occurs before tribal clashes erupt, we must stop that", said His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Korir, Bishop of Eldoret and President of t ...
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  17 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Grand Imam al Tayyeb invited to the Vatican to relaunch dialogue between the University of Al Azhar and the Holy See Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Sheikh Ahmed al Tayyeb, Grand Imam of al-Azhar University, received an invitation to visit the Vatican to officially sanction the resumption of bilateral dialogue between the Holy See and the most ...
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  17 February 2016
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Cardinal Filoni at the conference on the religious aspects of migration in Europe Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - "I think that a knowledge of the history of Christianity in the Middle-East - today Iraq – is not some idle cultural extravaganza, but rather an approach that allows one to understand the rea ...
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  17 February 2016
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Vaccination campaign against yellow fever in the capital Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – Due to a yellow fever epidemic that is spreading in Luanda, the Bishop representative of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the World (Tocoista), urged all Angolan families to adhere to the ...
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  17 February 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "It will take time and a lot of good will to restore peace" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The South Sudanese say that we have reached the end of the line, zero point, but in fact we are less than zero, because what is destroyed is lost", say to Agenzia Fides local sources from Juba, ca ...
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  17 February 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa calls to conversion: "Need to defend the lives of all people and promote common good" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, urged "in the name of God", to "fight for the defense of life of all people, to promote the common good, leaving aside personal interests or i ...
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  17 February 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bolivians to vote for the referendum that amends the duration of the presidential term La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Next Sunday, February 21, Bolivians will vote for the referendum on the reform of Article 168 of the Constitution of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, regarding the Presidential and Vice-Presid ...
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  17 February 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian and Muslim children "ambassadors of peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Children are the hope of society and the first messengers of peace and harmony, starting from families and schools: in this spirit the "Council for Interreligious Dialogue", based in Lahore, form ...