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  12 April 2018
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishops of Oceania: the care of the "common home" is urgent Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The consequences of climate change on Countries and their economies in Oceania, and the response of the Churches, starting from "Laudato Si": the attention of the meeting of the Federation ...
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  12 April 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Two priests attacked. "The Church is intimidated and threatened" Church sources tell Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Two other priests were assaulted in the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to news sent to Agenzia Fides, the parish priest of the church dedicated to Blessed Isidoro Bakanja in the Seka-M ...
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  12 April 2018
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Bishops of El Salvador in the United States to support the TPS Washington (Agenzia Fides) – Need to meet members of Congress to try to raise awareness of what could happen if Salvadorans (about 200 thousand) lost their temporary protection status and meet immigrant Salvadoran fait ...
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  11 April 2018
  AMERICA - A "Continental Walk" to raise awareness on public policies for children Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) - "It will be a symbolic but strong action: we want to bring tenderness in the public sphere and influence public policies for children in the countries where we will pass". This is how Angel Mori ...
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  11 April 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A reform of the educational system is urgently needed to promote religious harmony Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - In the Pakistani educational system, reforms and improvements are needed to promote tolerance and religious harmony in society: this is what Catholic Peter Jacob, director of the "Center for Soci ...
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  11 April 2018
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - The Bishops: "A presidential pardon to thin out prisons where 16,000 detainees live in spaces for 4,000 people" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – To offer presidential pardon for those guilty of minor crimes and hire new magistrates to speed up trials. This is the appeal launched by the Catholic Church in Côte d'Ivoire where the situat ...
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  11 April 2018
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - To safeguard human rights and the environment: the Church's commitment in Oceania Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, have gathered in Port Moresby from 11 to 18 April in an assembly that is focus ...
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  11 April 2018
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - New families for a new world Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "Family is the cell of society and in the family God invites us to become a small holy community, so that the light illuminates the darkness of the human heart and a source of inexhaustible g ...
• 11 April 2018
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Appointment of National Director of the PMS, Fr. Pontian Kaweesa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 18 January 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Pontian Kaweesa, of the diocesan clergy of Kiyinda-Mityana ...
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  11 April 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish sources: US politicians ask to witness the trial against evangelical pastor Brunson Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - Some US senators have sent the Turkish Ministry of Justice the request to be present at the upcoming trial against Andrew Craig Brunson, the US evangelical pastor detained in Turkey on charges of ...
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  11 April 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops of the border defend Venezuelan immigrants Puerto Carreño (Agenzia Fides) – There is major concern "for the growing wave of emigrants towards border cities such as Puerto Carreño and Puerto Inirida" in Colombia, in addition to the need to implement "pastoral ...
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  10 April 2018
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Casamance: "There is a resumption of violence: we pray strongly for peace": says the Bishop of Ziguinchor Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "We must complain about an increase in violence following the tragedy that occurred in January", said His Exc. Mgr. Paul Abel Mamba, Bishop of Ziguinchor, capital of Casamance, southern region of ...
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  10 April 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - A thousand sister doctors are dedicated to health care for the most disadvantaged Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - More than a thousand sister doctors in India silently contribute to the health care of the poorest and most marginalized. As Agenzia Fides learns, the "Sister Doctors Forum of India" (SDFI) is a ...
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  10 April 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: ecclesiastical universities "providential laboratories" of the outgoing missionary Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The memory of the beginnings of the Urbaniana University "is the memory of the beginnings of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and also its projection. In the missionary fu ...
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  10 April 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Your vote counts": the Church promotes an inclusive electoral system of religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Your vote is important": this is the title of the campaign launched by the National Commission "Justice and Peace" (NCJP), within the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Pakistan, to encourage Chr ...