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  29 February 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “Life is impossible in the present situation of total indifference on the part of the authorities”Bishop Escobar exclaims Upper Paraguay (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Gabriel Escobar, in charge of the Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco, has urged the people living in Upper Paraguay to be more insistent in calling the authorities to fulfil their ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Children taught to be responsible at school Singapore (Agenzia Fides) – People in Asian countries are increasingly aware of the necessity of helping minors be aware of daily responsibilities . At school, besides learning to read and write, and study history, pro ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Number of Christians in the Gaza Strip continues to dwindle Gaza (Agenzia Fides) – The small Christian presence in Gaza Strip continues to dwindle: in recent months at least thirty young people decided to leave the land in which they were born to emigrate and funeral services ...
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  29 February 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops call for: “Rural developemtn and ethics to build a new post-conflict Colombia ” Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – "We are highly concerned about the situation in rural areas … point nne of the peace agreement opens a window for a policy of comprehensive agricultural development ": said the Catholic Bi ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Government annunces new measure to curb corrupt state works abetting fraud to the damage of Iraqi Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) –State workers abetting property to the damage of Christians will be severely punished with temporary suspension or definitive dismissal. This was announced in a television interview by the ...
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  29 February 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Civil society calls for international enquiry into massaccres in the area of i Beni Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Terrorists belonging to ADF-Nalu group enjoy complicity in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the part of “uncontrolled elements of Ugandan army and security forces ”. This was affirmed ...
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  29 February 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “Ellos me importan”: I care about them : campaign for child protection Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Protection and schooling for children should be a priority all over the world. Nevertheless more than 17,000 boys and girls die every day of preventable causes; 27 million are refugees or displa ...
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  29 February 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Execution of Qadri, the killer of governor Taseer Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) – Mumtaz Qadri, bodyguard and killer of the governor of Punjab Salmaan Taseer, assassinated 4 January 2011, was hanged this morning in Adiala prison, under massive security measures. After t ...
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  29 February 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Opposition disappointed with African Union visit Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Organise, as soon as possible, “inclusive dialogue” with all the “major actors” in the crisis, under the aegis contested (at home) of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. This was the im ...
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  26 February 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops' message: "Day of the Paraguayan woman" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops of Paraguay greet all women on their day and remember the historical role they had and continue to have in the building of society and culture": this is how the message of the Epis ...
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  26 February 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - "Let us help them Grow": campaign to donate school supplies to vulnerable children Lima (Agenzia Fides) - By People, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting people with cancer, has urged the population to provide school supplies to patients of the National Institute for Neoplasia (INEM) and H ...
• 26 February 2016
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Leopold Kropfreiter Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 13, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Leopold Kropfreiter of the Servants of Jesus and Mary, SJM as Nat ...
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  26 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian court sentences 4 Coptic Christians to 5 years in prison after they mock Isis beheadings Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian court in Minya issued a heavy sentence against four Coptic students accused of contempt of Islam after mimicking an Islamic State (Isis) beheading video of a Muslim faithful who was p ...
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  26 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A website on the martyrs of Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A website to describe the ordeal that the survivors of anti-Christian massacres in Orissa still live at a social, judicial, religious level: is the initiative launched by a group of activist ...
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  26 February 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Door open to mercy, recalling the 150th anniversary of the persecution of Byeong-in Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 February 1866 the greatest persecution of the history of the Korean Church began: about 9,000 people, almost half of the total Catholic population at that time, were killed for their faith. ...