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  9 February 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Hrant Dink Foundation makes an inventory of the buildings built by religious minorities Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Hrant Dink Foundation - founded to cherish the memory and ideals of the Turkish journalist and writer of Armenian origin who was assassinated in January 2007 - has compiled an inventory of th ...
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  9 February 2016
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Poverty and neglect among the leading causes of school drop out San José (Agenzia Fides) - According to an annual assessment of the Encuesta Nacional de Hogares (Enaho) 2015, carried out every year by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC), of the 584,645 children, b ...
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  9 February 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Religious leaders have organized moments of prayer for the elections of 18 February Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Uganda's main religious faiths join in praying for the successful holding of the general elections on 18 February. This was decided by the Council of Presidents of Inter-Religious Council of Uga ...
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  9 February 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Zika virus: Cardinal Cipriani compares man to a modern Herod Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Peruvian Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima, believes that the UN acts as a modern Herod, encouraging governments of countries affected by Zika virus to permit abortion, as this may ma ...
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  9 February 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians boycot the "conference on peaceful coexistence"; Chaldean Patriarch: we are tired of useless words Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Christian representatives invited to participate in the "Conference on the protection of peaceful coexistence", held on Sunday, February 7 at the Iraqi Parliament, decided to boycott the event, ...
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  9 February 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Cuernavaca in solidarity with the university protest Morelos (Agenzia Fides) - On February 7, the Bishop of the Diocese of Cuernavaca, His Exc. Mgr. Ramon Castro Castro, visited the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM), in the central square of the state ca ...
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  9 February 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Fifty years of compassion Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Australia, will launch its annual Lenten campaign, "Project Compassion", Australia's largest humanitarian fundraising and awareness-raising campaigns, and will also celebrate its 50 years ...
• 9 February 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 8, 2016, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Shorot Francis Gomes, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Dhaka, Bangladesh,. He was assigned the Titular See of Forma Rev. Shorot ...
• 8 February 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The presidential run-off and the first round of legislative elections to be held on 14 February Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The second round of the Central African presidential elections will be held on Sunday, February 14. The two candidates are Anicet-Georges Dologuélé and Faustin-Archange Touadéra. They both hel ...
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  8 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 18-year-old Coptic girl missing; demonstrations against the scourge of "targeted" kidnappings against Christians Minya (Agenzia Fides) - More than 150 Coptic Christians took part in a sit-in convened last night, Sunday, February 7, in front of the provincial administration office in Minya, to sensitize the authorities and police fo ...
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  8 February 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New inter-community violence in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Clashes continue between the Hutu and Nande communities in the territory of Lubero, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, on Febru ...
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  8 February 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Nazareth is preparing to host the World Day of the Sick Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - The town of Nazareth is preparing to host the World Day of the Sick 2016, an event that will be celebrated in the city of Galilee next Thursday, February 11th. It was Pope Francis who indicated ...
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  8 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian Bishops will discuss the anti-Christian massacres and martyrs of Orissa New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) -During their Plenary Assembly, to be held from 2 to 9 March in Bangalore the Indian Bishops will examine and discuss the issue of the persecution of Christians which occurred in Orissa in 2007 ...
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  8 February 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The slow agony of the Wayuu children La Guajira (Agenzia Fides) - The state of abandonment and food insecurity and water supplies for the Wayuu children continues (see Fides 18/12/2015). On December 17th, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR ...
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  8 February 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church is contributing to combatting the Zika virus Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in the Philippines offers its contribution in the effort to combat the spread of the Zika virus in the country, joining the widespread awareness campaign prepared by government authori ...