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  6 November 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Anglophone crisis: 79 students kidnapped in Bamenda; the Church organizes a fundraiser in Douala for displaced persons Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis is worsening in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, where yesterday, 5 November in Bamenda in the north-west of the country, 79 students and three heads of the local Presbyteri ...
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  6 November 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - A new secondary school in the former "village of lepers" Kolowaré (Agenzia Fides) - "We have officially begun the construction of a secondary school in Kolowaré. In 2007 we had already built a structure for junior school. Now the construction of the new institute begins": sa ...
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  6 November 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Assembly of Bishops: "courage and unity" to face today's complex and conflictual situations Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The 116th Plenary Assembly of the Argentinian Episcopate (CEA) is taking place, from November 5th to 9th in Pilar. As usual, there will be space in the work program to inform and discuss th ...
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  6 November 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic religious leaders: "We defend the Prophet, but Asia Bibi is innocent" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "No one tolerates a blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad and we are ready to sacrifice our lives for him. But how can the Court ever punish a defendant when there is solid evidence of her innoc ...
• 5 November 2018
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Resignation of the Archbishop of Kinshasa and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 November 2018 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pas ...
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  5 November 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Pastoral care of human rights and indigenous peoples in Latin America: two meetings promoted by CELAM Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - Today two important meetings begin in Bogota, promoted by the departments of CELAM (Latin American Episcopal Council), which will focus their attention on the pastoral care of human rights and t ...
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  5 November 2018
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Fr. Scalese: "The path of dialogue is the only path for the future of the country" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "The future of Afghanistan is entrusted to a hope: that the forces in question are willing to carry out a targeted negotiation, on the one hand, to the renunciation of the use of Taliban force, on ...
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  5 November 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - After the massacre of pilgrims, the Copts will not cancel the November liturgies: "the new martyrs must be celebrated" Minya (Agenzia Fides) - After yet another massacre of Christian pilgrims by jihadist terrorism, the Copts will not close churches and will not follow the calls of those who invite to suspend ordinary liturgical and pasto ...
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  5 November 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Monsengwo, symbol of a committed African Church Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Cardinal Monsengwo has been until today the voice of an African Church that refuses to lose hope that the African people will not be sacrificed by politics; an African Church that does not rem ...
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  5 November 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Towards the general elections: everyone's commitment to the common good is urgent Dhaka (Agenzia FIdes) - "We must pray and commit ourselves in order to ensure that the next general elections are just, peaceful and credible": says Anita Haldar, a Catholic, a social worker who works in the Bengali Cath ...
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  31 October 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Impulse to new media to spread the work of Caritas Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not news that our world is increasingly linked to communication. For many people, living means being connected. An approach that certainly has limits and negative aspects. However, we must ...
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  31 October 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi has been acquitted: "A victory for all of Pakistan" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Asia Bibi has been acquitted. In the hearing on October 31st which began at 9 am, a three-member panel of Supreme Court justices, led by the President of the same Court, Judge Mian Saqib Nisar ...
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  31 October 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The diocesan phase of the beatification cause of Mgr. Munzihirwa, killed in Bukavu in 1996, has concluded Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan phase of the beatification cause of His Exc. Mgr. Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo, Archbishop of Bukavu, assassinated in 1996, has concluded. The announcement was made during a p ...
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  31 October 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Archbishop Lozano: "The month of October ends, but not the mission" San Juan de Cuyo (Agenzia Fides) - "October is abount to end, a month dedicated above all to renew ourselves in the conscience and missionary commitment ... October ends, mission no, because it is permanent, it is in the ...
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  31 October 2018
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishops on the political crisis: "wisdom and balance prevail" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "Everyone should keep in mind that, if there is instability in the country, it is the people who suffer, so we sincerely appeal to all political parties to put aside their interests and respect ...