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  10 May 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A Jesuit: "Islamic populism, danger for Indonesia" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - For many Indonesians, yesterday was a sad day. Defeated in the run-off in the elections for the seat of governor in Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a Protestant Christian of Chinese ethnicity, ...
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  10 May 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Mgr Olivera underlines: "Reconciliation means justice, reparation and truth" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Sometimes it is thought that the path of reconciliation also means impunity and to leave behind the serious crimes committed. Reconciliation is true only if it manages to reach reparation a ...
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  10 May 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Criticism and accusations against al Azhar and the Great Imam. But a Coptic Bishop defends them Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - After hosting the International Conference on Peace and having reserved a warm welcome to Pope Francis, during his visit to Egypt, the University of al Azhar is shaken by controversy and personal ...
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  10 May 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Interreligious forum: protecting children from violence and exploitation Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The V Forum of the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC) was inaugurated yesterday, May 9, by Panamanian Bishop Julio Murray. About 430 leaders of the world's leading religions and 60 c ...
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  10 May 2017
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - CELAM creates a commission to study the situation in Venezuela San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Juan Espinoza, auxiliary Bishop of Morelia (Mexico) and Secretary General of the Latin American Bishops' Council (CELAM) at the beginning of the XXXVI Ordinary General Assembly of CE ...
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  10 May 2017
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishops: "May the new president work for the peace and reconciliation of the Koreas" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Over the past year we went through the difficult moments of impeachment and anticipated presidential elections. Now the Korean people have elected a new president. We need a leader who paves the ...
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  9 May 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Testimony of a fidei donum missionary: "One can learn and receive so much from missio ad gentes" Adaba (Agenzia Fides) - "This is my house, rather my two parish houses: the first one in Adaba, where I live, the other in Dodola, where I go during the week and on Sunday", says to Fides Don Giuseppe Ghirelli, a fidei d ...
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  9 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "They want to impose a dictatorship disguised as democracy", warns Mgr. Lückert Coro (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Roberto Lückert, Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Coro (Venezuela), believes that the country can find peace if there are elections for governors and mayors. This could decrease th ...
• 9 May 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Hervé Tienou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 17, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of rev. Fr. Hervé Tienou of the diocese of San, as N ...
• 9 May 2017
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Fausto De Carvalho Rosado Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 24, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of rev. Fr. Fausto De Carvalho Rosado, CMF, as National ...
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  9 May 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Former Christian governor of Jakarta condemned for blasphemy: Christians appeal to the Pancasila Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as "Ahok", a Christian of Chinese ethnicity, former governor of Jakarta was found guilty and sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy by a court in Jakarta. I ...
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  9 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Torres condemns the blue Whale "game" on the internet that leads young people to suicide Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - "The Blue Whale game is to be condemned, it is a terrible epidemic, it is reprehensible", said the Bishop of Ciudad Juarez, Jose Guadalupe Torres Campos, asking parents to be careful when ...
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  9 May 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: "incendiary rhetoric" against Christians fuels Islamophobia Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Cases of preachers and self-proclaimed Muslim leaders, who from mosques and social media entrusted to them, define Christians, Jews and Gentiles as "infidels" and instigate their followers to tr ...
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  9 May 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - South Sudan is on the brink of collapse; people and students protest in Juba Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday students and citizens took to the streets in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, to protest the collapse of the country's economy. The protest had been convened by students and saw the part ...
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  9 May 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - An award for the Campaign against Child Labor: One and a half million child workers Lima (Agenzia Fides) - La Fundación Telefónica del Perú (see Fides 2/4/2014) received the Caracol de Plata Award for the campaign against child labor entitled "An appeal to indifference" launched on June 12, 2016 with ...