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  15 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Anglican Bishop: "Soldiers attacked a village and rape women and girls" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - An Anglican Bishop has accused the South Sudan army (SPLA) of mass rapes and violence against civilians in the state of Eastern Equatoria. "We do not know the exact number of women who were raped b ...
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  15 February 2017
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni at the seminar on Laity and Mission: "When a person feels loved, he opens to the Gospel" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – A seminar on "Laity and Mission", organized by the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) and the International Centre for Missionary Animation (CIAM), with th ...
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  15 February 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Regional elections: Catholics ask for an honest, fair and transparent vote Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "May the elections be honest, fair and transparent; voting is a necessity and an obligation for all citizens": say the five Catholic organizations in a joint appeal titled "Our vote is for the n ...
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  14 February 2017
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Initiatives, meetings and prayer for the sick of the diocese of Fianarantsoa Fianarantsoa (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the recent celebration of the World Day of the Sick, the community of Fianarantsoa gathered for two retreats at the Jean Marie Vianney childhood building, in Ambalapaiso. ...
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  14 February 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Wayuu denounce a state of neglect as the cause of death regarding malnourished children La Guajira (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the precautionary measures taken by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Wayuu indigenous people continue to suffer from malnutrition. The complaint comes from t ...
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  14 February 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Demonstration of Christian Iraqi refugees: we do not want to go back to our Country Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – On February 13, a small procession of about two hundred Christian Iraqi refugees staged a symbolic demonstration outside the local UN headquarters in downtown Beirut to demand their requests to ...
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  14 February 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Ban to celebrate St. Valentine’s: Catholics oppose Bandung (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocesan Commission for the laity in the Diocese of Bandung contests a circular banning students to celebrate Valentine's Day. West Java Education Agency head Ahmad Hadadi signed the measu ...
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  14 February 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico closed between two walls Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Mexican public opinion remains divided on the construction of the "Trump wall" in the north with the United States, but begins to wonder about the wall that Mexico continues to strengthen al ...
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  14 February 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New ethnic violence in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Three people were killed and 13 abducted. This is the toll of yet another ethnic attack which took place in Rutshuru Territory in North Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. As rep ...
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  14 February 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The meeting of the National Indigenous and Missionaries show interest in Arco Minero Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Seven years after the last meeting between the indigenous population and missionaries working in Venezuela, the Department of Missions of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela, in collaboration ...
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  14 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A general denounces: "The army has become an instrument of ethnic cleansing of the President" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A top army general of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), has resigned from the government, accusing President Salva Kiir and SPLA leadership of pursuing a tribal agenda in the country. L ...
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  14 February 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - US Group to Trump: To create "protected areas" for Iraqi Christians is part of our "national security interests" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The new US administration is called upon to designate a "Safe Zone" for Iraqi Christians in the Nineveh Plain, and other "safe zones" including Yazidis and Turkmen. And that is because Christ ...
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  13 February 2017
  AFRICA/CHAD - Hepatitis E outbreak: need to improve water and sanitation N'djamena (Agenzia Fides) - A hepatitis E outbreak is escalating across Am Timan, in the Salamat region of South-Eastern Chad. This is what the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Méd ...
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  13 February 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Violence in the rural area increases, yesterday the memory of Dorothy Stang’s testimony Anapu (Agenzia Fides) - Families of farmers from Anapu in the south of Pará (Brazil), yesterday February 12 gathered to commemorate the death of Sister Dorothy Stang which happened 12 years ago. The nun was killed becau ...
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  13 February 2017
  VATICAN - "Omnis Terra" magazine of culture and mission of the Pontifical Mission Societies, again online Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The publications of "Omnis Terra", the magazine of culture, mission and news analysis published by the International Secretariats of the Pontifical Mission Societies resumes today, Februa ...