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  31 October 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - State resources must be used to alleviate the suffering of the poorest people Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "Need to take urgent measures so that state funds are mainly allocated to implement social policies that respond to the basic and real needs of the population, such as health, education and h ...
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  30 October 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Desecration of religious symbols: Catholics deplore the Pakistani media Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A peaceful protest against the desecration of the Christian faith and Christian religious symbols was organized by Christians in Karachi who yesterday met in front of the Karachi Press Club. Tho ...
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  30 October 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni inaugurates the Academic Year at Urbaniana: networking to renew the multifaceted face of the Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Confirmation of the "varied face" of the Urbaniana University and "the permanent missionary tension of which it is the bearer" were reiterated this morning by Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Gran ...
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  30 October 2018
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Monastery of Deir el Sultan, tension rises between Coptic Church and Orthodox Church of Ethiopia Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The contrast between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Tewahedo Orthodox Church of Ethiopia about the dispute on Deir el Sultan monastery, the place of worship placed on a roof terrace of the ...
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  30 October 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "80% of youth migration remains in Africa" says Cardinal Souraphiel Rome (Agenzia Fides) - H.E. Berhaneyesus Cardinal Souraphiel, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Ababa said that the international media portrayal of "youth migrating to different areas of the Middle East and Europe on ...
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  30 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Five nuns kidnapped in south-eastern Nigeria, another two injured Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Five nuns of the Order of the Missionary of Martha and Mary of the diocese of Issele-Uku, were kidnapped, in the State of Delta in the south-east of Nigeria. According to news sent to Agenzia Fid ...
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  30 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migration is just the tip of the iceberg of millions of people suffering from poverty, injustice, violence and corruption Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Migration, both in Central America and in Mexico, is just the tip of the iceberg of millions of people suffering from poverty, injustice, violence and corruption", reads the editorial of th ...
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  30 October 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Cardinal D'Rozario: "The care of children is a pastoral priority" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The care and protection of children is a pastoral priority for the Church in Bangladesh: said Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario, Archbishop of Dhaka, who took part in a gathering of pastoral animators wh ...
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  29 October 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Youth and migrants: the response of the Church of Belem on the path towards the 2019 Synod Belem (Agenzia Fides) - A big center for youth Pastoral care, where promoting human and integral formation of young people, is the response of the diocese of Belem, one of the great metropolises of the Amazon, to the gre ...
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  29 October 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protests of Christians: withdraw the blasphemous TV series Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The promo launched by the famous broadcaster Geo TV uses symbols of Catholic faith like the crucifix and the holy rosary, and in the second scene openly hurts the sentiments of the Christian ...
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  29 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Presidential vote: the doubts of members of the Church Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "I question myself on the conduct of the vote", said His Exc. Mgr. Samuel Kleda, Archbishop of Douala, the day after the re-election of Paul Biya as President of Cameroon for the seventh time. ...
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  29 October 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - To bring the light of Christ to prisoners in the Philippines Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Our attention is focused on the condition of our brothers and sisters who are in prison, deprived of their liberty and deprived of their most basic human rights, we are all aware, for example, o ...
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  29 October 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: the "government of national unity" must be open to all political forces Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A possible Lebanese "national unity" government must necessarily "group all the Lebanese political forces", and not just divide the ministries among the political forces that won the elections. T ...
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  29 October 2018
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Bishops on the consultation for the new Constitution: conscious and responsible participation of all Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In a long and articulated pastoral Letter just published, the Episcopal Conference of Cuba has expressed itself on the project of the new Constitution of the country which, at the end of the revi ...
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  29 October 2018
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The Barnabite in Kabul: "The Taliban defeated in the elections, the desire for peace is stronger than bombs" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "If we were to evaluate the elections for the renewal of the Lower House (Wolesi Jirga) of the Afghan Parliament according to our parameters, one could say that they were a total failure. If, howe ...