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  27 September 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Nine out of ten children in the Amazon do not complete their studies Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Nine out of ten children in the Amazon do not complete their studies. Poverty and lack of education are causing serious problems to the development of thousands of young people in the most precario ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraq's parliament: no to changes in the status of Nineveh Province to reserve "protected areas" to religious minorities Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi Parliament voted yesterday, Monday, September 26, a motion to close the door to any possibility of changing the legal status of the northern province of Nineveh. The motion, presented ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - With the nightmare of the "Buddhist blasphemy", the Church prepares missionary October Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "In this phase, under military power, society and especially young people complain about the lack of freedom and pluralism: one cannot criticize the government. But our pastoral activities are n ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Former street child opens a "coffee-library" for homeless minors Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - A coffee-library for poor street children was recently opened in India's financial capital called Bombay to Barcelona - and was born from the dream of a former street child, now an adult, who wit ...
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  27 September 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Chilean Religious in defense of the Carmelite nuns who see their cloistered life threatened Maipo (Agenzia Fides) - Since 2012, there has been a legal battle in Chile between the hydroelectric company, Coyanco, and the Carmelite cloistered nuns of Cajon del Maipo. Coyanco is trying to steal part of the monaster ...
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  27 September 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Risk of an imminent crisis" warns the UN Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Democratic Republic of Congo, whose President Joseph Kabila, yesterday September 26, was received in audience by Pope Francis, remains on the brink of the precipice, after the incident betw ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/LAOS - Three new priests ordained: a historic step for the Church Luang Prabang (Agenzia Fides) - "First of all let us thank the Lord for his great gift: we are very happy for the three new priests who will work full time in the small Catholic Church in Laos. All three will dedicate th ...
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  27 September 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Among Lebanese young people under 25, only 25% are Christians Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Christians account for 34% of the Lebanese population registered in the civil Status register. But if the focus is placed on the Lebanese population up to 25 years of age, the percentage o ...
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  27 September 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "No to the creation of the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs" say Catholics and Protestants Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholics and Protestants in Zambia have opposed the establishment of a new government Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs. "In view of the various financial and economic chal ...
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  24 September 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In the Year of Education, schools at the center of the diocesan pastoral of Faisalabad Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - In the Pakistani diocese of Faisalabad, in Punjab province, the Year of mercy coincides with a special "Year of Education", proclaimed by Bishop Joseph Arshad. "We urgently need to grow in th ...
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  24 September 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Archbishop Castro: "For Colombia a date with history" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – Heads of State and high political authorities from world countries will be gathering in Cartagena on September 26 to attend the solemn signing of the peace agreement between the Colombian gove ...
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  24 September 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Elections, Archbishop Lahham: all Christian candidates in Islamist lists rejected Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Among the 130 members of the new Jordanian Parliament in the political elections held on September 20, only 9 are of Christian faith, equal to the minimum "guaranteed" to the Christian minority fr ...
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  24 September 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Children will pray to implore the end of massacres of children Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of boys and girls in Aleppo, Christians and Muslims, will meet on October 6, to pray so that the spiral of death unleashed in recent days especially on their defenceless children stops i ...
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  23 September 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another priest kidnapped in Michoacan Michoacan (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Morelia, Card. Alberto Suárez Inda, denounced the kidnapping of a priest from Janamuato community, in the municipality of Puruándiro, in the Mexican state of Michoacan. Thr ...
• 23 September 2016
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - National Director of the PMS, Fr. Karl Wallner Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 5, 2016, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Karl Wallner, of the Cistercian Order as National Director ...