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  25 January 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Even the LRA rebels respect Pope Francis Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Even the LRA rebels respect Pope Francis. When a seminarian from St. Andrew parish told Ugandan rebels that their car and the computer was a gift from the Pope, they did not touch it", says to A ...
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  25 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAN - National Director of the PMS: we thank President Rohani and Ayatollah Khamenei for the end of the embargo Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - The end of the embargo against Iran "is for all of us who belong to the Iranian people, a historic event. There is widespread happiness, that embraces all the people, both Muslims and Christians. ...
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  23 January 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Haiti's presidential run-off cancelled amid violent street clashes Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haiti's presidential run-off, scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday, January 24 has been cancelled amid violent street clashes and political uncertainty. The appeal launched by the Episcopal ...
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  23 January 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO DRC - Bishops cancel the march of February 16 to avoid possible political manipulation Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 January, in a letter addressed to all the Bishops in the country, the National Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo (CENCO) announced that it has decided to cancel the ...
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  23 January 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Missionary Childhood Day: missionary children with a generous heart Huesca (Agenzia Fides) - "Can a child be a missionary?" This is the question at the heart of the National Day of Holy Childhood in Spain which will be celebrated tomorrow, Sunday, January 24. "Can a child be a mission ...
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  23 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Ankawa like Las Vegas? Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - In the city of Erbil, capital of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, the process of degradation is filling the suburbs inhabited by Christians with shops for the sale of alcohol, discos, cas ...
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  22 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Christian killed in Punjab Sialkot (Agenzia Fides) – A 50-year-old Christian, Nazir Masih, who worked at the municipal government council building in Sialkot, was busy cleaning the street 7 a.m. on 14 January when unknown gunmen shot him dead w ...
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  22 January 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "Living the Year of Mercy nurturing peace": the feast of the Virgin of Altagrazia, patroness saint of the country Higuey (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Higuey, His Exc. Mgr. Nicanor Peña, President of the Episcopal Conference of the Dominican Republic, asked everyone to transform the country into a homeland where everyone can live ...
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  22 January 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Bishops appeal for the runoff: "Exercise wisdom and dialogue" in an urgent manner Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haitian President Michel Martelly, confirmed yesterday, January 21, that the presidential runoff will however be held next Sunday, January 24, despite protests from the opposition. Martel ...
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  22 January 2016
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A second case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone Kambia (Agenzia Fides) - A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone, the second since west Africa celebrated the end of the epidemic last week. The new case involved a relative of a 22-year-old student who di ...
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  22 January 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Catholic television station to announce the Gospel Toledo (Agenzia Fides) - A new synergy of Catholic communication online, through Diocesan Radiotelevisión of Toledo, which includes Canal de Diocesan TV and Radio Santa María de Toledo, two media of Radio Santa María ...
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  22 January 2016
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Works of charity and pilgrimage in the Year of Mercy Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Living the Year of Mercy in the name of charity work inspired by the Gospel of the Good Samaritan; and making at least one pilgrimage: is the exhortation that His Exc. Mgr. Olivier Schmitthae ...
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  22 January 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Holy Cross, the only Church in the entire World inside a refugee camp Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are two priests here and reaching out to all the faithful is a challenge", said Fr. Augustine Kharmuti, Salesian priest who works in the Holy Cross church, the only Church in the entire worl ...
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  22 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Jihadist leaders fleeing the Nineveh Province Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - While US-led air strikes against the positions of the Islamic State (Daesh) intensify in the area of Mosul and Nineveh Plain, a growing number of military jihadist leaders leave the region, aimed ...
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  22 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Tour of the Patriarchs of the Syro Churches among Lebanese political leaders Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, the two Patriarchs of the Syro-Antiochene Churches - Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II and Syrian Catholic Patriarch Ignace Youssif III - wanted to achieve together a ro ...