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  22 February 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - More than 650 participants at the V National Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, February 25 the V National Congress of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (CONIAM) begins in Caracas, with the arrival of 650 participants from across the country. The aim of the ...
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  22 February 2017
  AMERICA/HAITI - About 4,000 prisoners awaiting justice, deaths due to starvation and degradation increase Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, 21 February, at St. Anne's Church in Port au Prince, Father Jean Robert Louis celebrated in the presence of family members, the funeral of 20 inmates of the National Penitentia ...
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  22 February 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Israeli army begins the demolition of Bedouin villages. Even the "School" at risk Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli army bulldozers have already taken action to implement the announced demolition of Bedouin villages situated within the territories of the occupied West Bank, east of Jerusalem, in ...
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  22 February 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lynching in Lahore: 42 Christians convicted of terrorism Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Lahore anti-terrorist court sentenced 42 Christians for terrorism. As Fides learns, the Court pronounced the sentence for Christian citizens accused of lynching which occurred after the terroris ...
• 22 February 2017
  VATICAN - Pope's Appeal for South Sudan: commit not to stop at making statements Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the general audience today in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father launched an appealed for the tragic situation in South Suda, with these words: "Of particular concern is the painful ...
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  22 February 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Bogota sends a special anti-kidnapping team to investigate the kidnapping of the Colombian nun Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The special Guala anti-kidnapping group of Colombia's National Police was sent to Mali to help local authorities to find Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti of the Congregation of the Francisca ...
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  22 February 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - One more seat reserved for Christians in the new bill on parliament Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A bill to review the distribution of seats in the House of Representatives among the different Iraqi electoral districts, published by the relevant parliamentary institutions on Monday, February ...
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  21 February 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Thousands of victims due to air pollution: for the Church "conscience and action" are needed New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Eighteen thousand Indians die every day from direct or indirect causes of air pollution. And the progressive air poisoning is often linked to climate change. This is what a new study published ...
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  21 February 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Marine Le Pen in Lebanon: even Middle Eastern Christians must be helped. Meeting with the Grand Mufti canceled, meeting with Maronite Patriarch Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The best way to protect Christians in the Middle East consists in the "eradication of radical Islam", while we must avoid policies that encourage the exodus of Middle Eastern Christians from thei ...
• 21 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - State of emergency declared in Unity State: 100,000 people at risk of hunger Juba (Agenzia Fides) - More than 100,000 people are at risk of hunger in Unity State, in the region of the Upper Nile, South Sudan. The state of food emergency has been declared by the government in Juba and United Natio ...
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  21 February 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Still waiting for the election results, the Bishops call for truth and transparency Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "The final results of every popular election must always reflect the virtues of justice and the value of transparency. Political institutions have to guarantee them and build trust, the foundatio ...
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  21 February 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Even the voice "religion" in the application forms for the next census Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in 30 years, the census of the Egyptian population, conducted by the Central Agency for public monilization and Statistics will also include a field for religious. Abu Bakr Gend ...
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  21 February 2017
  VATICAN - Death of Fr. Galbiati, PIME: he was Secretary General of the PMU and POPF Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of Saturday, February 18, Father Fernando Galbiati died in Lecco. He was a missionary in China, twelfth Superior General of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), Gene ...
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  21 February 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Monsengwo denounces: Acts of vandalism against the Church Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a resurgence of fear, anger, uncertainty", says Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a message sent to Agenzia F ...
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  21 February 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church on the situation of migrants: "legal, political and social solutions are no longer an option, they are imperative issues" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Due to the executive orders of President Donald Trump, a hostile environment, insecurity, uncertainty and terror has been created concerning thousands of people who are accused of being cri ...