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  17 March 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church establishes National Youth Day Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - National Youth Day will be held every year on the first Sunday of August, which will unite all young Indian Catholics and will be a time to witness the Gospel, celebrated at a diocesan level: ...
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  17 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Jesuit missions unite Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay once again Misiones (Agenzia Fides) - In a bilateral meeting between leaders of the state governments of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and Misiones (Argentina), a commitment to return to the path that links 30 historical Jesuit missio ...
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  16 March 2017
  AMERICA - The unexpected intensity of the rains cause deaths and displaced people in Ecuador and Peru Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The intense rains in recent weeks in various regions of Ecuador and Peru continue to cause damage to people, animals, crops and infrastructure. In Ecuador, during the rainy season, known as the equ ...
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  16 March 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Meeting of Bishops and leaders of the Indigenous Pastoral of the Southern Cone Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile will be present to share their experiences and pastoral plans from 15 to 17 March, in Santiago, Chile. The meeting aims to share ex ...
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  16 March 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops: Justice for the 40 girls who died in the Guatemalan fire Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "The tragedy at the Hogar Virgen de la Asunción reception center was not a simple accident, but the tragic end of an irregular situation that had been denounced so many times", said the ...
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  16 March 2017
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "The only thing that matters is daily survival. You cannot make plans for the future" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - A Country that can only think of daily survival and is unable to plan for the future: Malawi has for a long time found itself in a serious economic, political and food crisis. Fr. Piergiorgio G ...
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  16 March 2017
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - 90 years of the founding of the diocese of Pyongyang: a Mass and an exhibition for the Catholics of North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In 2017, the Catholic diocese of Pyongyang celebrates its 90th anniversary of foundation: for the occasion the Archdiocese of Seoul has organized a series of initiatives, like a special Mass and a ...
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  16 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Talks mediated by the Bishops between majority and opposition resume today Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Talks between the majority and the opposition regarding the implementation of the San Silvestro agreements resume today, 16 March, in order to give the DRC a national unity government that will ...
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  16 March 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Aoun meets the Pope while Lebanese Maronite Christians call for more political representation Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Lebanon, Michel Aoun was received today, Thursday, March 16, by Pope Francis in the Vatican. In the course of the visit, Michel Aoun also met with the Cardinal Secretary of State ...
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  15 March 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops condemn the bill that allows abortion even in cases of poverty La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Episcopal Conference is contrary to Parliament’s draft law laying down various causes that justify abortion, including poverty. "The proposal distorts the criminal justice system, ...
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  15 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The threats of drug traffickers force the transfer of a priest Moreno (Agenzia Fides) - With a letter signed by the Bishop of the diocese of Merlo-Moreno, His Exc. Mgr. Fernando Carlos Maletti, was informed that Fr. Eduardo Farrell will be transferred from Sagrado Corazon parish, du ...
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  15 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Already 200 murders in 2017 in Tijuana: Mgr. Moreno calls for a plan to stop violence Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - "Violence in Tijuana does not stop, rather it increases every day and seems it afflicts insecurity throughout the country. The authorities in Baja California Nord have to face this sad reality", ...
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  15 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Violence against children and adolescents increased in 2016 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In the annual analysis of the report Somos Noticia, relative to 2016, the NGO Centro Comunitario de Aprendizaje (Cecodap), highlighted alarming results. In the note sent to Fides, the general co ...
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  15 March 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Prime Minister Sharif: punish blasphemy on web and abuse of the law, to protect minorities Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif intervened again on the issue of blasphemy. Sharif ordered to remove "blasphemous" content on websites and social media in Pakistan and to punish t ...
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  15 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Two UN experts kidnapped in central Kasai Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "On March 13, CEPADHO learned with dismay about the abduction of Michael Sharp and Zahida Katala of the UN Expert Group for the Democratic Republic of Congo", said a statement sent to Agenzia F ...