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  3 March 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish-American Day: 970 Spanish fidei donum priests on mission in Latin America. Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – Next Sunday, 6 March, "Latin-American Day" with this year’s theme "Prophets of Marcy", is promoted by the Missions Commission of the Spanish Catholic Bishops’ Conference and OCSHA (Organis ...
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  3 March 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - Zika virus continues to spread, 30 countries in Latin America already affected Havana (Agenzia Fides) –Hygiene and Epidemiology Department officials, who asked not to be named, confirmed that on February 28 Cuban health authorities spoke of 21 cases of Zika virus on the island of Cuba. The gover ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A Centre for suppying information on the situation of human rights in N. Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) –While the United Nations Security Council has unanimously established harsh sanctions on North Korea following Pyongyang's recent nuclear experiment – compulsory inspections, ban on arms sale, ...
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  3 March 2016
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Number of girls in the world without schooling is double the number of boys Paris (Agenzia Fides) - Almost 16 million girls in the whole world aged between 6 and 11 will never go to school, twice the number of boys in this situation, if present trends continue. The alarm comes from UNESCO, Uni ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bethlehem calling Lourdes: partnership between towns supports Palestinian Christians Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) – Lourdes and Bethlehem share a “common destiny”, because "without pilgrimages, Bethlehem, like Lourdes, would be a small forgotten village”. With these words charged with realism the m ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops call embrace between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill “an ecumenical and prophetic step” Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) – The recent embrace on 12 February in Cuba between Pope Francis and the Orthodox Patriarch Moscow Kirill, and their Joint Declaration represent “an ecumenical and prophetic step” taken by t ...
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  3 March 2016
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Catholic Bishops' Conference of Angola, Sao Tomé and Principe opens Plenary Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – On-going formation and the extension of Radio Ecclesia network to cover the whole of Angola were among the issues being discussed by the Plenary Assembly of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of A ...
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  3 March 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishop of Malolos says steelworks project must be stopped Malolos City (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop José F. Oliveros of the diocese of Malolos calls for the immediate cancellation of a steelworks project which would irreversibly ruin the life of the local people and the natural e ...
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  3 March 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - After 30 years former army members found guilty of crimes against indigenous women Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – At last they have been convicted of crimes against humanity including sexual and domestic violence, sexual slavery , involving women of the village of Maya Q'eqchi', the murder Doming ...
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  3 March 2016
  AFRICA/SUD SUDAN - UN urges: “be quick to form a national unity government ”, violence is spreading JJuba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudan leaders must be quick to implement the peace agreement signed in August 2015. This was said by secretary general of the United Nations Organisation Mr Ban Ki-moon, during a brief visi ...
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  2 March 2016
  EUROPE/CROATIA - Missionary Childhood in European countries reflects on the situation of children and families Zadar (Agenzia Fides) – The European Meeting of the Pontifical Missionary Society of Holy Childhood scheduled for 6 -9 March at Zadar, in Croatia, will bring together Holy Childhood National coordinators, National D ...
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  2 March 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Politics as a service”: a testimony by the spiritual father of Shahbaz Bhatti ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Politics as a service”: a testimony by the spiritual father of Shahbaz Bhatti Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – “Recognising his gifs of leadership and concern for the good of the Catholic Church in ...
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  2 March 2016
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops denounce: violence on children has doubled San José (Agenzia Fides) – "Mercy or Violence?" is the title of a message issued by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Costa Rica, at the end of a recent assembly: "With deep sorrow we present information supplied ...
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  2 March 2016
  OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - Columban missionaries care for children after schools collapsed in cyclone Suva (Agenzia Fides) – In the Fiji islands some 40 per cent of the population was affected by tropical cyclone Winston, which struck the archipelago on 20 February. Presently about 62,000 people are living in emergenc ...
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  2 March 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Still no date for Presidential elections: will this mean a presidential vacancy? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There may soon be a presidential vacancy in the Democratic Republic of Congo unless elections are held before the end of November. This is the scenario after Corneille Nangaa chairman of the ...