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  6 November 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appeal for tolerance and respect for human rights during elections Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "There are concerns that the election results will serve to highlight growing ethnic and religious divides in Burma and that a new, democratic government will be hamstrung when it comes to ending ...
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  6 November 2015
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - On Saturday, November 7, 2015: the Country will be declared "Ebola free" Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, November 7 after 1 year and 5 months, Sierra Leone will be declared Ebola free, considered the largest epidemic in history: 14,061 cases registered and 3,955 deaths in the Country. ...
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  6 November 2015
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Necessity to adequately address the reality of climate change Boyarshing (Agenzia Fides) - The village of Boyarshing, about 300 km southwest of the capital, Dhaka is plagued with water woes. Women queue for hours with their vessels at the only public tap, in a line that moves agoni ...
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  6 November 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Arizmendi inaugurates a house of the migrant in Tuxtla Gutierrez Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) - On November 3, the Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas, His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, inaugurated a house to welcome migrants. The house will be a reference point for ...
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  6 November 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Son of a Protestant pastor kidnapped New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The son of a Protestant pastor was kidnapped in the Indian state of Andra Pradesh. According to preliminary police investigations, 20-year-old Issac was kidnapped by Maoist groups. So far, the ...
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  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Burundi threatens the risk of a civil war Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We directly live the concerns expressed by the international community on the situation in our Country, because every day we see the bodies of people killed during the night here in Bujumbura ...
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  6 November 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Bishops: no to the division of Syria Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The prospect of a division of Syria on a sectarian basis worries the Maronite Bishops, who propose to look to the institutional model of Lebanon to try to neutralize the centrifugal sectarian for ...
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  6 November 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Middle East Council of Churches: unify the date for the Easter celebrations Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The path for the Promotion of Christian Unity also involves the adoption of concrete measures such as a common date for the Easter celebrations. This is what was reported in the final declaration ...
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  5 November 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Catholic Bishops: more confessors in the Shrines for the Holy Year of Mercy Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The pilgrims who come to Holy Land during the upcoming Year of the Holy Mercy will have better access to the sacrament of confession in churches and shrines scattered in the land where Jesus l ...
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  5 November 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Even Christians demonstrate in Erbil against the law on the Islamization of minors Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, November 4 hundreds of people belonging to the non-Islamic components of Iraqi society demonstrated in front of UN representatives in Erbil to protest against the law that allows t ...
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  5 November 2015
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Eight hundred children in feast: they will not study any more in the rain or under the hot sun Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Work has begun to rebuild two new classrooms in the Primary School '19 de Outubro of Ngalunde, 42 km from Maputo, district of Marracuene. The news of the great feast, which involved all the 800 p ...
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  5 November 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Mining company withdraws from La Rioja: statement of the Bishop and the Deputy Governor La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - The mining company MIDAIS withdraws from Angulos, Department in Famatina in La Rioja (Argentina). This was officially announced by the Bishop of the Diocese of La Rioja, His Exc. Mgr. Marcelo D ...
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  5 November 2015
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "Voting is a pilgrimage of hope" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - While we are experiencing "a crucial moment in the history of Myanmar", in the last days before the vote "there is the need to remain vigilant. We hope that these elections are carried out in a t ...
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  5 November 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A year ago a Christian couple was burned alive: today new life for their children Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A year ago, on November 4, 2014, an episode generated a wave of horror in Pakistan, shocking the whole world: a Christian couple Shama and Shahzad Masih were thrown in a brick kiln by a crowd of ...
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  5 November 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops' appeal for peace: "Dialogue with everyone, even with organized crime" Guerrero (Agenzia Fides) - The four Bishops of the dioceses of Guerrero State have asked the government to "talk" with organized crime in order to reverse the serious situation of insecurity and violence that exists in t ...