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  12 July 2019
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Bishops ask the new government to guarantee peace and security Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Guinea-Bissau have asked the new government to guarantee peace and national security, in order to bring the country out of the crisis in which it has fallen in recent years. In pa ...
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  12 July 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Presidential elections: tensions over the Ivorian Independent Electoral Commission Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The new Ivorian Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), set up to prepare for the presidential elections to be held in 2020 (see Fides, 9/10/2018) is already a source of controversy. "There are ...
• 12 July 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Rector of the "St. John Vianney Major Seminary" in Pretoria Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 20, 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Masilo John Semela, of the diocesan clergy of Tzaneen (South Afr ...
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  12 July 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - Attack on a Syrian-Orthodox church in Qamishli. More than ten wounded Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - A terrorist attack devastated a Syrian Orthodox church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli, causing more than 10 wounded, of whom at least 3 are in serious ...
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  12 July 2019
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops: "Venezuela cries out for a change of direction, a return to the constitution" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - At noon yesterday, 11 July, on behalf of all the Bishops of Venezuela, Archbishop Jesús González De Zárate, Archbishop of Cumaná; Mgr. Jorge Aníbal Quintero, Bishop of Barcelona and Mgr. Jo ...
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  12 July 2019
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - First Ad Gentes missionary formation meeting for Central American animators Valle de Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of groups involved in the missions, both members of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) and other pastoral care workers of Central American (Panama, Costa Rica, Nicar ...
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  11 July 2019
  AFRICA - A special issue of Mundo Negro to have "Africa in hand" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A continent with one billion and 300 million inhabitants, 40% of whom are under 15, and 60% do not reach 25 years of age. And it is to this Africa that the magazine Mundo Negro, published in Spain ...
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  11 July 2019
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church will continue to remain on the side of the people, mainly alongside those who suffer the most Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Maracaibo and President of the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV), Mgr. José Luis Azuaje, assured that the Church will remain with the people, especially with those who suff ...
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  11 July 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The first liturgical feast of the blessed martyrs of La Rioja: an opportunity to learn and imitate their testimony of faith La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - "The joy of the beatification of our martyrs Enrique, Carlos, Gabriel and Wenceslao continues to beat in our hearts and encourages us to continue walking as a community in the "state of beatifi ...
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  11 July 2019
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Drought emergency: 2.3 million people in a state of food insecurity, of whom 490,000 are children Chiulo (Agenzia Fides) - In the south of Angola, in the provinces of Cunene, Huila and Namibe, a state of emergency due to drought has persisted for over six months, with very serious repercussions on the health conditio ...
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  10 July 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - Father Maccalli: the father who thinks of all, Christians and Muslims, Gurmancè and Peulh, Haussa and Zerma Bomoanga (Agenzia Fides) - "Hello Father Gigi, we have been praying for your release and that of other hostages whose names we do not know for ten months". This is the beginning of the letter that Father Vito Girotto, of ...
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  10 July 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Costa Rica welcomes the children who fled from Nicaragua in its schools Jinotepe (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to the generosity of the border towns in Costa Rica, thousands of children fleeing the social and political crisis in Nicaragua have managed to return to class. According to the note se ...
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  10 July 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - New Institutes of Coptic Studies are spreading in public universities Alexandria of Egypt (Agenzia Fides) - With an unprecedented initiative, Egyptian political institutions have decided to invest resources to support the opening of institutes, centers and departments in public universitie ...
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  10 July 2019
  AFRICA/UGANDA - "We want the truth about the murder of Brother Mugarura", says Bishop Emeritus of Masaka to Agenzia Fides Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "We are trying to verify the circumstances of the death of Brother Norbert Emmanuel Mugarura", says His Exc. Mgr. John Baptist Kaggwa, Bishop emeritus of Masaka to Agenzia Fides, with regards to ...
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  10 July 2019
  AMERICA/PANAMA - May governors work for the dignity of the person and for the common good, and may citizens contribute to building a better Panama Panama (Agenzia Fides) - "The new authorities have the historical possibility of regaining the trust of people with a government management centered on the dignity of the person and on the common good; and the citizens h ...