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  9 February 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Fifty years of compassion Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Australia, will launch its annual Lenten campaign, "Project Compassion", Australia's largest humanitarian fundraising and awareness-raising campaigns, and will also celebrate its 50 years ...
• 9 February 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 8, 2016, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Shorot Francis Gomes, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Dhaka, Bangladesh,. He was assigned the Titular See of Forma Rev. Shorot ...
• 8 February 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The presidential run-off and the first round of legislative elections to be held on 14 February Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The second round of the Central African presidential elections will be held on Sunday, February 14. The two candidates are Anicet-Georges Dologuélé and Faustin-Archange Touadéra. They both hel ...
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  8 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 18-year-old Coptic girl missing; demonstrations against the scourge of "targeted" kidnappings against Christians Minya (Agenzia Fides) - More than 150 Coptic Christians took part in a sit-in convened last night, Sunday, February 7, in front of the provincial administration office in Minya, to sensitize the authorities and police fo ...
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  8 February 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New inter-community violence in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Clashes continue between the Hutu and Nande communities in the territory of Lubero, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, on Febru ...
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  8 February 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Nazareth is preparing to host the World Day of the Sick Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - The town of Nazareth is preparing to host the World Day of the Sick 2016, an event that will be celebrated in the city of Galilee next Thursday, February 11th. It was Pope Francis who indicated ...
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  8 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian Bishops will discuss the anti-Christian massacres and martyrs of Orissa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) -During their Plenary Assembly, to be held from 2 to 9 March in Bangalore the Indian Bishops will examine and discuss the issue of the persecution of Christians which occurred in Orissa in 2007 ...
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  8 February 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The slow agony of the Wayuu children La Guajira (Agenzia Fides) - The state of abandonment and food insecurity and water supplies for the Wayuu children continues (see Fides 18/12/2015). On December 17th, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR ...
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  8 February 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church is contributing to combatting the Zika virus Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in the Philippines offers its contribution in the effort to combat the spread of the Zika virus in the country, joining the widespread awareness campaign prepared by government authori ...
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  8 February 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Immigrant Lives Matter": a giant sign for the Pope at the border El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - A group of members of the "Border Network for Human Rights", who assist undocumented immigrants, hang a message addressed to Pope Francis, who in coming days will be in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, ...
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  8 February 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - New Year of the Chinese Catholic community in the sign of Mercy Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Being a Catholic is wonderful!" This is the excitement and especially the astonishment of a woman who witnessed the visit of priests and lay people to the sick in hospital, on the eve of the Ch ...
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  8 February 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - A President of transition and elections on April 24 Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - An agreement in extremis was signed on February 6 by President Michel Martelly at the conclusion of his term and by the presidents of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, Jocelerme Privert ...
• 8 February 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Johannesburg Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 6, 2016, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Duncan Theodore Tsoke, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Johannesburg (South Africa). He was assigned the titular see of Orreacel ...
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  6 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Diocese of Samalot is preparing to celebrate the first anniversary of the martyrdom of 21 Copts in Libya Samalot (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Samalot is preparing to celebrate the first anniversary of the martyrdom of 21 Copts killed in Libya by jihadists of the Islamic State (see Fides 16/02/2015). Cele ...
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  6 February 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy: issue for the judiciary and the government Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The issue of the blasphemy law has become a legal issue, rather than religious. Parliament must take this issue seriously. The fight against hate speech becomes impossible to win if there exists ...