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  4 October 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Hundreds of foreign "slave" fishermen on vessels in Hawaii Honolulu (Agenzia Fides) - A recent survey published by Associated Press found that hundreds of foreigners, undocumented and from Asia and the Pacific, have been confined to vessels for years without basic labor protecti ...
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  4 October 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A Christian politician killed in Tamil Nadu Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - A Pentecostal Christian, engaged in politics, was murdered near a church in the south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu (southern India). As Fides learns, Dhanasekharan was 34 years old and attended a Pe ...
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  4 October 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Franciscans: concrete steps to be taken to designate a "Safe Zone" in Aleppo under the control of UN peacekeepers Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The international Community must take concrete steps "to designate Aleppo a Safe Zone", to be placed under the direct control "of UN Peacekeeping", using lessons and solutions acquired in previou ...
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  4 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Congolese crisis threatens to set fire to the whole area of the Great Lakes Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Besides the political instability experienced in the Democratic Republic of Congo there is also instability in peripheral areas, such as in Central Kasai (see Fides 26/09/2016) and especially ...
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  4 October 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Kurdish Peshmerga bombard the jihadist militias that occupy a Christian town in the Nineveh Plain Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, October 3, the Kurdish Peshmerga army attacked positions of the Islamic State (Daesh) in the city of Bartala, also known as Bartella, located 20 kilometers east of Mosul, in the Ninev ...
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  4 October 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - More than two thousand young witnesses of the "joy of the gospel in a plural society" Manado (Agenzia Fides) - The second Indonesian Youth Day, a national event organized by the Episcopal Conference, on the model of World Youth Day, began today October 4, in the diocese of Manado, eastern Indonesia (North ...
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  4 October 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Social peace and the security of many people are being put at risk" denounces Msg. Arizmendi San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - Last week, the Electoral Court of the State of Chiapas decreed the legitimacy of the role regarding two women elected mayors of Chenalhó and Oxchuc. Since the elections a yea ...
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  4 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Auxiliary Bishop of Juba: "There is no need to tell lies: people suffer. There is no peace without justice" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no need to tell lies. They do not help us. This country is sinking. We need to get up and stand strong and say God help us to carve a new way, rather than denying the suffering of the peo ...
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  3 October 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Moronta concerned about the situation of prisons and the conflict in Tachira Tachira (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal, His Exc. Mgr. Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez, is concerned about the tension that has been going on for more than 20 days following the events tha ...
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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - Zika, first babies born with microcephaly in Southeast Asiatnenen ste meme stnene sjne e Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - After the cases of zika in Brazil (that had denounced a tragic surge of malformations in fetuses) and in Africa, America and Europe, the alarm also grows in Southeast Asia. In particular in Thai ...
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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Balaknama: street children publish a newspaper Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Sexual abuse, child labor, street violence sums up life of street children in India. Delhi’s Balaknama newspaper - the "Voice of Children", which is run by the street children has been working ...
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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop Travas: "Communion and dialogue in South Punjab, infested by Islamic militants" Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "The small Catholic community in the south of Punjab province lives communion and promotes dialogue in a society where the influence of Islamic militants and violent groups is felt": says Bishop ...
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  3 October 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar will organize an international conference on peace with the participation of Eastern Churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamic University of Al Azhar will organize in early 2017, in cooperation with the Muslim Council of Elders, an international Conference on peace, coexistence and interreligious dialogue, whi ...
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  3 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Electoral Commission announces the postponement of the presidential and legislative elections to 2018 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Presidential and legislative elections in November 2018. This is what was announced by the President of the Independent Electoral Commission (CENI), Corneille Naanga, to the participants in the ...
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  3 October 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "No" wins in the referendum on peace agreements Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Colombians have rejected the peace agreement between the Colombian government and FARC in a historic referendum that sought to put an end to 52 years of armed conflict. According to information ...