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  13 December 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: "our martyrs bind us to Heaven" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "Our martyrs, and the act of martyrdom in itself, bind us to heaven, and make our hearts rise up to those who are already there, and from there they intercede for us". This is how Coptic Orthodo ...
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  13 December 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The prison, from death trap to a place of hope, thanks to a missionary initiative Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Prison in Zomba, a death trap", is the headline in the Sunday Times on December 4, 2016. "For years this prison is part of the history of Malawi. Built in 1937 in what was a kind of refugee ca ...
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  13 December 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Casa Hogar Karike for poor and vulnerable children Chihuahua (Agenzia Fides) - The Casa Hogar Karike was opened five years ago thanks to the generosity of a lady who welcomed three poor and abandoned children in her house. Since then visitors have increased and the needs ...
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  13 December 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Solidarity Network for Migrants and Refugees: "we do not ask for privileges but specific policies" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The XII National Meeting of the Solidarity Network for Migrants and Refugees (RedeMir) took place at the Cultural Center of Brasilia (CCB). The event (from December 5 to 7) was promoted by Migr ...
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  13 December 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the anxiety in the heart for many immigrants Pittsburgh (Agenzia Fides) - Dozens of children lined the main aisle of St. Paul's Cathedral in Oakland-Pittsburgh, wearing the native dress of Latin America and holding up flags of their countries, accompanied by the so ...
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  13 December 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bishops to the government: "We urgently need a moratorium on the death penalty" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Indonesian Bishops have officially asked the government for a moratorium on the death penalty. As reported to Fides by Fr. Paulus Christian Siswantoko, executive secretary of the Commission ...
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  12 December 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church celebrates its new martyrs; Also the President at the commemoration for the victims Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi is also present at the commemorations which take place this morning to honor the victims of the attack perpetrated yesterday, Sunday, December 11, during the M ...
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  12 December 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The opposition: "the mediation of Bishops proceeds well" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The negotiations under the auspices of the Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) "proceed well" says the ''Union of the political and social forces for change", better known as "le Rassemblemen ...
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  12 December 2016
  ASIA/LAOS - Laos has its first martyrs Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - Historic Step for the Catholic Church in Laos where yesterday December 11, the solemn liturgy of beatification of 17 new martyrs, including missionaries and lay Laotians was held in the Cathed ...
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  12 December 2016
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The "bacha posh": little girls dressed as boys to avoid early marriages with adults Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - Afghan families who want to protect their underage girls from early marriages are having to decide whether to hide their sex to avoid grown men to marry them. Parents who choose not to be groped b ...
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  12 December 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Baez: "To promote human rights, it is urgent to renew the entire political structure" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, His Exc. Mgr. Silvio Jose Baez, on Friday, December 9 celebrated a Mass to recall the efforts of human rights defenders in Nicaragua. During h ...
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  12 December 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Martinez Zepeda: After 10 years of the army on the streets, the police must become stronger Irapuato (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent that the municipal and state police across the country become stronger, so that the military army gradually go back to their barracks, because for the past 10 years they have been ...
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  12 December 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Diocese of Maiduguri: "We fear new attacks during the Christmas period" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "There are fears that this attack might mark the beginning of a series of Boko Haram attacks during the Christmas period" says Fr. Gideon Obasogie, Director of Social Communications of the Diocese ...
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  12 December 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence on Ahmadis, in defiance of the rule of law Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Arbitrary actions are committed both by public forces and by a masse of radical Muslims, carried out in defiance of the rule of law and fundamental freedoms of every citizen of Pakistan: this is ...
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  9 December 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Bishops' message: renounce violence, restore confidence, renew oneself at all levels Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A strong appeal for the renunciation of violence in all its forms and the wish that this Christmas may be for all Haitians an inexhaustible source of joy, peace and love: these are the fe ...