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  13 September 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - A religious network has been launched to promote peace in Africa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A religious network to promote peace in Africa through dialogue has been launched. This is what was announced in Nairobi, Kenya, at the end of a three-day conference organized by Missio-Aachen a ...
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  13 September 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Even the Chaldean Bishops in Georgia to welcome Pope Francis Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - "We will also go to Tbilisi to receive the Pope. After celebrating our Synod, at least 13 Chaldean Bishops will be present at the meeting that the Bishop of Rome will have in Georgia with the Assy ...
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  12 September 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - First parish in China dedicated to "Saint Teresa of Calcutta", to follow her footsteps in charity Cang Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, September 4 the first parish dedicated to "Saint" Teresa of Calcutta was consecrated in China on the same day of her canonization, at the Vatican. In fact, several other parishes in ...
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  12 September 2016
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Earthquake in the north-west: "The rescue operations started immediately" says the Bishop of Rulenge-Ngara Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "The earthquake was not very strong in my diocese, but some areas have been damaged. Even some church structures have been damaged, such as the minor seminary and a parish", says to Agenzi ...
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  12 September 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - More than one million people take to the streets in 125 cities for the march for the family Zacatecas (Agenzia Fides) - After the demonstrations in favor of the family, a national awakening is taking place and it is clear that the Church supports it, noted His Exc. Mgr. Sigifredo Noriega Barceló, Bishop of Zac ...
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  12 September 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Mgr. Gomez on immigration: Recover "forgotten history" Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday, September 11, many places of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles talked about the issue of immigration in the United States. According to a note sent to Fides, many lay groups, ...
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  12 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Lepers and refugees at the celebration of Mother Teresa in Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Lepers, refugees, the poor, children who are taken care by the Missionaries of Charity Sisters and Brothers run by the Sisters of Mother Teresa in Orissa (eastern state of India) were presen ...
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  12 September 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslims pay homage to Our Lady of Mariamabad Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "A large presence of Muslim faithful leaders and believers, are paying visit today, the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mariamabad, in the diocese of Lahore. ...
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  12 September 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Initial reactions to the initiatives made in the USA for the creation of a "protected" area for religious minorities in the Nineveh Plain Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The intention to submit to the US Congress a resolution sponsored by both Republican and Democrat politicians to demand the establishment of an autonomous province in the Nineveh Plain "under th ...
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  12 September 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Church mobilizes for President al Sisi’s visit to the US New York (Agenzia Fides) - Priests and Coptic Orthodox faithful living in the US have been called by the Archdiocese of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in North America to take part in the event convened on 20 September ...
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  10 September 2016
  VATICAN - The Pope to the Bishops of the CEP Seminar: "Care for the people God has entrusted to you, care for priests, care for seminarians. This is your task" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Your places of origin are diverse and far from each other, and belong to the great constellation of so-called 'mission territories'. Therefore each of you have the great privilege and resp ...
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  10 September 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - An initiative made in the USA for the creation of a protected area reserved for religious minorities in the Nineveh Plain Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The political and administrative future of Mosul and the north-Iraqi province of Nineveh continues to be the center of operations, initiatives and projects of different origins, often divergent or ...
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  10 September 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - There is no food or medicine, people are starving and tension increases in the country Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, said that Venezuelan people should resolve conflicts peacefully. "There is no food, and there are no medicines, this has become a serious ...
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  10 September 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Archbishop Castro: "We must participate in the referendum in a responsible manner and with a conscious vote" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - Following the signing of the agreements reached between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas in Havana, the President of the Colombian Bishops Luis Augusto Castro, Archbishop of Tun ...
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  10 September 2016
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Patriarch Emeritus Sabbah denounces the resurgence of "sectarianism" in Palestinian society Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - Latin Patriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah, known by everyone for his closeness to the national Palestinian cause, strongly denounced the "serious deterioration" he perceives in Palest ...