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  27 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lawyers threatened: they defend a Christian accused of blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two lawyers who offer their professional services at the NGO Pakistani "Lead" (Legal Evangelical Association and Development) were stopped in the street and threatened by unknown people on their ...
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  27 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The alarm of Archbishop Hindo: Deir el Zor is starving Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - In neighborhoods and suburbs of the Syrian city of Deir al Zor, under siege by the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh), at least 120 thousand Syrian civilians are starving. The alarm was lau ...
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  27 January 2016
  AFRICA / SUDAN - Five thousand newly displaced in the capital of West Darfur El Geneina (Agenzia Fides) - The Government Commission for Humanitarian Aid (HAC) and the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) have estimated that, since January 10, 5000 people displaced from Mouli and surrounding villa ...
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  27 January 2016
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Cameroonian military claim successes against Boko Haram but are accused of massacres against civilians in Nigeria Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - The Cameroonian authorities announced they had inflicted "heavy losses" on Nigerian Boko Haram extremists who perpetrated a fourfold suicide bombing on January 25 in the town of Bodo, in the far ...
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  26 January 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Inequality, discrimination and poverty for indigenous peoples Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Indigenous peoples "need justice and recognition", stresses the editorial of the magazine of the Archdiocese of Mexico City. "They are often blocked by incomprehension and populism; they are ...
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  26 January 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Ecumenical prayer during the Week for Christian Unity Semerang (Agenzia Fides) - In the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the Archdiocese of Semarang (Central Java) invited the Pastors of different Protestant churches to an ecumenical celebration that brought together Cat ...
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  26 January 2016
  AMERICA/CANADA - A local church ready and mature for new forms of evangelization and cooperation Hamilton (Agenzia Fides) - Six Ecclesiastical Districts in northern Canada, so far dependent on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, have passed to "common law": we are talking about the Archdiocese of Kee ...
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  26 January 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "The perpetrators have to be punished with justice, no to innocent victims" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Need to punish the real culprits of terrorism and corruption, avoiding innocent victims". This is what the Nigerian Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ibadan say in a statement sent to Age ...
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  26 January 2016
  ASIA/KUWAIT - MPs reject building new churches Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - The Municipality has initially approved requests to build new churches in Kuwait, but faces opposition from lawmakers and councilors. Islamist lawmaker Ahmad Al-Azemi said he and other MPs ...
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  26 January 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Dialogue between the Church and Hindu fanatics? New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The news relaunched by some newspapers that the Hindu nationalist group "Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh" (RSS, "National Volunteer Corps") intends to initiate dialogue with the Catholic Church and ...
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  26 January 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes urges to fill the vacancies at the CSE: "It is time to propose the candidates" Masaya (Agenzia Fides) - The parliament of Nicaragua opened the debate to choose a judge for the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), replacing Judge José Luis Villavicencio, belonging to the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion ...
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  26 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: the "evil hand" of "external players" has brought chaos in the Middle East Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "It seems that the evil hand has put in place all that was planned to change the situation", causing untold suffering to the peoples of the Middle East. And "it is no secret" that "the interven ...
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  26 January 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - Illegal fishing and slavery: a serious phenomenon which penalizes the Country Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - From informed sources we learn that: "in Thailand there are increasingly numerous testimonies of extreme slavery carried out on illegal fishing vessels that have not docked at a port for year ...
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  26 January 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishops of Sudan and South Sudan: "more efforts are needed for peace in our Countries" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The international community have to develop alternative plans if peace agreements reached between the Government of South Sudan and the armed opposition should fail. This is what the Bishops of Sou ...
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  25 January 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Armendáriz Jiménez on the funding to political parties: "We cannot speak of many millions when our people are poor" Querétaro (Agenzia Fides) - "It is worth making a list of what you can do with all this money ... Given the abundance of money, I believe we must demand services where there are not any, we must require health centers w ...