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  12 October 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Father Jihad (Community of Deir Mar Musa): we thank Christians and Muslims who prayed for the release of father Murad Homs (Agenzia Fides) - "We are grateful to the Lord and give praise to the merciful God for this gift. And we thank all the friends in the world who prayed for Jacques and for our monastic community, Christians, Muslims ...
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  10 October 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Church: it is urgent to save abandoned children and adolescents who have disappeared Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Save the abandoned children and look into the disturbing phenomenon of missing teenagers" is the appeal launched by the Conference of Bishops of Brazil who officially opened the campaign "Let' ...
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  10 October 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in Erbil protest against corruption, "our neighborhoods are being filled with infamous clubs" Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Iraqi Christians, inhabitants of Ankawa, a suburb in Erbil, participated in a peaceful demonstration on Friday, October 9 to protest against corruption and degradation that are making ...
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  10 October 2015
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishops: "Stop the crime against people accused of black magic" Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - In Papua New Guinea, the Catholic Church has convened a special meeting at the end of the month to address the issue of crimes and murders against persons suspected of having practiced blac ...
• 10 October 2015
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Presidential elections create tension Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - 6 million Guineans are called to the polls on Sunday, October 11, to elect a new President. The last phase of the election campaign was marred by accidents, also severe, with victims and wounde ...
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  9 October 2015
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Catholic Church and Public Health together against dengue Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) has launched an alert in the Sánchez Ramírez province, in particular in the municipality of Cotuí, due to the high percentage of dengue cases which a ...
• 9 October 2015
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Nobel Peace Prize: "Tunisia shows that democracy is possible in the Arab Muslim world" Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "We are happy because it is a recognition and encouragement to Tunisian democracy" said to Agenzia Fides Fr. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Tunisia, comment ...
• 9 October 2015
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Scalabrini Fest 2015: migration characterizes the history of humanity Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - "Many of the issues that now occupy the top positions in the international debate on migration also existed in the past, which saw this phenomenon in constant evolution. Migration, in fact, ch ...
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  9 October 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Tentorio's murder is "a blood stain on justice" Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - Four years after the killing of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME missionary who was shot dead on October 17, 2011 in Kidapawan on the island of Mindanao, the case remains unsolved and investigations ...
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  9 October 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Nuncio Diquattro representative of the Holy See at the World Conference on Climate Change La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, Apostolic Nuncio in Bolivia, was appointed representative of the Holy See at the Second World Conference on Climate Change, to be held from 10 to 12 October 201 ...
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  9 October 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Cardinal Pimiento: "Vote-buying is a crime" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jose de Jesus Pimiento invoked consistency in discussions for a peace agreement between the government and FARC, warning about the lack of justice, truth and irreparable errors. The note ...
• 9 October 2015
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Archbishop of Conakry: "Sunday's elections: a test of democracy and political maturity" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "Our Country is about to undergo a revealing test of its level of political maturity", said His Exc. Mgr. Vincent Coulibaly, Archbishop of Conakry, in a message for the presidential elections to ...
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  9 October 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Organizations call on President al-Sisi to reopen the investigation into the massacre of Maspero Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – After four years of the so-called massacre of Maspero, the Copts of Egypt Coalition - independent organization of the Coptic Orthodox Church, but animated by militant lay Copts - has asked Presi ...
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  9 October 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Two Iraqi sisters go and live among the Christian refugees camped in Erbil Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The two Little Sisters of Charles de Foucauld are called Afnan and Alice and have chosen to live in a camp in Ankawa, on the outskirts of Erbil, where thousands of Christians of the Nineveh Plain, ...
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  8 October 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bible in Tzotzil language, completed the work desired by more than 350,000 faithful Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) – With a Mass in Tzotzil language, the completion of the translation of the Bible in Tzotzil language was celebrated in the indigenous community of Zinacantan, after 25 years of work in 59 commu ...