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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 ...
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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 ...