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  22 January 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - Concern in the country for the arrival of two former Guantanamo detainees Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Two Catholic lay groups have issued statements in support of the Ghana catholic Bishops’ Conference’s (GCBC) call on Government to do all it could to send the two Guantanamo detainees back to ...
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  21 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The "Justice and Peace" Commission: "The government has to protect educational institutions" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The attack on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda has been strongly condemned. The attack, claimed by the Taliban organization "Tehrik-i- Pakistan" caused the death of 21 people and 60 others ...
• 21 January 2016
  VATICAN - To Fides readers Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the new year, our Agency presents its new website, which aims to make information more accessible and useful to those who want to expand their interests on the wide hori ...
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  21 January 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Violence fruit of revenge: 10 executions in 24 hours in the state of Guerrero Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the dioceses of the Mexican state of Guerrero agree that the origin of the climate of violence in the state are to be found in anger and the population’s desire for revenge, ex ...
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  21 January 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops: "Pray for our fallen soldiers in Somalia and we hope for the return of peace" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We stand in solidarity with our men and women in uniform who are carrying out their service in neighboring Somalia and those who, for their selfless service to our country, have paid the ultima ...
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  21 January 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Vicaría de la Solidaridad": for 40 years has been defending human rights by repression and violence Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In Chile, 40 years ago, the Vicariate of Solidarity ("Vicaría de la Solidaridad") was created, and its first executive Secretary, lawyer Javier Luis Egaña, remembers the difficult job of huma ...
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  21 January 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Two suspects for acts of sectarian vandalism against the Dormition church have been arrested Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Two days after the discovery of anti-Christian writtings on the walls of the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion (see Fides 18/01/2016), the Israeli police have announced that it has stopped two sus ...
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  21 January 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Minors exploited for the extraction of cobalt Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of children who live in extreme poverty continue to be abused and exploited in exchange for a paltry remuneration. We are talking about children who are employed in the mines in the D ...
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  21 January 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Violence against the indigenous: a boy killed, the Bishops call for "a serious investigation" Davao (Agenzia Fides) - Pain and closeness to the family; a serious investigation to establish the facts; the end of abuses on indigenous peoples: it what the "Commission for Indigenous Peoples" of the Episcopal Conferen ...
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  21 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - The President of Caritas Lebanon: the Maronite Church supports any serious attempt to get out of the institutional crisis Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Maronite Church "does not support a presidential candidate over another, but is in favor of any serious solution to enable the Country to emerge from the institutional paralysis and finally e ...
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  21 January 2016
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Importance to achieve the second reason of the 2011 revolution: economic development" Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "We have the impression that protests are beginning again due to the second reason of the 2011 revolution: the economic one", says Fr. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Soc ...
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  20 January 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Launch of the new three-year campaign against hunger Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The NGO of the Spanish Catholic Church “Manos Unidas”, which deals with development, is launching a new annual campaign against hunger: “Plántale cara al hambre: siembra". In addition, o ...
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  20 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syrian Orthodox Patriarch organizes a meeting with diplomats in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – His Beatitude Mar Ignatius Aphrem II, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, organized a reception to mark the start of the new year where all the diplomats accredited to the Arab Republic of ...
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  20 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Assault on a university: churches and civil society against terrorism Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) – A group of Islamist Taliban militants stormed a university in northwestern Pakistan this morning, killing indiscriminately students and professors, in classrooms and hostels. After the interv ...
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  20 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The coalition raid on Mosul devastates a church Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - On the night between Monday 18 and Tuesday, January 19, the air strikes carried out by the international coalition of Mosul - conquered in June 2014 by jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) - hit ...