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  2 May 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Controversy on the Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros. Coptic Catholic Bishop: predictable criticism, let us move on Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Joint Declaration signed on Friday 28 April in Cairo by Pope Francis and Catholic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros is causing various kinds of reactions within the Orthodox Coptic Church. In paragr ...
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  2 May 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians and Muslims in Punjab, among violence and gestures of friendship Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An armed group of 20 to 25-year-old Islamic youths on motorcycles attacked a Christian neighborhood of Bhai Pheru in the Kasur district of Pakistani Punjab in recent days, terrorizing the communi ...
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  28 April 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops’ Assembly: prayers for Venezuela and preparations for next visit Ad Limina Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – A solemn concelebration of mass presided by Archbishop Oscar Aparicio of Cochabamba, also vice president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bolivia (CEB), yesterday, 27 April opened t ...
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  28 April 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - 8th Pan-Amazon Social Forum FOSPA opens today 28 April Tarapoto (Agenzia Fides) – The 8th Pan-Amazon Social Forum FOSPA opens today 28 April in Tarapoto, Peru. FOSPA is a privileged forum in which to present proposals and alternatives promoted in the Pan-Amazon civil soci ...
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  28 April 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Wolisso Hospital Auditorium named in memory of Fr Luigi Mazzucato Wolisso (Agenzia Fides) – A ceremony has just ended to name the Aula Magna/Auditorium at Wolisso Hospital after Fr Luigi Mazzucato, Italian director for many years of CUAMM Medici with Africa. “He loved this ho ...
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  28 April 2017
  AMERICA/EQUADOR - A missionary bishop to head the Bishops’ Conference Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ecuador (CEE) has chosen as its new chairman Bishop Eugenio Arellano Fernández, M.C.C.I., of the Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas. He takes the place ...
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  28 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Copt Orthodox sources: the Pope and the Patriarch could sign a joint declaration with reference to the practice of re-baptism Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Copt Orthodox Bishop Raphael, Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Copt Orthodox Church, denied and rejected as misleading, certain rumours circulated on Egyptian media on the eve of Pope Francis� ...
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  28 April 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A Jesuit: “In Indonesia it is not yet time for a Christian national leader” Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – “Indonesia has not yet reached the moment for a Christian political leader at the national level, as president, vice president or governor of Jakarta. We must have patience and look at hi ...
• 27 April 2017
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - National Pontifical Mission Societies Director Fr. Antonio Batista Lopes confirmed Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 2 March 2017, confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in P ...
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  27 April 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Bishop Espinal: “Corruption feeds social inequality and can destabilise the government ” San Fernando de Montecristi (Agenzia Fides) – Demonstrations by a social movement of protest against the incompetence of the authorities cannot destabilise a government, the only thing which can endanger the stability ...
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  27 April 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Serious scarcity of clean water in Port Sudan aggravates plight of displaced persons Port Sudan (Agenzia Fides) – Displaced persons in Nyala, capital of South Darfur, have very little water to drink because of faulty wells and pumps. The tanks that supply Port Sudan do not have enough water for the ...
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  27 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Vatican is ready to help, only “when the conditions exist for effective and genuine dialogue to resolve the difficulties” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See is following carefully the delicate situation in Venezuela and is ready to help if and when there are real conditions for effective dialogue and not for a " political show". This ...
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  27 April 2017
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Bishops criticise brutal arrest of the country’s main Opposition leader Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)- The Police Service may not be used “to settle political scores”. This warning was issued by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Zambia (ZCCB) following the brutal arrest of Opposition leader ...
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  27 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT- Bishop Kyrillos: al Azhar Conference is preparing a statement on "a renewal of the religious approach" Assiut (Agenzia Fides) – The International Conference for Peace hosted by al Azhar Sunni University, in Cairo which will have its climax in the afternoon of Friday 28 April with a speech by Pope Francis, “will issu ...
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  27 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “There must be pressure to reach a democratic solution ” says Bishop Pérez Lavado Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – "There must be a peaceful solution, elections, but to reach this goal there is need of pressure at very high levels, perhaps extreme, in order to find a democratic solution, which is what e ...