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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 ...
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  8 October 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - "It is time for Catholics and Anglicans to join hands to fight the social ills of Ghana" says Anglican Primate of the Province of West Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time for the Anglican Church of Ghana and the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference to join hands to fight poverty, child trafficking, climate change and other social ills eating into the fab ...
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  8 October 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Massacre of Mandera: the police claim to have "vital clues" on the reason and the perpetrators Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are following crucial leads that would unearth those behind the attack", said Mandera County Commissioner Fredrick Shisia, in northeast Kenya, where on 6 October six people were killed, thr ...
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  8 October 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats to a Christian NGO that defends cases of "digital blasphemy" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) The Pakistani NGO Christian-inspired "The Voice", led by lawyer Christian Aneeqa Maria Anthony has received threats in the course of legal proceedings related to a case of blasphemy. This is the ca ...
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  7 October 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Hurricane Matthew: 300 deaths in Haiti alone, the testimony of a missionary Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Haiti worsens after Hurricane Matthew in the Caribbean has killed 283 people so far, according to the Haitian Ministry of Interior, but the figure is provisional and defi ...
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  7 October 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The children of Aleppo call for peace. The Chaldean Bishop: Western information manipulated Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - There were several hundred children of Aleppo, Christians and Muslims, who yesterday, Thursday, October 6, gathered to pray and sing for peace to return in Syria. The gathering was held in the l ...