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  22 August 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians welcome address of Prime Minister but lament absence of representatives of religious minorities in the Federal Cabinet Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - - "Pakistan’s religious minority citizens still face challenges and serious issues and welcome the fact that Prime Minister Imran Khan has raised the question of equal rights for all citizen ...
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  10 August 2018
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Release of political prisoners: an important step towards peace Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - On 6 August 2018, on the eve of Independence Day, the President of the Republic of the Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara decided to grant pardon to about 800 political prisoners including Simone Gb ...
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  10 August 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Government anti-drug campaign: the Church's commitment to the rehabilitation of drug addicts Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Father Luciano Airel Felloni, an Argentinian missionary who has lived in the Philippines for twenty years, has started a serious effort to rehabilitate drug addicts and lead them to live a meanin ...
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  10 August 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Catholic lay elected in the Provincial Assembly of Sindh Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic layman Anthony Naveed is the only Christian member elected in the Provincial Assembly of Sindh (southern Pakistan). Chosen by the Pakistan People Party (PPP), he will be present in the ...
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  10 August 2018
  ASIA/SYRIA - The monastery of St. Tekla in Maalula reopens Maalula (Agenzia Fides) - The Orthodox monastery of St. Tekla, in the Syrian town of Maalula, will soon be open again to the visits of pilgrims and tourists. In fact, reconstruction work on the monastery is nearing compl ...
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  9 August 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Cardinal Coutts: "A call to pray and serve my people and the universal Church" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "I am not chosen because I am the most capable". This is God's plan for me: serving him close to the Holy Father. It is a responsibility and a call to pray and serve more. My elevation to Cardin ...
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  9 August 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "St. Mary’s fast": Copts pray for the Patriarch and monasteries after the murder of Bishop Epiphanios Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Orthodox Christians all over the world are experiencing the 15 days of "Holy Virgin Mary’s fast" praying with particular intentions for their Patriarch Tawadros II and for the monasteries ...
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  8 August 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A priest: "After the earthquake, the displaced are desperate: humanitarian aid is urgently needed" Mataram (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a need for humanitarian aid for the thousands of people affected by the recent earthquake on the tourist island of Lombok": says to Agenzia Fides Catholic Catholic priest Fr. Laurenciu ...
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  8 August 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Threats to those assisting Venezuelan immigrants, while the border reopens Boa Vista (Agenzia Fides) - From death threats to members of the Jesuit Refugees and Migrants Service (SJMR), and to media attacks against members of the Catholic community, the Church responds with "a refusal to any inc ...
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  8 August 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Churches burned and priests killed in the Somali region Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarch Matthias I and the Holy Synod of the Tewahedo Orthodox Church of Ethiopia have decided to offer 16 days of fasting and prayer that precede and follow the liturgical solemnity of th ...
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  8 August 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Korean Youth Day is approaching Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Seoul will host the fourth Korean Youth Day, which is celebrated from 11 to 15 August on the theme "It is me; do not be afraid" (Jn 6:20) ). "The experience will see almost 2,00 ...
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  7 August 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - New roads in the Amazon endanger the indigenous in voluntary isolation Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Without the consent of the indigenous peoples of the area and without even consulting them, the province of Purús is approving the construction of roads in the area", says to Fides Ismael Vega, d ...
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  7 August 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Ten years ago the greatest anti-Christian violence in the history of India Kandhamal (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-Christian massacre campaign in Orissa in 2008 is ten years old: it is the biggest wave of violence against believers in the history of the nation. Today the population of Kandhamal di ...
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  7 August 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Four years after the jihadist invasion, Christians from Karamles celebrate the return home with a procession Karamles (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Iraqi Christians took part, on the evening of Monday August 6th, in a procession that took place along the streets of Karamles, a town of the Nineveh Plain traditionally inhabited b ...
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  6 August 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Henao: to stop the killings of social leaders, we need to build "community leadership" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - 311 social leaders murdered in two and a half years. This is the dramatic data released at the beginning of July by the Office of the People's Defender (ombudsman) of Colombia, referring to the p ...