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  5 March 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "We must learn to build not to destroy!” says Bishop Galván Galindo against “narcocorridos” music Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) – " We must learn to build not destroy! Today’s type of music influences the state of mind of many adolescents. If they listen to "Narco Corridos" music they want to emulate these people and ...
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  5 March 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Controversy regarding the “national” prayer called by the government; the local Catholic Church will not take part Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- After asking the Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo to cancel the demonstration planned for 16 February (see Fides 16/2/2016), the majority which supports President Joseph Kab ...
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  5 March 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Massacre of Sisters, Bishop Ballin: the closer the Church is to Jesus the closer she shares in his passion Aden (Agenzia Fides) – “The closer the Church is to Jesus the more closelyshe shares in his passion”. The massacre by a group of armed men committed inside a Home for elderly and disabled persons entrusted to the c ...
• 4 March 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Fr. Gianluca Roso Pontifical Mission Societies National Director confirmed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, confirmed on 8 January 2016 for a five year term the present National Director of the Pontifical ...
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  4 March 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Terrorist attack kills 4 Mother Teresa Sisters, together with helpers and elderly patients in care Aden (Agenzia Fides) Four Missionary Sisters of Charity, the community founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, were shot dead by gunmen early this morning in an attack on the structure in the Yemenite city of Aden where ...
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  4 March 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Five new Korean missionaries “ad gentes” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Five new Korean missionaries are charged to carry the good news of the Gospel to distant lands: with a special Mass celebrated in Seoul Cathedral on 3 March, Cardinal Yeom Soo-jung, Catholic ...
• 4 March 2016
  AMERICA/CANADA - Appoinment of new PMS National Director Fr. Yoland Oullet Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 8 January 2016 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in French sp ...
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  4 March 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - International Seminar : how Christians and other non-Muslim social groups are portrayed in official school programmes in Arab countries Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – A two day international seminar opened today in Beirut to discuss how Christians and other non-Muslim social groups are portrayed in official school programmes in Arab countries. The initiati ...
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  4 March 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “showing mercy is not weakness ”: says Bishop Aguilar Martínez after recent acts of violence Tehuacan (Agenzia Fides) – "The world today does not encouge us to have mercy on the contrary, it encourages us to be forceful judges and executants so that violence is punished with more violence and this is arroganc ...
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  4 March 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Let us fight corruption as Pope Francis asked us to do” says Archbishop Kairo Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- A Kenyan archbishop has reminded President Uhuru Kenyatta of what Pope Francis said during his visit to the African country about fighting corruption. “During the meeting with young people at K ...
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  4 March 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Flour is scarce , long lines to buy bread Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The people of Khartoum have to wait in long lines to buy a little bread from the bakeries which often have to close because of the scarcity of flour. A woman in the state of Khartoum told th ...
• 4 March 2016
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Tunisia concerned about possible military intervention in Libya Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - “Tunisia is deeply concerned about possible intervention on the part of western powers in Libya” F r. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Tunisia, said in a ...
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  4 March 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Leading environmentalist Berta Cacere assassinated after ten years of threats La Esperanza (Agenzia Fides) – Leading environmentalist Berta Caceres, well known in Honduras, was murdered at dawn yesterday, Thursday 3 March, at La Esperanza, about 200 kilometers from Tegucigalpa, in the west of t ...
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  4 March 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New La Casa de los Niños Play Therapy Centre for street children Cuautla (Agenzia Fides) – About 150 children who have no school to go to and are forced to spend their days on the streets, have been accepted at the new La Casa de los Niños Play Therapy Centre, organized by Santiago ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The Word of God and Mercy accompany Chinese Catholics along the path of Lent ASIA/CHINA – The Word of God and Mercy accompany Chinese Catholics along the path of Lent Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Misericordiae Vultus, the Bull of Indiction for this extraordinary Holy Year, the word of God a ...