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  20 January 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A year after the kidnapping, Cardinal Onaiyekan recalls Fr. Oyaka, whose fate we know nothing Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - For over a year there has been no news of Fr. Gabriel Oyaka, a Nigerian Spiritan father (Congregation of the Holy Spirit), who was kidnapped on September 7, 2015 in Kogi State (see Fides 10/09/201 ...
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  20 January 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bishops of the "Holy Land Coordination": let us oppose the "de facto annexation" perpetrated through illegal settlements Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - The military occupation for fifty years on the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza violated "the human dignity of both Palestinians and Israelis". And now all the people responsible are called ...
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  20 January 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - "The country wants the truth": the Bishops on corruption and the Sodality of Christian Life Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of Peru, at the conclusion of the 109th Ordinary Assembly, issued a statement, also sent to Fides, in which it expressed solidarity with the victims of natural disasters wh ...
• 20 January 2017
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Appointment of the Bishop of Kerema Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 January 2017 the Holy Father appointed Fr. Pedro Baquero, SDB, Vicar Provincial of the Salesians of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands as Bishop of the Diocese of Kerema (Papua New ...
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  20 January 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - More than 4,500 children reunited with their families, more than 16 thousand recruited as soldiers Juba (Agenzia Fides) - At least 4,563 children have been reunited with their families in South Sudan, some of them after years of separation. "Since 2013, 9,046 cases of children also remain active and open requiring ong ...
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  20 January 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - Father Santoro’s killer provides an unbelievable version of the murder Trabzon (Agenzia Fides) - Oğuzhan Akdin, the 26-year-old murderer of Don Andrea Santoro, after his early release - which took place last August - has released for the first time to the Turkish press his version of the m ...
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  19 January 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Return to smile": medical campaign of reconstructive surgery for children Cartagena (Agenzia Fides) - This year doctors and volunteers of the American NGO Healing The Children will carry out a selection among children between 0 to 17 years of age, who need reconstructive surgery. "Return to sm ...
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  19 January 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Movimiento de Santuario" has over 800 points of reference for immigrants Tucson (Agenzia Fides) - Few hours before the new President of the United States takes office, many churches and religious congregations have joined the "Movimiento de sanctuary", over 800 points of reference, to offer p ...
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  19 January 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - PMS Director of Morocco: "When there is friendship between Christians and Muslims, there is no fear" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Simeon Czeslaw Stachera, Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Morocco and Vicar General of Tangier, is above all a missionary". This is how the Director of the PMS in Spain, Father An ...
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  19 January 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Two Christians have disappeared in Kachin state, while the conflict continues Myitkyina (Agenzia Fides) - Two ethnic Kachin Christian leaders have disappeared in Kachin state, Burmese state where fighting between separatist groups and the regular army continues and where the flow of refugees conti ...
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  19 January 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo awaits the arrival of Cardinal Zenari. Bishop Khazen: "he will visit hospitals, refugee camps and devastated churches" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Mario Zenari, Apostolic Nuncio in Syria, is expected to arrive in Aleppo in the early afternoon today, Thursday, January 19, for a visit full of commitments and meetings that will contin ...
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  19 January 2017
  AFRICA/GAMBIA - President Barrow takes office in the Gambian embassy in Dakar; first step for the Pan-African military intervention? Banjul (Agenzia Fides) - The elected President of Gambia, Adama Barrow, will be sworn in today, January 19, at the Gambian Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, where he took refuge after outgoing President, Yahya Jammeh, decided n ...
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  19 January 2017
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - New military and police protests, raid against Ucao Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Several areas of the Ivory Coast are in the grip of protests by military, gendarmes, police and customs officers who take to the streets, firing into the air and intimidating civilians. From Abi ...
• 17 January 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Reappointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Andrew Small OMI Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 4, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the reappointment of Fr. Andrew Small, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immacu ...
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  16 January 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The case of the old Copt woman from Karm, beaten and stripped naked by fanatical Islamists, suspended for "lack of evidence" Minya (Agenzia Fides) - Prosecutors in Egypt's central governorate of Minya have suspended investigations into an assault on a 70-year-old Coptic Christian woman, Suan Thabet, who was stripped naked and paraded in the st ...