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  1 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Trafficking, sexual abuse and early marriages: girls are the main victims Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - In northern Mexico, 3 out of four children, victims of sexual exploitation, are forced to marry early, most of them less than 16 years of age. The complaint comes from a study carried out by a g ...
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  1 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Soldiers and sailors, anonymous heroes who give hope to citizens scared by violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Mexico is aware of the fact that at the moment our country is experiencing a crisis, where crime impoverishes the nation, because of criminal organizations that have expanded ...
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  1 June 2017
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The National Director of the PMS: "Islamism grows, but many Muslims appreciate us" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Bangladesh is worrying with regards to the rise of terrorist groups that are said to be linked to the Islamic State. A couple of months ago also the guard of my parish, Santa Rita ...
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  1 June 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - "What is the aim of the article on alleged hidden accounts of the Bishops?" asks the Episcopal Conference Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We are fully at the service of the Church's works", says a statement by the Bishops' Conference of Mali, sent to Fides, in response to the article published by the newspaper "Le Monde", accordin ...
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  1 June 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Dramatic situation, children and sick people die Maturín (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in the Country is dramatic, there is no food and people have reached the limit of tolerance". This is what His Exc. Mgr. Enrique Pérez Lavado, Bishop of the diocese of Maturín, ...
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  1 June 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The siege of Marawi: children like human shields and soldiers Marawi (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us pray for Fr. Chito Suganob, so that he has perseverance in faith and so that the Lord gives him and his friends, who were abducted by terrorists, the grace of strength. Hostages can never ...
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  30 May 2017
  VATICAN - The Cardinal at the PMS Assembly: "The Gospel is never fully announced" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Only God sends on mission, involving us in His Son’s Pasqual mystery. Nobody receives the mission except he who, in faith, discovers himself being sent, involved in the merciful love that saves ...
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  30 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Huatla launches drought alert in Sierra Mazateca in Oaxaca Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - After more than 20 days without rain, the Mazateca region is going through the worst crisis ever suffered as a result of drought, along with the lack of medical services. This situation has alrea ...
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  30 May 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishop of Marawi: "Video appeal of Fr. Chito: critical phase, we fear for the lives of the hostages" Marawi (Agenzia Fides) - "Terrorists have sought contact with the military and the institutions. They released a video where Fr. Soganub Teresito, called Fr. Chito, one of the group of about 15 Catholic hostages, launche ...
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  30 May 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Still two thousand Muslim refugees in the diocese of Bangassou; testimony of the Bishop to Fides Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Two thousand Muslims still find themselves in the Catholic mission. A part in the Minor Seminary, the others in the Cathedral and in the Bishop’s House", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Ju ...
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  30 May 2017
  ASIA - Young Christian ambassadors of peace in Asia Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - Young ambassadors of peace in Asia: this is the theme of the seminar which began at the headquarters of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) in Chiang Mai on Monday, 29 May 2017. The traini ...
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  30 May 2017
  AMERICA/CUBA - Cuban Bishops close to the suffering and uncertainty of Venezuelans Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "In these difficult moments of the life of Venezuelan people, we are not alien to the suffering and uncertainty that Venezuelans live", writes the President of the Cuban episcopal Conference His ...
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  30 May 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Caritas Campaign in view of the annual collection: poor people always on the rise Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Argentina is carrying out a national campaign in view of its annual collection for the needy, inviting to express solidarity through a concrete gesture that effectively helps transf ...
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  29 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Cardinal Robles Ortega asks for clarification on the murder of two indigenous wixarika leaders Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, after Sunday Mass yesterday asked to clarify the events related to the assassination of indigenous leaders of Wixarika ...
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  29 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Priests in Guayana: "We cannot keep silent in the face of repression" Guyana (Agenzia Fides) - Priests and deacons of the Diocese of Ciudad Guayana (Venezuela) wrote a letter to the "pilgrim people of our beloved land and to all men of good will" to express a profound rejection of every ex ...