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17 November 2017
ASIA/HONG KONG - Half a century of mission among the lepers: Don Gaetano Nicosia, the angel of lepers
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - It was August 1963 when the young Salesian missionary Don Gaetano Nicosia arrived in Ka Ho, a remote corner of the island of Coloane, Macau, to take care of a hundred patients suffering from H ...
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17 November 2017
AMERICA/HAITI - Among poverty, illness, malnutrition, the care of missionaries towards the disabled
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – In Haiti people live in huts, half of the population does not have access to drinking water, they do not have enough food and the highest rate of child mortality is recorded. One child ...
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17 November 2017
AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop's denunciation: exodus of the Tarahumaras indigenous due to violence
Tarahuamara (Agenzia Fides) - The Tarahumaras and Tepehuanes Indigenous are leaving their lands because they no longer find the necessary conditions for living there: reports the parish priest of San José of Tarahumara, ...
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17 November 2017
ASIA/JAPAN - Joint appeal of the Bishops of Korea and Japan:"Peace in North Asia is not based on weapons"
Kagoshima (Agenzia Fides) - "The current situation in northeast Asia is very worrying. The countries of North Asia are looking for stability and prosperity with their military power, forming alliances with other great po ...
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17 November 2017
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Mugabe reappears in public; Christian leaders call for a government of national unity
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "The hope of a real change is fading between the people of the Country, because President Mugabe seems does not want to give up power", say sources of the local Church in Harare, capital of Zimb ...
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17 November 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Multitude of Coptic pilgrims in Rizeigat for the feast of St. George
Luxor (Agenzia Fides) – A moltitude of Coptic pilgrims crowded the San Giorgio Sanctuary in Rizeigat, in the southwestern province of Luxor for days, in one of the most impressive celebrations of Christian popular devo ...
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17 November 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Pasinya accused of "black masses": when politics exploits religion
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The social and political climate in the Democratic Republic of Congo is becoming increasingly tense due to the postponement of the presidential elections to December 23, 2018. And political cla ...
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16 November 2017
AFRICA/TOGO - "Let us take destiny in our hands", says a Togolese missionary working in the DRC
Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "The population is asking for one thing: an alternative. That is because the reality in Togo has been the same for 50 years, the same name, the same family. The people therefore only ask this: giv ...
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16 November 2017
AMERICA/PORTO RICO - Trauma, psychological and emotional damage to hurricane victims who are afraid of the recovery
San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - Even after 47 days since the passage of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which in September devastated the Country, emergency has not ended yet (see Fides 2/10/2017). The most serious problem continu ...
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16 November 2017
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops: profound electoral reform is needed, support for Mgr. Baez
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Nicaraguan Bishops 'Conference (CEN) gathered at the annual plenary Assembly from 13 to 15 November to learn and share the work of the various bishops' Commissions in the face of the social ...
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16 November 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian court sentences man to death for the killing of Coptic priest Samaan. The Grand Mufti will have to approve the ruling
Cairo (Agenzia Fides). The North Cairo Criminal Court approved the death sentence for Ahmed Said al-Sonbati, the young man who on October 13, killed and stabbed Coptic priest Samaan Shahata in a peripheral street in Cair ...
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16 November 2017
ASIA/MYANMAR - The "spirituality of unity" leaves an impression on the Burmese Church
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Myanmar are interested in promoting the "spirituality of unity": says Bishop Felix Liam, president of the Bishops' Conference of Myanmar, to Agenzia Fides. The Bishops of ...
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16 November 2017
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Justice for the murder of missionary Fausto Tentorio gets closer
Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - "There are positive signs and undoubted progress regarding the murder of Fr Fausto Tentorio, and the new investigative group appointed by the government of President Duterte have given the fir ...
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15 November 2017
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - In memory of Jesus' martyrs: an impulse to change the nation
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "The death of the Jesuit martyrs and laywomen encourages us to work tirelessly to change the course of history and the country", said Fr. Andreu Olivo, Rector of the "José Simeón Cañas" ...
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15 November 2017
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "The population is at work and the spirit is high" in Harare, where the military has taken control
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "The military has taken control of the key points of the capital: the presidential palace, parliament, airport, bus station, and the radio and television headquarters", says the Commission of Soc ...
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