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  26 January 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Living the Gospel in the urban suburbs: meeting of the Basic Ecclesial Communities Paraná (Agenzia Fides) - "The meeting of the Basic Ecclesial Communities of Brazil is a call to renewal in the practice of life, especially in evangelical service in the urban surburbs, both in a methodological sense an ...
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  26 January 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - New peaceful demonstrations on the streets of the country are scheduled Lome (Agenzia Fides) - The popular movement of peaceful protest does not stop: on 31st January, the 1st and 2nd February the Togolese have been invited to take to the streets of the capital Lomè and other cities as a si ...
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  26 January 2018
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Revitalize the missionary commitment to listening to Christ Paris (Agenzia Fides) - The PMS diocesan Directors who will be in Paris on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 January. This national meeting will bring together all those involved in missionary animation in the 99 French dioceses ...
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  26 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Peace between India and Pakistan: Christians united in prayer Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A prayer addressed to God, a prayerful silence, a common song to invoke the gift of peace, calling for "mutual respect and the promotion of harmony and development between Pakistan and India": is ...
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  25 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Child sexual abuse: Pakistan breaks the silence Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Pakistan has finally broken a taboo, at least for now. This comes after the denunciation of sexual abuse, violence, rape and murder against thousands of minors. Here there is a culture of silenc ...
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  25 January 2018
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Barnabite in Kabul: "There are no glimmers of light in Afghanistan" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "The latest attacks are terrible. Being locked up in the Embassy, I do not have first-hand news, I know what is said through mass media. I believe that Afghanistan is at the center of power games ...
• 25 January 2018
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO and NIGER - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Isidore Nombré Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 January 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Isidore Nombré, of the diocesan clergy of Koudougou (Burki ...
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  25 January 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros visits al Ahram public newspaper: Coptic marginalization is coming to an end Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Copts of Egypt have suffered growing political and social marginalization since the 1950s. But this trend has actually reversed in the last seven years. And many unpublished facts - such as th ...
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  25 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Fr. Robert Masinda is free", says the Vicar General of Butembo-Beni to Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Fr. Robert Masinda is free and on his way to reach the Bishopric", says to Agenzia Fides Mgr. Laurent Sondirya (and not Emmanuel Mwanapenzi Nyonyu as erroneously reported yesterday), Vicar Gen ...
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  25 January 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Celam supports the Bishops accused of "hate crimes" by President Maduro Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Solidarity with the Venezuelan people and their Pastors, two of them threatened by the President of the Republic Nicolás Maduro following their heartfelt homilies of denunciation. This is what t ...
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  25 January 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church works tirelessly for the population hit by the earthquake Chiapas (Agencia Fides) - "Thanks to the work of Father Romulo Sanchez, parish priest of the Parish of St. John the Baptist in Ocozocoautla, in the diocese of Tuxtla Gutierrez, in Chiapas, the San Juan 'Vivienda 6x4' pro ...
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  25 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "Where the police behaved professionally, there were no incidents" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Where the police behaved professionally there were no incidents". This was underlined by Donatien Nshole, Secretary General of CENCO (National Episcopal Conference of Congo), presenting a repo ...
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  24 January 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - A nun: "Israel pays Rwanda to welcome African immigrants" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "Israel has found a drastic way to solve the problem of African immigrants: it will pay Rwanda to welcome them. Some use the verb 'sell' to describe the policy launched by Benjamin Netanyahu� ...
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  24 January 2018
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Archbishop Goh to catechists: "The important thing is your encounter with Christ" Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - Catechumens, children, students of a catechism class "should see Christ in their catechists. The important thing is your encounter with Christ": as Agenzia Fides learns, this was a message Arc ...
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  24 January 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - President Widodo to Catholic students: "Be agents of peace and unity" Palembang (Agenzia Fides) - Working for peace, helping to maintain the unity of Indonesia, working together with all other citizens for national development and the common good: this is what Indonesian President Joko Wid ...