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  19 October 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Elections: the high turnout of Christians Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of institutions and religious communities launched several appeals to urge people not to boycott the polls and participate in parliamentary elections. Among the appeals there is al ...
• 17 October 2015
  VATICAN - World Mission Day: Catholic Church Statistics 2015 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, this year celebrated on Sunday, October 18, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panorama of the missionary Church all o ...
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  16 October 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Thousands of faithful at the closing celebrations of the Teresian Jubilee Avila (Agenzia Fides) - The V centenary of the birth of Saint Teresa of Jesus ended yesterday, Thursday, October 15, with the Holy Mass celebrated in the Great Market of Avila (Spain) by the President of the Spanish Epis ...
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  16 October 2015
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - 115 institutions ready to accept refugees Lisbon (Agenzia Fides) - There are 115 institutions that are willing to accept refugees, according to information revealed by the first General Assembly of the support platform for Refugees (PAR). The High Commissioner f ...
• 16 October 2015
  VATICAN - The Missionary Rosary for World Mission Day and the 50th anniversary of the "Ad Gentes" decree Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The students of the Pontifical Urban College, St. Peter, St. Paul and Mater Ecclesiae, run by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Pontifical Mission Societies, which ...
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  16 October 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Protestant Pastor killed in Jharkhand Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - A Protestant Pastor was killed in the state of Jharkhand, eastern India. As reported to Fides by the Evangelical Fellowship network of India, Chamu Hasda Purty, 54, of the Independent Pentecosta ...
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  16 October 2015
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC -"Learn to live with mutual respect": tension between Haiti and Dominican Republic decreases Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting on Tuesday, October 14 between Dominican President Danilo Medina and the Haitian President Michel Martelly took place at the right time and helped "prevent further hatred betwe ...
• 16 October 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Fifty Christians in Qaryatayn held hostage by jihadists have been released Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - At least fifty Christians in Qaryatayn taken hostage last August by jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) were released on Sunday 11 October, and were able to return to the villages of Zaydal ...
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  16 October 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Caritas Jerusalem: pilgrimages cancelled due to the blocks in the neighborhoods of the Holy City Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - All the security measures which have taken place by the Israeli authorities in Jerusalem - especially those inside the Old City - are causing the cancellation of pilgrimages, "which means the ...
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  16 October 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The redemption of rights: day for the eradication of poverty Seville (Agenzia Fides) - On October 17 in Andalucía, as in the rest of Spain and the world people and organizations will mobilize to collect and launch proposals for Human Rights, in order to have a sustainable world, ...
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  15 October 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Over 1400 cases of blasphemy in a year Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In 2014, 1,400 cases of blasphemy were registered in Pakistan: it is a peak, compared with the trend of recent years, which reveals a very worrying situation. This was reported by senior lawyer ...
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  15 October 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New arrests and violence against Christians for alleged blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The arrests of Christians falsely accused of blasphemy continues. According to new cases one of the victims is the young Christian Naveed John, 24, accused and arrested in Sargodha, Punjab. Ac ...
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  15 October 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Religious leaders and Shimon Peres against sectarian violence Tel Aviv (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of different faith communities and religious traditions met former Israeli President Shimon Peres to talk about the escalation of violence that is bloodying the Holy Land again. The ...
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  15 October 2015
  EUROPE/SERBIA - Rigid temperatures and difficult conditions for refugees Presevo (Agenzia Fides) - According to data collected by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), at the end of September the number of people emigrated between Turkey and Greece reached 7,000 a day. The rough ...
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  15 October 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Spanish missionary in Ecuador turns 100 on World Mission Day Los Rios (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Bittor Garaygordobil, Bishop Emeritus of Los Ríos (Ecuador), one of the first eight missionary priests of the Basque dioceses of Spain, on October 17 turns 100 on the eve of Worl ...