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  24 February 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - A month after the oil spill in Inayo, the Church calls for urgent action Inayo (Agenzia Fides) - On 25 January there was a first oil spill, followed shortly after by another, in Inayo, in the Amazon region of northern Peru, from the pipeline that crosses the province of Bagua. A month after t ...
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  24 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Sarathi Jhalak: Community radio which every morning allows citizens to speak Anugondanahalli (Agenzia Fides) - Every morning, a group of Indian farmers of Anugondanahalli village are huddled around Sarathi Jhalak, a community radio station that broadcasts a program on climate change. The group of ...
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  24 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscans: "In the Jubilee Year, freedom for a thousand prisoners" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Free a thousand prisoners, detained for minor offenses in Indian jails, granting them a special "pardon" in the Jubilee Year: is what the Indian Franciscans submit to the government, hoping th ...
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  24 February 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Tension for minorities and missionaries heavily guarded Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Tension remains high in Banglasdesh, and the necessary monitoring of the missionary life "is causing some consequences on the exercise of the ministry", says a note from the Pontifical Institute f ...
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  24 February 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Letter of the 3 Bishops of Chocó to the President to demand adequate health care Quibdo (Agenzia Fides) - The three Colombian dioceses of Quibdo, Istmina-Tado and Apartado and 68 social organizations of Chocó department, sent a letter to the President of the Republic, Juan Manuel Santos, to complain ...
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  24 February 2016
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - Catholic women of Southern Africa for the promotion of migrants' rights Maseru (Agenzia Fides) - The inter regional meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa through its Social Department recently organised a Human Rights Centred Migration Management capacity building workshop to promote the obs ...
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  24 February 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A new report highlights the plight of Nigerian Christians Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Between 9,000 to 11,500 Christians killed; Since 2000 at least 1.3 million Christians are now internally displaced or forced to move elsewhere; 13,000 churches have been destroyed or forced to clo ...
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  24 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Grand Imam of al-Azhar: What will the heads of Churches in the US that accept gay marriage say to Jesus? Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The West is spreading homosexuality, and "unfortunately some Heads of Churches in the United States accept same-sex marriages. I wonder what is left of the Bible in those Churches. And what will ...
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  24 February 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Mayor of Selciuk relaunches: we will build the biggest statue of the Virgin Mary in the world Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish Mayor Zeynel Bakici, at the head of the town of Selcuk – where there is the archaeological site of the ancient city of Ephesus - has relauched plans to build the tallest statue in the ...
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  23 February 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The Bishops: "We must be vigilant on our democracy" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Dominican Episcopal Conference issued a message on Independence Day, February 27th, with the title "Upcoming elections and other urgent matters" ("Próximas elecciones y otras urgencia ...
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  23 February 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Young people of different religions together invoke harmony and peace Semarang (Agenza Fides) – Get to know each other, share experiences, pray together and invoke harmony and peace in Indonesia: with this spirit young people of all religious communities came together in recent days at H ...
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  23 February 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Cathedral of Colon reopens, the living reality of the population’s faith Colon (Agenzia Fides) - After more than five years, one of the most important places of worship and religious monuments of the Panamanian province of Colon reopens its doors to thousands of faithful: we are talking about ...
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  23 February 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - "The victory of Museveni is to be contested in Ugandan courts before turning to international ones", says an eminent jurist Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "Even a stolen election is not an excuse for violence": is the appeal launched by Julia Sebutinde, a judge of the International Court of Justice, after outgoing President Yoweri Museveni was dec ...
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  23 February 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Other 43 Assyrian Christians of the Khabur valley released by jihadists Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - The jihadists affiliated to the self-styled Islamic State (Daesh) have released 43 other Assyrian Christians of the group of about 250 people who had been taken from the Christian villages of t ...
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  23 February 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - All the Bishops of the American continent represented in Tampa Tampa (Agenzia Fides) - The 40th meeting of the Bishops of the Catholic Church in America will take place in Tampa, Florida, from 22 to 25 February, with the presidencies of the United States Conference of Catholic Bisho ...