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  19 April 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "0 street children" program: education and rehabilitation Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - With the intention of preventing children under 12 years of age living in the street, the Office for the Protection of Childhood and Adolescence of the City of Cochabamba, is carrying out the ...
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  19 April 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Motion of no confidence against Zuma; "Vote according to conscience": appeal from Justice and Peace to parlamentarians Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – There is tension in South Africa where in recent days tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demand the resignation of South African President Jacob Zuma, involved in a series ...
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  19 April 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Elections in Jakarta, Christian candidate defeated Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - While the vote count is underway, all the projections made on the basis of polling stations already counted in the runoff election ballot for the election of the new governor of Jakarta attribut ...
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  12 April 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “To run for re-election is inopportune and a threat to peace”, says Bishop Jubinville San Pedro (Agenzia Fides) – “Inopportune and a threat to peace”. This is how the Bishop of San Pedro, Pierre Laurent Jubinville, C.S.Sp., regards a proposed bill to change Paraguay’s Constitution, in order to al ...
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  12 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Following Palm Sunday massacre Easter for Coptic Christians in Egypt will be quiet prayer remembering the victims Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Easter for the Copt community here will be celebrated quietly in a spirit of prayer and in remembrance of those killed in the Palm Sunday attack last week. Traditional Copt meetings with state, ...
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  12 April 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Holy Week marred by episodes of religious intolerance New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Christians in India fear new episodes of intolerance and disturbance during this Easter season. Fides received reports of incidents in six different states of India, episodes of harassmen ...
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  12 April 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Wau is calm again although thousands are still sheltering in a church AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Wau is calm again although thousands are still sheltering in a church Juba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudan authorities have imposed a curfew throughout the State of Wau (north-west South Sudan) aft ...
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  12 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Holy Week of solidarity: Miranda food sharing Los Teques (Agenzia Fides) – "We live in very difficult times marked by scarcity of medicines and security: we must turn our hearts back towards God, He alone can help us overcome these tragic times. And we must ope ...
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  12 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Bishop Antonios Mina says Copts have no need of “defense” from abroad AFRICA/EGYPT – Egyptian Bishop Antonios Mina says Copts have no need of “defense” from abroad Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – After the massacres of Coptic Christians, disputes and arguments have resumed also in Egypt� ...
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  11 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Franciscan brother murdered, food provisions for old people and disabled children stolen Aragua (Agenzia Fides) –Franciscan Brother Diego Bedoya, a member of Hermanos Franciscanos de la Cruz Blanca (White Cross Franciscan Brothers) who runs Casa Hogar in the town of La Victoria, Aragua state of Venezuela, ...
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  11 April 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Winner of the recent Rome female Marathon hails from Catholic Mission in Kofale Kofale (Agenzia Fides) – Rahma Chota Tusa has won the Rome female Marathon for two years running. Rahma was born in Kofale, Ethiopia, where she grew up and trained at the Catholic Mission Sports Centre in Kofale (see ...
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  11 April 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Archbishop Valenzuela insists on dialogue, 18 April peace talks third session Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday 10 April Archbishop Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid S.D.B., of Asunción, called on parties opposed to plans for presidential re-election, to reflect and participate in the Dialo ...
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  11 April 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Another evangelical church is torched Temuco (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of the diocese of Temuco, Héctor Vargas has firmly condemned the latest act of torching of yet another Evangelical church building in the district of Ercilla, yesterday. The gover ...
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  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - new Archbishop of Nampula and Apostolico Administrator of Tete appointed Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis, 11 April 2017 has appointed as Archbishop of Nampula (Mozambique) Bishop Inácio Saúre, I.M.C., until now Bishop of Tete. The Holy Father has appointed ...
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  ASIA/MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE and BRUNEI - Appointment of PMS National Director Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 2 March 2017 appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in ...