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  20 July 2018
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Preparation for World Youth Day proceeds without forgetting the suffering of Nicaragua Panama (Agenzia Fides) - A few days ago, exactly on July 9th, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, broke the news that "on the occasion of the next World Youth Day (WYD) that will be held in Panama City ...
• 20 July 2018
  AFRICA/BENIN - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Cosme Adjomale Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 26 April 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Cosme Adjomale, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Parakou ...
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  20 July 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: "A government is needed!" Beirut (Agenzia fides) - National appeals are repeated asking the Lebanese political forces to urgently form a government to allow the country to concentrate its efforts and allow it to face the economic and regional cha ...
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  19 July 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Breakfast prepared by the parish is the only meal for thousands of Venezuelan refugees Pacaraima (Agenzia Fides) - Brazilian Don José Sebastião Barros da Silveira and Argentine don Miguel Alberto Fernández, Orionini (Piccola Opera della Divina Provvidenza), arrived in Pacaraima, Brazil, diocese of Rorai ...
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  19 July 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New Evangelization to remain rooted in Christ Manila (Agenzia Fides) - To provide a gripping experience of Jesus, a gripping experience of the community called the Church, and a gripping experience of the mission, the calling, motivated only by the love of Christ, a ...
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  19 July 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops involved in the reform of justice, moral heritage of the country Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, His Exc. Mgr. Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, O.F.M., Archbishop of Trujillo, met yesterday, Wednesday 18 July, the Commission for Justice Refor ...
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  19 July 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - "Come and see": Jesus' invitation inspires the first international convention of young Syriac Catholics Faytrun (Agenzia Fides) - The "method" used by Christ to draw men and women of all times to him is always what he used in his gatherings with the first apostles: "Come and see" (Jn 1, 39) . And the words of Jesus' invita ...
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  19 July 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - UN Alarm: "Violence between farmers and herders risks turning into forms of terrorism" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Violence between farmers and herders is increasingly a major security threat in the region and risks morphing into the terrorist attacks that have defined the security landscape", said Mohamed Ib ...
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  19 July 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Organization of American States condemns Ortega for repression Managua (Agenzia Fides) - On the same day in which 39 years ago (1979) the Nicaraguan people announced the popular victory against dictator Somoza, yesterday, 18 July 2018, the Permanent Council of the OAS (Organization ...
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  18 July 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Church forms to responsible voting and participation, also via the web Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - During the electoral campaign for the general elections of next October, the Church in Brazil contributes as usual to the civil and democratic education of citizens through publications and aud ...
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  18 July 2018
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - We need to strengthen our faith in God to recover from corruption Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - After the denunciation of the African Union (see Fides 4/7/2018) and that of the bishops of Kenya (see Fides 7/7/2018), the President of the Episcopal Conference of Zambia (ZCCB), Mgr. George Lun ...
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  18 July 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Sister Xiskya Valladares to the international community: "Please, act quickly, before they kill us all" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "I am just a Catholic nun. Nobody has asked me to write to you. But (...) I cannot stand and watch like a dictator massacre his people while you remain silent". This is how the open letter that ...
• 18 July 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Javier Alexis Gil Henao Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 May 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Javier Alexis Gil Henao, of the diocesan clergy of Garzόn, as Nat ...
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  18 July 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Fadi Iskander becomes a priest, son of Syriac Orthodox priest-martyr Boulos Iskander Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – To receive priestly ordination from the hands of the same bishop who had ordained his father many years before, killed in 2006 and celebrated as a martyr by Iraqi Christians, is what happened to ...
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  18 July 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Religious extremism is a threat to development" says Fr. Devine of the Shalom Center Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are attentive to the Religionization of politics and the Politicization of religion", warned Fr. Patrick Devine (SMA), founder and president of the Shalom Center in Nairobi, Kenya, in hi ...