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15 January 2019
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Central African Bishops denounce: "Some UN contingents do not protect civilians"
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - There are contingents of the Blue Helmets of the UN Mission in Central Africa (MINUSCA) who do not do their duty to protect civilians. This is the accusation launched by the Central African Bisho ...
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15 January 2019
AMERICA/PERU - The work of the Assembly of Bishops begins: "Synodality belongs to the whole Church"
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - 49 Peruvian Bishops yesterday inaugurated their 113th Plenary Assembly with a Mass celebrated in the parish of San Antonio de Padua, district of Jesus Maria, in Lima. Mgr. Miguel Cabrejos, Archbish ...
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15 January 2019
AFRICA/EGYPT - Churches closed under pressure from Islamists in Minya. Coptic jurists denounce the local authorities of connivance with sectarianism
Minya (Agenzia Fides) - Some Coptic jurists have denounced the governor of Minya province before the attorney general about the facts that in recent days have led to the closure of a Coptic place of worship in the villag ...
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14 January 2019
AFRICA/NIGER - A missionary: "We do not know where Fr. Maccalli is, we live in a climate of insecurity"
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we live in a climate of insecurity that reigns on the border area with Burkina Faso. Almost every week, there are armed attacks that mainly target the military and law enforcement agencies ...
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14 January 2019
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Archbishop of San Salvador: no to the privatization of water, unjust fiscal and pension system
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar, invited Salvadorans to vote responsibly in the presidential elections on 3 February. "Very soon there will be elections, and we must ...
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14 January 2019
AFRICA - Crisis in Togo and Gabon: the Bishops denounce violence and invite them to dialogue
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The events that we are experiencing in our Country at a political and social level do not leave us indifferent. Violence against people, the wounded, prisoners and the dead that marked the period ...
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14 January 2019
AMERICA/BRAZIL - WYD in Panama, an opportunity make the Amazon and the Amazonian face of young Brazilians known
Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - Panama will host the World Youth Day (WYD) from 22 to 27 January. One of the participants is Aylla Emanuele Silveira, a young 21-year-old woman who will represent the Magis House of Manaus and ha ...
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14 January 2019
ASIA/INDIA - 10 years after the anti-Christian violence in Orissa, victims await compensation
Kandhamal (Agenzia Fides) - About 3,000 survivors of the anti-Christian massacres in Orissa in 2008 still claim legitimate compensation in proceedings underway in front of the Supreme Court: this is what the justice, pea ...
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11 January 2019
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishops: the already fragile State of law in the Country is in danger, it is necessary to respect the Constitution
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "Huge concern and great indignation in the face of the events which took place in past days", were expressed by the Bishops of Guatemala in a statement signed on 10 January by the Preside ...
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11 January 2019
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Secure borders and humane treatment of those fleeing persecution and seeking a better life are not mutually exclusive.
Newark (Agenzia Fides) - In the message to the nation on Tuesday 8 January on the issue of migrants at the border, Donald Trump, President of the United States, attacked Central American migrants trying to enter the coun ...
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11 January 2019
ASIA/SYRIA - Assad promises to rebuild the memorial church of the Armenian Genocide in Deir ez-Zor
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad has pledged to rebuild with state funding the church-sanctuary of the Armenian martyrs located in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, which was devastated by the ji ...
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11 January 2019
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Zambia starts to prepare for the Extraordinary Mission Month of October 2019
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The month of October 2019 should be a reminder to every Christian that the gift of faith received at baptism sends them on mission": said Father Cleophas Lungu, Secretary General of the Bishops' ...
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11 January 2019
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Tshisekedi’s victory. The Bishops: "The results of the presidential election do not correspond to the data collected by our observation mission"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo "take note of the publication of the provisional results of the presidential election which - they underline - "for the first time in the recent ...
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11 January 2019
ASIA/SINGAPORE - The youth of Singapore: the next WYD is an opportunity to share faith and culture
Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The upcoming World Youth Day (WYD) in Panama will be an opportunity for the young people of Singapore to share faith and culture. As Agenzia Fides learns, a delegation from Singapore will atte ...
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10 January 2019
AFRICA - Electoral disputes in Africa: the Congolese episcopate, a model for the continent
Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "Publicly exposing dissent and divisions, especially in electoral disputes, is a fact that wounds and weakens the Church and leads it away from the evangelizing and missionary activity in Africa", ...
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