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  2 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic priest and three lay people beaten New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Conviction for the serious gesture, solidarity with the victims, need for an immediate investigation: is what Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, President of the Bishops' Conference of India asks for, ...
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  2 February 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Encouraging pastoral evaluation for Catholic communities Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - Consolidate faith and incentivize spiritual life, especially sacramental life in this Year of Mercy, promote evangelization through the witness of life, renew the parish council, promote ...
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  2 February 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A Bishop: "The new Parliament, a positive step" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "The opening session of the new Parliament is a very positive step. We are living a constructive atmosphere in politics and society. We are going in the right direction, marked by transparency, d ...
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  2 February 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - After 30 years the trial of two members of the military accused of crimes against humanity begins Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - More than 30 years have passed before two members of the army, suspected of being involved in a case of sexual and domestic slavery of women of ethnic Maya-keqchí in northern Guatemala, ...
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  2 February 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - People are willing to walk even 10 kilometers, and under any weather condition to go to Mass Duque Caxias (Agenzia Fides) - "I came back a few days ago from the experience of the 'Youth Mission' in Rondonia in northwestern Brazil. An initiative promoted by the Youth Ministry of the Diocese of Niteroy (Rio de Jan ...
• 1 February 2016
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Appointment of the Bishop of Dili Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 January 2016, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. Virgilio Do Carmo Da Silva, S.D.B., Provincial Superior of the Salesians in East Timor as Bishop of Dili (East Timor). The newly-elec ...
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  1 February 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Missionary Symposium, 25 years after COMLA 4, preparations for CAM 5 begin Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Fourth Latin American Missionary Congress (COMLA IV), which was held in Lima, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Peru have prom ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The whole community in Nguluwe at work to renovate the school Chipata (Agenzia Fides) - The holiday season and the rains which have just begun have not disturbed the renovation of the school in Nguluwe carried out by skilled workers, made available by the Chipata DEBS - District Ed ...
• 1 February 2016
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Emile Descombes, Bishop who taught to have trust in God Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "We remain, whatever happens". These are the words that Father Emile wrote on 8 April 1975 a few days before the entry of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh. Emile was there, among the people wh ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - After the decision of AU not to send a peacekeeping force: "We are disappointed but we do not lose hope" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The decision of the African Union (AU) not to send a peacekeeping force in Burundi was disappointing, but all is not lost" local sources told Agenzia Fides from Burundi, who for security reas ...
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  1 February 2016
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Lessons at the new Catholic Institute of Vietnam begin Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - The newborn "Catholic Institute of Vietnam", the first Catholic institution at university level in the country, opens its doors and welcomes its first students in September 2016: is wha ...
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  1 February 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Mgr. Ulloa visits political prisoners Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Panama, His Exc. Mgr. José Domingo Ulloa, visited the headquarters of the National Police in Ancon, the so-called political prisoners held under the current administration of P ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic professor sentenced for insulting Islam: His students mocked jihadist barbarism Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The court of Beni Mazar sentenced a Coptic teacher on charges of insulting Islam, to three years in prison. The episode happened last spring, at a village school in Nasiriyya, near the town of Ben ...
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  1 February 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Israeli High Court rejects the appeals to stop the "Cremisan Wall" Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli High Court rejected the appeals that had been presented to counter the resumption of the construction of the "wall of division" in the Cremisan Valley. The appeals were presented b ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishop of Maiduguri: "The assault and the massacre in the village of Dalori is a challenge to the army" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a challenge to the army of Nigeria", says to Agenzia Fides, His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, in northern Nigeria, near which lies the village o ...