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  11 July 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Lay Catholics: "Concrete measures for credible elections, otherwise actions of protest" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the peace and stability of the country as well as that of the region are being threatened, on 9 August the Lay Coordination Committee will launch an appeal to the general mobilization of ...
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  11 July 2018
  ASIA/THAILAND - Towards the 350th anniversary of the Apostolic Vicariate of Siam Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Almost 350 years have passed since the first Catholic mission in Siam began: to commemorate the imminent anniversary of the Apostolic Vicariate of Siam (Mission of Siam: 1669-2019), the Bishops' ...
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  10 July 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes, bishops and priests attacked inside the church: "Never seen anything like this in Nicaragua" Managua (Agenzia Fides) – During the weekend, a lot of blood was shed in the area of Carazo, with an unknown number of deaths, 9 or maybe more, due to the result of the increasingly violent repression of the government ...
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  10 July 2018
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - Protests against Patriarch Karekin continue. The Supreme Spiritual Council urgently summoned Erevan (Agenzia Fides) - The mobilization of groups of Armenian demonstrators who on July 6 entered the Patriarchal See of the Catholicosate of Echmiadzin to demand the resignation of Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Ca ...
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  10 July 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Filipino Bishops: "Critical collaboration with the President, without compromise" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of the Philippines are willing to continue a "critical collaboration" with the government. After several differences of opinion between the Church and President Rodrigo Duter ...
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  ASIA/INDIA Catholicosato di Echmiadzin per c (Agenzia Fides) – Continua la mobilitazione di gruppi di manifestanti armeni che lo scorso 6 luglio sono entrati nella Sede patriarcale del Catholicosato di Echmiadzin per chiedere le dimissioni di Karekin II, Patriar ...
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  10 July 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Priest killed to rob his van Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - The parish priest of the Nuestra Senora de Fatima parish, in the Archdiocese of Barquisimeto (Venezuela), don Iraluis José Garcia Escobar, 38, was killed yesterday afternoon, Monday 9 July ...
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  10 July 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - For half a century a "village of charity" at the service of the disabled and the population in the Diocese of Dapaong Bombouaka (Agenzia Fides) - The "San Luigi Orione" Center of Bombouaka, in Togo, celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 7th: it is a centre of excellence that in recent years has become a point of reference for the enti ...
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  10 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The missionary cross with the relic of the Blessed Nazaria Ignacia "symbol" of CAM 5 Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - Santa Cruz is one of the nine departments that make up Bolivia. Situated in the eastern part of the country, it is the largest and most populated, occupying a third of the Bolivi ...
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  10 July 2018
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Bishops: "Elections are an opportunity to build a new Zimbabwe" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe, we hope and we pray, that the coming elections of 30th July 2018 will be such a moment for us all" write the Bishops of Zimbabwe in the pastoral letter entitled "Opening a new door" ...
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  9 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Towards CAM 5: families and the Church of Santa Cruz open the door of their home and their heart to the delegates Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - The delegates who will take part in the Fifth American Missionary Congress (CAM 5), which opens tomorrow, Tuesday 10 July, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, will end on Saturd ...
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  9 July 2018
  AFRICA/ IVORY COAST - Depenalization of abortion: moral and political regression Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "If the Ivorian Bishops have already energetically raised their voice to say No to the bill on reproductive health that has the fundamental objective of decriminalizing abortion and medically as ...
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  9 July 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Focolare Youth in Asia: fraternity in human relations, in politics, in economics Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Pathways to fraternity": is the project launched by over 6,000 young people who participated in the "Genfest", the international festival of the Focolare Youth Movement held in Manila. The proje ...
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  9 July 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Corruption is a cancer that must be eradicated urgently" say religious leaders Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Corruption is a cancer that has pervaded every sector of our society, and which the current laws have proved inadequate to address. There is therefore an urgent need to take radical action to e ...
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  9 July 2018
  AMERICA/HAITI - After violent demonstrations 2 people have died, the increase in the price of petrol has been suspended Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - After violent protests in the capital and in the city of Cap-Haitien, in the north of the country, Friday 6 and Saturday 7 July, the government of Haiti announced the suspension of a fuel ...