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  25 January 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Muslim family in Telkeif secretly hosts a Christian woman in the years of the jihadist regime Telkeif (Agenzia Fides) –Government troops found the Christian Iraqi, Georgette Hanna, 60 years old in the house of a Muslim family in the town of Telkeif last week when they regained the town which was for almost thre ...
• 25 January 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A catechist of Kajo-Keji parish killed Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A catechist of the parish of the Sacred Heart of Kajo-Keji (South Sudan) was killed on Sunday, January 22 in the chapel in the city of Lomin. This was reported by the parish priest, Fr. Jesus Arand ...
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  25 January 2017
  AFRICA/GABON - "Let us say no to violence" urge the Bishops, while the situation remains tense Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - "The current situation in our country is very worrying and calls us all into question" say the Catholic Bishops of Gabon in the message published at the end of the Plenary Assembly of the Bis ...
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  25 January 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President al Sisi suggests a ground-breaking legislation to delegalize Islamic divorces "verbally" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The divorce rate among the Egyptian Islamic population is growing exponentially, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi suggests a ground-breaking legislation to delegalize divorces "verbally" d ...
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  25 January 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Restore dignity to women and include them in the working world Serang (Agenzia Fides) - The status of women is very precarious in Indonesia, they often remain isolated from the working world and very often work without receiving any salary. The phenomenon is widespread in Pandeglang ...
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  25 January 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - No water, bread, fuel, electricity in the capital of South Kordofan Kadugli (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to flour and fuel shortages, since early this year the inhabitants of Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan, complain of serious problems due to lack of drinking water and electrici ...
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  24 January 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Chávez Botello to reporters: "nourish the social conscience, because it is very weak" Antequera (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Antequera, Oaxaca (Mexico), His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Chávez Botello, anticipating the feast of St. Francis de Sales, Patron of journalists, wanted to celebrate the feast yes ...
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  24 January 2017
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The Bishops denounce "a deleterious climate which threatens to undermine the achievements made" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - National reconciliation, release of all persons detained in relation to the political-military crisis of 2002-2011, redistribution of wealth for greater social justice. These are the indications ...
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  24 January 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. - Institute in favor of good education and the care of children awarded in Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Nicolas Barre Institute, school supported by the non-profit organization Friends for Central Africa, was the most awarded in Bangui on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the Enseignement C ...
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  24 January 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Denunciation of violence against children employed as domestic servants without pay Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Six out of ten children have been victims of different types of violence in Paraguay, caused in particular by the environment surrounding them. This is what emerged from the complaint of the Co ...
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  24 January 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Debate to amend the blasphemy law in Senate Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The debate to amend the controversial "blasphemy law", composed of the articles of the Penal Code that punish with life imprisonment or the death penalty insults against Islam has begun in the ...
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  24 January 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Instrumentum laboris for the 2018 American Missionary Congress is ready Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - After celebrating the two international Symposiums of Missiology in Puerto Rico and Uruguay, the Theological Commission has prepared the Instrumentum laboris which will guide the work of the Fif ...
• 24 January 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Bamenda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father appointed rev. Michael Miabesue Bibi, Secretary-Chancellor of the archdiocese as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Bamenda (Cameroon), assigning him the titular ...
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  24 January 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Bishop offers a donation for the restoration of the mosque Qena (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Orthodox Bishop Takla, at the head of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Dishna, in the governorate of Qena, has offered a donation to finance the restoration of the historic mosque dedicated to ...
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  24 January 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Mgr. Ambongo: "The implementation agreement will have to be signeded within the 28th" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Within January 28 the implementation agreement of the understandings reached on December 31, 2016 between the majority and opposition in the Democratic Republic of Congo will have to be signed ...