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  11 August 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Mini cultural centre on wheels open for street children Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Matatart is a project run jointly by a 30 year old architect, an Italian Aid Worker, and a young Ugandan woman. The project helps carry culture and art to street children in Kampala. Matatart c ...
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  11 August 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Two emergency projects in provinces of former Katanga help cope with double the number of internally displaced persons Agenzia Fides) Kalemie (Agenzia Fides) – According to a report issued by OCHA, in March this year there were about 450,000 internally displaced persons in the province of Tanganyika, the worst hit of the four province ...
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  11 August 2017
  UNITED STATES - Thanks to Catholic Bishop Mexican mother may remain in US to care for her daughter El Paso (Agenzia Fides) – A Mexican women, mother of three who risked deportation has been given permission to remain in the United States for another six months, thanks to the intervention of Bishop Mark J. Seitz of ...
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  11 August 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Religious leaders: “declare legitimate Bangassou people request for withdrawal of Moroccan UN Peacekeepers Bangui (Agenzia Fides)- In Bangassou, a city in the south east of the Central African Republic the people are demanding the withdrawal of the Moroccan troops of the UN Peacekeeping Mission. “The request is legitimate ...
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  10 August 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Massacre in Bangassou denounced by the Pope: local Bishop condemns ‘trigger-happy’ UN troops Bangui (Agenzia Fides)- “The massacre in Central Africa Republic in Gambo, a village 70 km from Bangassou, was even mentioned yesterday by the Holy Father” the local Bishop Juan José Aguirre of Muños, Bangassou, un ...
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  10 August 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Integration, equality and respect: Ethiopian social circus changes the lives of the country’s children A Coruña (Agenzia Fides) – Circus, education and social assistance are the values of the Fekat Circus, an Ethiopian group which aims at improving the lives of the children in that country . The initiative is for socia ...
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  10 August 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops: “No nuclear power station in Rio Negro” Neuquen (Agenzia Fides) – During a meeting chaired by Bishop emeritus Virginio Bressanelli diocesan Administrator of Neuquén, the highest Catholic authorities in Patagonia (Argentina) rejected a plan announced by the ...
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  10 August 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - “No to violence”: religious leaders appeal while waiting for official results Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) “No to violence; legal paths must be taken to resolve disputes”. This is the sense of an appeal made by the religious leaders of Kenya, meeting at the Multi-Sectional Forum, awaiting the issu ...
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  9 August 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Outgoing President Kenyatta leads after elections yesterday but the Opposition denounces vote-rigging Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- Outgoing president Uhuru Kenyatta leads in the partial count after yesterday’s 8 August vote for presidential and political elections in Kenya (see Fides 8/8/2017). The result however is reject ...
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  9 August 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - More than 60 per cent of Guatemalans live in poverty Ciudad de Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) - The scenario of inequality, racism, poverty and undernourishment in Guatemala is evident. Of the at least 16 million people living in this Latin American country, 60% suffer conditi ...
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  9 August 2017
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Itinerant theatre to alleviate trauma of Gaza’s children Gaza (Agenzia Fides) – A group of young people in Gaza has decided to take the only Itinerant theatre in Palestine to perform in orphanages, hospitals and day assistance centres, to alleviate the psychological stress a ...
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  8 August 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: respect human rights and lands Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – August 9 is International Day of the World’s Indigenous. The world has over 370 million indigenous peoples in 70 different countries, speaking 5,000 languages (75% of which are known) and a ...
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  8 August 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Promote real integration for migrants in Chile” demands Cardinal Ezzati Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – "It is important to accept migrants, but this is not sufficient, we must integrate with them, and this means making laws to foster genuine integration with relative respect for human rights", ...
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  8 August 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Polling stations open in Kenya to elect new President; local Church in front line for a peaceful vote Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- Polling stations open in Kenya today, 8 August, for presidential and political elections. Some 19.6 million voters are called to elect a new parliament and a Head of State and to choose between o ...
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  8 August 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Young Asian Catholics: “We will face the challenges of the millennium to spread the Gospel” Yogyakarta (Agenzia Fides)- “We face problems and challenges in living our Catholic faith and live in a globalized era that impacts our life. Rapid technological advances give rise to consumerism, addictions, and loss ...