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  2 May 2019
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Attack against the Church and tear gas against the faithful during mass: appeal for respect for dignity and human rights San Cristóbal (Agenzia Fides) - "This afternoon a horde of men from the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) attacked the church of Our Lady De Fatima in the Sucre district of San Cristobal": this is what Mgr. Mario del Vall ...
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  2 May 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - May 1, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch receives and thanks health workers in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - On May 1, on the occasion of Labor day, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II invited a large delegation of health workers in Damascus. The Primate of the Syrian Antiochene Church wa ...
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  2 May 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A missionary who denounces the environmental damage of gold mines has been stopped Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - An Italian missionary who denounces the environmental damage caused by the gold mines in the Central African Republic was stopped by the military", says Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, a Carmelite missionar ...
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  30 April 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - The "kafala" system, an instrument of oppression for African immigrant women Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Slaves and in an almost legal way. This is the fate of African women who have immigrated to many Middle Eastern Countries. Their dream of a better life is shattered against the "kafala". Migrant ...
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  30 April 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Religious habit testifies, attracts and encourages evangelization Irondale (Agenzia Fides) - "People do not need religious people who are like one of them, just as children do not need parents who are their friends or companions. They need religious people who guide them to Heaven": sa ...
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  30 April 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Bishops of Argentina meet the Pope, a country with 13 million poor and malnourished children Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Today the ad limina visit of the Argentine Bishops begins. 106 Bishops will gather to meet with Pope Francis to report on the pastoral work of the Church in the Country. Argentina is experiencing ...
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  30 April 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Xenophobia risks bringing us back to the times of apartheid" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "If unjustified violent attacks against migrants and refugees do not stop, South Africans run the risk of becoming like the oppressors of the apartheid era" warns Archbishop Buti Tlhagale o ...
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  30 April 2019
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Bishops’ appeal: "It is necessary to grow together as a people and as a Country, without leaving anyone behind" Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - "In this unscrupulous world where we want to build the walls of division, we want to eliminate all forms of division: only in this way we can build a nation characterized by unity and harmony", s ...
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  30 April 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Social Services Australia: "Citizens vote for the rights of the weakest" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The success of a nation is not measured by the wealth of a few, but by the prosperity of all. Sometimes, the leaders of various Australian political parties have referred to values that speak of ...
• 29 April 2019
  ASIA/JAPAN - Resignation of Bishop of Fukuoka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 April 2019, he Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Fukuoka, Japan, presented by H.E. Msgr. Dominic Ryôji Miyahara. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 29/4 ...
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  29 April 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Five dead and 15,000 displaced: first toll of Cyclone Kenneth, less than a month from Idai Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Hurricane Kenneth made landfall on Thursday 25 April with the force of a Category 4 hurricane, on a scale of up to 5. The strong winds up to 280 km/h hit the northern regions, especially the area ...
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  29 April 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "The news is totally false", the Bishop of Dori tells Fides about the alleged discovery of the body of Fr. Joël Yougbaré Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The news is totally false". Thus, in a conversation with Agenzia Fides, His Exc. Mgr. Laurent Dabiré, Bishop of Dori, decisively denies the news released by some press services of the disc ...
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  29 April 2019
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - "Interreligious dialogue, a necessary basis for a perspective of peace" Colombo - (Agenzia Fides) - The concern of local Muslims is rising in Sri Lanka for possible attacks on the community after the massacre in Catholic churches on Easter Sunday. And while the investigation continues on the ...
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  29 April 2019
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - The testimony of a Slovak with an African heart Bratislava (Agenzia Fides) - Among the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines flight, heading towards Nairobi which crushed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa on Sunday 10 March, in addition to a Kenyan missionary and nu ...
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  29 April 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The martyrs of La Rioja beatified: "they lived and died out of love" La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - "Today the Church is pleased to recognize that Enrique Ángel Angelelli, Bishop of La Rioja, Carlos de Dios Murias, conventual Franciscan, Gabriel Longueville, fidei donum missionary priest, an ...