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  14 January 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Religious minorities: salaries for the clergy are to be paid directly by the State Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - A request to pay salaries to religious minority communities directly by the State was made to Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu. This was reported by Agos magazine, the bilingual newspaper ...
• 14 January 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Resignation of the Bishop of Mannar and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 14 January 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Mannar (Sri Lanka), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Rayappu, in accordance with can. 4 ...
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  14 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic Paul Bhatti hopes for the revocation of the blasphemy law Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign for the abolition of the blasphemy law in Pakistan sees Catholic Paul Bhatti in the forefront, brother of Shahbaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities killed on March 2, 2011, and form ...
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  14 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Youhanna X: Orthodox Churches must safeguard unity, avoiding divisions Balamand (Agenzia Fides) - Orthodox Churches must safeguard unity, avoiding divisions and rifts. Only in this way the great pan-Orthodox Synod scheduled in 2016 will be a good opportunity to provide a united witness to t ...
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  14 January 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Meeting street children is like meeting Christ Nagpur (Agenzia Fides) - Meeting, visiting, assisting street children means encountering Christ: this is what a group of young Catholics in Nagpur, a city in central India experienced when they went in search of street c ...
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  14 January 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Arizmendi in the face of popular protests: "We cannot be indifferent to the suffering of families" San Cristóbal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas, His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, has agreed to mediate in the conflict in the Mexican town of Altos de Chiapa ...
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  14 January 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Indigenous people, poor people, young people and migrants: "the new faces of the excluded" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Social Pastoral Caritas in Chile, a body of the Episcopal Conference, presented the document "Equity and development in Chile: the new faces of the exc ...
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  13 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Tensions between Kurds and Christians in the province of Hassake Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions between Kurds and Christians increase in the Syrian region of northeastern Jiazira, where we find the cities of Qamishli and Hassaké and where large areas of land are in the hands of ...
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  13 January 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Less trade, more spirituality in the Church Lingayen (Agenzia Fides) - The Church has to deal with spiritual and pastoral matters, and not give the idea of being a commercial enterprise: with this in mind the Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, north of Mani ...
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  13 January 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Archbishop Lahham: in the Middle East torn by sectarianism, the mission of Christian schools is even more valuable Amman (Agenzia Fides) - In the historical life of the Churches in the Middle East, there has always been a valuable role carried out by Christian schools especially in the present scenario ravaged by sectarian conflict. ...
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  13 January 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Dialogue between Vishnus and Christians Tirupati (Agenzia Fides) - In India there is need to bear witness to the power of prayer combined with action to build a community of peace and harmony: this is the result of the recent session of dialogue between Christ ...
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  13 January 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops call for an end to the expulsion of illegal immigrants Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of the United States has asked the government in recent weeks to end deportation raids of Central American families without valid documents. According to information ...
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  13 January 2016
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Alert for the spread of the zika virus among pregnant women San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Following the declaration of the local Ministry of Health of the state of alert in 47 municipalities of 11 departments in the Country due to the presence of the vector that transmits the zi ...
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  13 January 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Mgr. Peña Rodríguez’s appeal for the elections: "Do not choose people without morals" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Dominican Episcopal Conference, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez, Bishop of the Diocese of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey, called on the Do ...
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  13 January 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Health care for nomads and the poor in East Darfur Ed Daein (Agenzia Fides) - The Zakat Chamber in eastern Darfur has announced the launch of programs and health care assistance for nomads by the end of January, with the goal of providing the best services to the poorest ...