News

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  5 August 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Another church burned, for or against the Mapuche cause? Ercilla (Agenzia Fides) - A group of unidentified people attacked and burned a Catholic church in Pidima (Araucania, Chile), in the early hours of August 4 in the town of Ercilla. The church was completely destroyed, alt ...
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  5 August 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Caritas Lebanon reopens a Centre for refugee women Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A place to welcome, care for and accompany foreign women, who have often taken refuge in Lebanon and have been left alone or marginalized, with the risk of being victims of violence: this is the ...
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  5 August 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The hunt for albinos in Malawi caused by serious poverty originated by drought Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - More than 12 million people are at risk of hunger in southern Africa as reported by FAO (the UN food agency), due to drought caused by El Niño, a natural phenomenon originated by the warming w ...
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  5 August 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The army warns that it is ready to repress dissidence in the streets and on the web Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The army is ready to take to the streets to repress unrest and to combat "the detractors of our Country who use electronic means to mobilize the population to commit illegal activities". This is ...
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  5 August 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Do not kill": the Church's campaign against extrajudicial executions Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not kill" is the title of the campaign launched by the Catholic Church in the Philippines to promote respect for human life and deplore the long trail of extrajudicial executions in the count ...
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  4 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl converted to Islam by force escapes captors Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A deaf-mute Pakistani Christian girl was able to escape from a Muslim man who had kidnapped and forced her to convert to Islam and to Islamic marriage. Now, after the courageous act, the girl and ...
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  4 August 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Go and vote, despite the inappropriate conduct by Public Media" urges a Bishop Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "As Zambia goes to the poll on the 11th August, 2016 (feast of St. Clare of Assisi, ed.), we seek St. Clare’s intercession especially for those who are involved in various forms of media", says ...
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  4 August 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "National dialogue within the month of August in order not to worsen tensions" ask the Bishops Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Congolese political life is focused on the clash between President Joseph Kabila, who now seems determined to stay in office even after the expiry date of his second term, on December 20, a ...
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  4 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Bible studies teach forgiveness to believers of all religions in the Year of Mercy Nagpur (Agenzia Fides) – By attending and following the biblical study Course promoted during the Year of Mercy by "the Catholic Information Center" (CIC) in Nagpur (in central India) gave Sushma Suryawanshi, a Buddhis ...
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  3 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - More compensation for Christians, victims of the massacres Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Legal victory for the victims of anti-Christian massacres in Orissa: as Fides learns, the Supreme Court of India, that believe the compensation paid so far is "inadequate", ordered the gover ...
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  3 August 2016
  AMERICA - Argentina and Brazil have announced they do not support Venezuela as the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Crisis within Mercosur after Uruguay left the temporary presidency of the Common Market of South America on 29 July. The chair transfer should have taken place with Uruguay, handing the presi ...
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  3 August 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - "No to street drugs": Christian and Muslim leaders united against illegal drugs Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Religious Christians and Muslims together to raise awareness in Senegal on the risks of counterfeit drugs for sale on the streets of the Country. The interfaith initiative is part of the national ...
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  3 August 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christians threatened in Jolo: it is urgent to start from "mercy" Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - One Christian was killed and others are threatened by radical Islamic groups in Jolo, a small island in the southern Philippines. This is what the missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Fo ...
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  3 August 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Political tension worsens - the main opposition leader: "within three months Kabila out of the Palace" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in the Democratic Republic of Congo worsens after a supporter of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) was killed by a military last night, August 2, in Kinshasa, t ...
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  2 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New cases of "blasphemy" against Christians and Hindus Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - New cases of "blasphemy" against religious minorities in Pakistan: as Agenzia Fides learns, at least four Christians were charged for alleged blasphemy against Islam in Punjab province last month ...