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  11 October 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Newly-elected Cardinal Porrai Cardozo: "It is not a personal award, but a recognition of our Church and Venezuelan society" Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Mérida, His Exc. Mgr. Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, is one of the 17 new cardinals appointed by Pope Francis on 9 October. "Union Radio" has sent Fides a first comment of M ...
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  11 October 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Christian Parties demand a new electoral law Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - In the continuing institutional impasse that characterizes the Lebanese political scene, recent hypotheses to overcome the paralysis and revitalize Parliament by resorting to a "law of necessity" ...
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  11 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - About 700 deaths in 120 attacks in two years in the Territory of Beni Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - About 700 civilians have been killed in 120 massacres since October 2014 in the Territory of Beni, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, says Human Rights Watch report. The human ...
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  10 October 2016
  VATICAN - Among the new Cardinals, 6 are Archbishops in mission territories Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the Angelus yesterday, Sunday, October 9, the Holy Father Francis announced the creation of 13 new Cardinals. A Consistory will be held on the 19 of November. They also include an Archbi ...
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  10 October 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Treatment and prevention of malaria: commitment of Catholic structures on the island of Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Indonesia is one of the countries with the highest percentage of cases of malaria. In 2015, the 'ratio' of the disease was 5 per thousand. This means that 5 people out of a thousand were positi ...
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  10 October 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Tijuana opens parishes to Haitian migrants Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - "I am talking to priests, so that in the shortest possible time, some parishes can be equipped as places to welcome Haitians, and must in fact welcome them in worthy places" said the Archbishop ...
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  10 October 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Hurricane emergency: people with disabilities are the most vulnerable Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Humanitarian emergency in Haiti, the most serious in the country after the 2010 earthquake. Hurricane Matthew, which on October 4 hit the island with torrential rains and winds, has devas ...
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  10 October 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Eleven Christian TV channels declared "illegal": attack on religious freedom Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A recent order issued by the "Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority", a body of the Pakistani government, declared 11 Christian television channels broadcasting in Pakistan in Urdu illeg ...
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  10 October 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Education, Family and Mercy": Catholic education conference Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The fifth Catholic Education Congress on the theme: "Education, Family and Mercy" concluded in Santiago. An important aspect of this event was the variety of conferences that were held. A confe ...
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  10 October 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Disputes between Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds on the release and the future control of Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The preliminary phases to the military assault for the liberation of Mosul from jihadists of the Islamic State (Desh), sees the increase of political, geopolitical and sectarian disputes about the ...
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  10 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Let us commit ourselves, as Catholics, to fight crime and violence" urges a priest Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The latest crime statistics in South Africa describe a worrying upward trend of violent crimes, and therefore as Catholics we need to translate our commitment into active participation to ...
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  10 October 2016
  AFRICA/MAURITIUS - "My appointment as Cardinal is an encouragement to our Church", said Mgr. Piat Port-Louis (Agenzia Fides) - "My appointment as Cardinal is an encouragement that the Pope gives to our Church of Mauritius in the Year of Mercy: an encouragement to continue to welcome this mercy which makes us feel goo ...
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  8 October 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Church and state together to create "peace zones", free of drugs Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the midst of a campaign that sees organizations of civil society, in the Philippines and abroad, denounce extrajudicial executions carried out by police and paramilitary groups against traffic ...
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  8 October 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Hurricane Matthew: 800 dead but the toll is getting worse by the hour Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "We are still waiting for news of our confreres in Jérémie. Until today (October 7th ed) we have no news. And there is no way to contact or visit them" writes to Fides Fr. Kenol Chery, ...
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  8 October 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Church greets the new Nobel Peace Prize: President Santos Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - After the news of the Nobel Peace Prize 2016 awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro, Archbishop of Tunja and President of the Colombian Epis ...