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  28 January 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Is there a real political will to defeat the LRA?" asks the Bishop of Bossangoa Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The LRA rebels continue to enslave villagers, making them load carriers and sex slavesand they are also burning down villages", says His Exc. Mgr. Nestor Desire Nongo-Aziagbia, Bishop Bossangoa ...
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  28 January 2016
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Jubilee Year, fruitful time for interreligious dialogue Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Let yourself be touched by the grace of God to have a heart open towards others, in a frank and friendly atmosphere: is what His Exc. Mgr. Olivier Schmitthaeusler, Vicar Apostolic of Phnom Pe ...
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  28 January 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Discovery of a church which dates back to the fourth century in Cappadocia with precious frescoes on the life of Christ Nevsehir (Agenzia Fides) - Archaeological excavations in the underground city discovered in 2012 in the city of Nevsehir, in the historical region of Cappadocia, have brought to light an underground church carved into th ...
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  28 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Ten Coptic workers in prison for having built an "illegal" wall Samalout (Agenzia Fides) - Ten Coptic men were arrested while they were building a fence wall for the Coptic church in the village of Abu Hennis, near the city of Salamout, in the governorate of Minya. The news was repor ...
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  27 January 2016
  ASIA/ISRAEL - The Jewish of the Menhir Tag group pay homage to the desecrated cemetery in Beit Jamal Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - A group of more than sixty Jews wanted to express their conviction and shock at the desecration of the Salesian cemetery in Beit Jamal and paid homage to the cemetery where last December serio ...
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  27 January 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Twenty new priests and thirty deacons will be ordained in Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Korea, which thrives in vocations to priesthood, will be enriched with 20 new priests: Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul, will ordain 20 priests on February 5. Given ...
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  27 January 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Country is at risk of a humanitarian health crisis Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The shortage of medicines and equipment in medical institutions in the Country and the deterioration of public hospitals continues to endanger the health and lives of Venezuelans. The National A ...
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  27 January 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - President Macri meets the local Church:"Cura Brochero is an example of Argentina we want" Villa Brochero (Agenzia Fides) - The closing Mass of the annual "Brocheriana Week", celebrated yesterday, Tuesday, 26 January, was an opportunity to meet newly-elected President Mauricio Macri with the main representativ ...
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  27 January 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishop of Garissa: "We offer education to Christians and Muslims to overcome divisions" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Education is an essential tool to overcome religious, tribal and political barriers, as well as being an essential element for human development. This is what His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Alexander says ...
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  27 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lawyers threatened: they defend a Christian accused of blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two lawyers who offer their professional services at the NGO Pakistani "Lead" (Legal Evangelical Association and Development) were stopped in the street and threatened by unknown people on their ...
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  27 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The alarm of Archbishop Hindo: Deir el Zor is starving Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - In neighborhoods and suburbs of the Syrian city of Deir al Zor, under siege by the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh), at least 120 thousand Syrian civilians are starving. The alarm was lau ...
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  27 January 2016
  AFRICA / SUDAN - Five thousand newly displaced in the capital of West Darfur El Geneina (Agenzia Fides) - The Government Commission for Humanitarian Aid (HAC) and the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) have estimated that, since January 10, 5000 people displaced from Mouli and surrounding villa ...
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  27 January 2016
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Cameroonian military claim successes against Boko Haram but are accused of massacres against civilians in Nigeria Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - The Cameroonian authorities announced they had inflicted "heavy losses" on Nigerian Boko Haram extremists who perpetrated a fourfold suicide bombing on January 25 in the town of Bodo, in the far ...
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  26 January 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Inequality, discrimination and poverty for indigenous peoples Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Indigenous peoples "need justice and recognition", stresses the editorial of the magazine of the Archdiocese of Mexico City. "They are often blocked by incomprehension and populism; they are ...
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  26 January 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Ecumenical prayer during the Week for Christian Unity Semerang (Agenzia Fides) - In the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the Archdiocese of Semarang (Central Java) invited the Pastors of different Protestant churches to an ecumenical celebration that brought together Cat ...