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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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  31 July 2018
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The phenomenon of microbes: baby-gangs that face each other with machetes Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - For almost a decade, the Ivory Coast has been going through a profound socio-political crisis that is affecting the country at its deepest roots. One of the most tangible signs of this crisis re ...
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  31 July 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean patriarch to politicians: a "strong coalition government" to remove weapons from sectarian militias is needed Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The disastrous situation that Iraq is facing makes the formation of a "strong coalition government" urgent, before "it is too late". And the future rulers will have to immediately face the emerg ...
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  31 July 2018
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Camillians in Lotung to "look after and evangelize" Lotung (Agenzia Fides) - In 1952, when the Camillians who worked in China since 1946 were expelled, a group of them decided to head for Thailand, another group to Taiwan. Already in China they had adopted this motto to d ...
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  30 July 2018
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - To prevent and end human trafficking: World Day against human trafficking Geneva (Agenzia Fides) – Human trafficking is a tragic form of contemporary slavery, which constitutes a crime and a serious threat to human dignity and physical integrity. On the occasion of World Day against this phe ...
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  30 July 2018
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The Bishops celebrate the Church-Family of God in Africa Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, July 29, 2018, the official launch of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) was held in the ...
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  30 July 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Bishop Epiphanius, Abbot of the Monastery of San Macario, murdered Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - There are doubts and uncertainties about the circumstances of the murder of Coptic Orthodox bishop Epiphanius, Abbot of Saint Macarius the Great monastery (Dayr Abū Maqār), who was found lifeles ...
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  28 July 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - "God as guarantor of the future": Democracy Day in Niger Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Our democracy is celebrated on Sunday 29th July. In our own little way it is already something", says to Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary of the Society of African Missions, on the occasion ...
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  28 July 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - To be contemplative in action: World Assembly of Christian Life Communities Buenos Aires (Agencia Fides) - From Sunday 22nd to Tuesday 31st July, representatives of 70 countries are gathered in Buenos Aires for the World Assembly of Christian Life Communities - CVX. Pope Francis, in a message s ...
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  28 July 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - Pastor Brunson moved to house arrest. But on his case the US-Turkey clash reignites Izmir (Agenzia Fides) - US evangelical Christian pastor Andrew Craig Brunson, arrested and tried in Turkey for alleged complicity with forces accused of terrorist acts and anti-Turkish subversive plots (see Fides 9/5/201 ...
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  27 July 2018
  AFRICA/GHANA - The project of the Bishop of Wa continues: also a talk show to educate on mental health Wa (Agenzia Fides) - They go to look for the mentally disabled on the street and give them food, clean clothes and proper care. This is the project that Mgr. Richard Kuuia Baawobr, Bishop of Wa, in Ghana, launched in 201 ...