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  21 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Over 12,000 poor children in Bariloche Bariloche (Agenzia Fides) - A group of social organizations of the Movement for Children of Bariloche, a town in northwestern Patagonia in the foothills of the Andes, has issued a statement expressing their opposition to ...
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  21 March 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "It is impossible to live here": says Mgr. Garcia on the violence in Upper Baudo Chocó (Agenzia Fides) - "Violence in Upper Baudo does not stop. The communities along the Baudo and San Juan rivers are living a serious humanitarian crisis, and many have begun to flee", said His Exc. Mgr. Julio Hernan ...
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  21 March 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Sharing means evangelizing: a rosary for the mission in the Somali Region Gode (Agenzia Fides) - More than a year without water, dead livestock along the dirt roads, deaths due to cholera every day, without medicine and medical personnel, and without even a thermometer to measure body temperat ...
• 21 March 2017
  VATICAN - Pope meets with the President of Rwanda: pain for the genocide and for the failings of the Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, March 20, at the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, received in Audience His Excellency Mr Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda. Subsequently, the Pr ...
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  21 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Arizmendi: "Lay down weapons once and for all" San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - After Mass on Sunday, March 19, the Bishop of San Cristobal de Las Casas, His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, called for a definitive solution to the conflict in the area ...
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  21 March 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - Internal divisions - the Armenian community behind the political interference in the election of the new Patriarch Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – Deputy Garo Paylan, Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament, submitted a written interpellation to Turkish Interior minister, Süleyman Soylu asking for clarification regarding the politica ...
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  21 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Mgr. Ambongo: "On March 27 the signing of the agreement to give a start to the new government" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, March 27 the agreement for the implementation of the San Silvestro agreements will be signed to give the DRC a national unity government to prepare legislative and presidential ele ...
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  21 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Anniversary of the killing of Fr. Machozi; light on the three Assumptionists kidnapped? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Dead City" in Butembo on the first anniversary of the assassination of Fr. Vincent Machozi, Assumptionist priest, who denounced the illegal exploitation of coltan in the region (see Fides 22/0 ...
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  21 March 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Tour operators: let us take the opportunity of the Pope’s visit to revive the "Way of the Holy Family" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis’ visit is a propitious occasion to promote Egypt as a destination for Christian pilgrimages and religious tourism, allowing the world to know the initiatives and measures put in pla ...
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  21 March 2017
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - A new president for political stability and economic well-being Dili (Agenzia Fides) - East Timor, which is the youngest Asian nation, yesterday voted for the presidential election, the first election since the UN peacekeeping troops left the country in 2012. The turnout in the Democ ...
• 20 March 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appointment of the Archbishop of Semarang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On March 18, 2017 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Robertus Rubiyatmoko, Judicial Vicar of the Archdiocese of Semarang and Formator at the Major Seminary, as Archbishop of Semarang (Indones ...
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  20 March 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Day of Prayer and national fund for flood victims Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "We are all witnesses of the harsh reality that thousands of Peruvians who have lost everything are living", say the Bishops of Peru following a major emergency that the country is experiencing due ...
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  20 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Diocese denounces: Another priest attacked by an armed group Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - "On the evening of March 16 alleged members of the police force in Coahuila, violently broke into the home of Father Robert Coogan Francis, Head of the Prison Ministry in the diocese, and after ...
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  20 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A health center for street children in the city of diamonds Mbuji-Mayi (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish NGO Manos Unidas will build a health center in order to assist street children in the Salesian Muetu Don Bosco complex in the city of Mbuji-Mayi, in the south-central Democratic ...
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  20 March 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Children are likely to lose a school year due to teachers' strikes San Juan de la Maguana (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana, His Exc. Mgr. José Dolores Grullon Estrella, warned that if teachers' strikes continue, this school year in the provinces of ...