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  8 January 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - SOS Children's Villages reaffirms its commitment to children at risk Paris (Agenzia Fides) - SOS Children's Villages is a secular and apolitical organization. When asked about the reception of Christian children at the SOS Children's Village of Gode, Ethiopia (see Fides 4/1/2017), the NGO ...
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  8 January 2018
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Patriarch of Moscow: Russian intervention in Syria saved Christians from "genocide" Moscow (Agenzia Fides) – Thanks to Russia's military intervention in the Syrian conflict, the "genocide" of Christians was stopped. And now, the Russian Orthodox Church will take on the task of supporting the reconstru ...
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  8 January 2018
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Massacre in Casamance; the rebels "we have nothing to do with it, we reaffirm our commitment to peace" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The rebels of the Mouvement des Forces Démocratiques de Casamance (MFDC) stress that they have nothing to with the massacre of 13 young loggers killed on 6 January in a forest in this region of S ...
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  8 January 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - 300 thousand rosaries made with commitment and hope by prisoners for the Pope's visit Lima (Agenzia Fides) - For three months, prisoners of twelve Peruvian prisons made about 300 thousand rosaries. This initiative of the National Penitentiary Institute, in coordination with the Archdiocese of Lima, will ...
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  8 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Pinto: "The commitment of lay Catholics is the flagship for the Church in Pakistan" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic community in Pakistan is multilingual and multicultural, includes people from various tribes, ethnic groups, nations and cultures. The main challenge we face is the shortage of pri ...
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  8 January 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A priest engaged in peace attacked in Bangassou Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A priest engaged in dialogue and reconciliation in the Central African Republic was attacked by unknown persons. We are talking about Fr. Alain Blaise Bissialo, parish priest of the parish of Chr ...
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  8 January 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The country has been experiencing a critical social situation for 50 days: a new strike El Alto (Agenzia Fides) - "What are we doing to make the population receive true justice?" asked Mgr. Eugenio Scarpellini, Bishop of the diocese of El Alto and National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. "Befo ...
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  5 January 2018
  AMERICA - In Chile and Peru, private meetings of indigenous representatives with the Pope Temuco (Chile) - In the next visit to Chile and Peru (January 15 to 21), on two occasions the Pope will have lunch, in private, with a small group of representatives of the indigenous peoples, historically persecuted, di ...
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  5 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new year in the sign of dialogue Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh religious leaders who smile, embrace each other, pray together for peace, hope for harmonious coexistence in society, commit themselves against all forms of viol ...
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  5 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - 5 dead, 134 churches surrounded, 6 priests arrested; is the provisional report of the 31 December repression Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nunciature in the Democratic Republic of Congo has published a first, yet provisional, report of the violence suffered by the Church following the brutal repression of the march o ...
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  5 January 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - The "iron church" reopens. The restoration of churches and synagogues become part of Erdogan's "geopolitics" Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The historic Bulgarian church of Sveti Stefan (Saint Steven), overlooking the Golden Horn, is preparing to reopen its doors to the faithful and visitors after extensive restoration work, which ...
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  5 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindus who read the Bible threatened by extremists Bareilly (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 70 faithful Hindus in Uttar Pradesh, who in the past 4 years gather to read the Bible, have been threatened and targeted by Hindu extremist groups such as Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) ...
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  5 January 2018
  VATICAN - Missionary Childhood Day: "Children are the present of the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Children are our present rather than the future: it is in our care to make them experience the joy, prayer and sharing even in difficulties. And with a truly universal spirit: I would like ...
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  5 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Monsengwo: "Agreements must be respected" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The victims of December 31 died because they reminded us that pacta sunt servanda" said Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa during a mass celebrated in the cathedral of ...
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  4 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu radicals attack a Catholic college Vidisha (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of police deployment was done at the St. Mary's Post Graduate College in Vidisha, Sagar Diocese in Madhya Pradesh, central India as Hindu right-wing groups threaten to perform Hindu ri ...