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7 August 2018
AMERICA/PERU - New roads in the Amazon endanger the indigenous in voluntary isolation
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Without the consent of the indigenous peoples of the area and without even consulting them, the province of Purús is approving the construction of roads in the area", says to Fides Ismael Vega, d ...
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7 August 2018
ASIA/INDIA - Ten years ago the greatest anti-Christian violence in the history of India
Kandhamal (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-Christian massacre campaign in Orissa in 2008 is ten years old: it is the biggest wave of violence against believers in the history of the nation. Today the population of Kandhamal di ...
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7 August 2018
ASIA/IRAQ - Four years after the jihadist invasion, Christians from Karamles celebrate the return home with a procession
Karamles (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Iraqi Christians took part, on the evening of Monday August 6th, in a procession that took place along the streets of Karamles, a town of the Nineveh Plain traditionally inhabited b ...
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6 August 2018
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Henao: to stop the killings of social leaders, we need to build "community leadership"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - 311 social leaders murdered in two and a half years. This is the dramatic data released at the beginning of July by the Office of the People's Defender (ombudsman) of Colombia, referring to the p ...
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6 August 2018
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The hopes of religious minorities are growing with the next government of Imran Khan
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Imran Khan, political leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), winner of the recent general elections in Pakistan, has publicly announced that he wants to follow the legacy of Mohammad Ali J ...
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6 August 2018
AFRICA/EGYPT - Over 400 people interrogated on the murder of Coptic Bishop Epiphanios
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Over 400 people were interrogated by the Egyptian judicial authorities of the Wadi Natrun region, as part of the investigation into the murder of Coptic Orthodox bishop Epiphanius, abbot of Saint ...
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3 August 2018
AFRICA/KENYA - The local Anglican Church supports the conservation of the forest
Kisumu (Agenzia Fides) - "The protection of the Mau Forest should not be exploited. We witness the strategies of politicians of some communities that use this heritage only for their profit. They should remember that the ...
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3 August 2018
ASIA/IRAQ - Stop to the settlement of 450 Sunni families in the Nineveh Plain, to protect the demographic balance
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Nineveh provincial Council, with a resolution announced Tuesday, July 31, suspended the transfer of 450 Sunni Arab families in the areas of the Nineveh Plain, already authorized by the federal gov ...
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2 August 2018
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Astana's first 20 years, the smart city attentive to the coexistence of religions
Astana (Agenzia Fides) - Religious tolerance, nuclear disarmament and environmental sustainability are the three cornerstones that forged the economic-social strategy implemented by Nazarbaev and also the city of Astana. ...
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2 August 2018
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Formative and naturalistic initiative of the Jesuit fathers
Douala (Agenzia Fides) - Teaching to grow bananas to promote micro-entrepreneurship projects, but also to save bananas from extinction. This is the project launched in Douala by the Jesuits of Cameroon. An initiative tha ...
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2 August 2018
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Juvencio Piratapuia: "school is the place where to spread the sense of community in the Amazon communities"
São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Agenzia Fides) - Education is one of the great challenges in the indigenous communities of the Amazon region. Juvencio Piratapuia is a professor in the community of Tabocal dos Pereira, municip ...
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2 August 2018
ASIA/TURKEY - US sanctions against two Turkish ministries for the "Brunson case"
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The US Treasury Department will implement "targeted" sanctions against two senior Turkish ministries, that of Justice - led by Abdulhamit Gul - and that of Interior - led by Minister Suleyman Soy ...
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1 August 2018
AFRICA/RWANDA - A government directive has decided to close eight thousand churches in the last seven months
Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - Following a government directive, eight thousand churches have been closed in the last seven months. The decision to reduce the number of places of worship in the country, both Christian and Mu ...
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1 August 2018
ASIA/LEBANON - The cave monastery of Saint Marone re-opens for liturgies and pilgrimages
Baalbek (Agenzia Fides) - The cave monastery of Saint Marone, a place dear to the historical and spiritual memory of the Maronite Christians, re-opens to liturgical celebrations, devotional practices and pilgrimages, aft ...
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31 July 2018
AMERICA/PERU - Amazon: over 150 peoples in voluntary isolation risk extinction
Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - "The existence of these groups is frequently denied or made invisible, which in many cases facilitates the authorization of economic activities that directly affect their territories". ...
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