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  15 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Jihadists release other 16 Christian hostages of Khabur (including 8 children) Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - The jihadists affiliated to the self-styled Islamic State (Daesh) released yesterday, 14 January, 16 other Assyrian Christians who were part of the large group of hostages that they captured an ...
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  15 January 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - After the massacres, Christians and Muslims together in the street against terrorism Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We express deep condolences to the victims and condemn all forms of violence and terrorism. We pray and we work for the unity of Indonesia": says to Fides Fr. Alexius Andang Binawan, SJ, Vicar ...
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  15 January 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Baez denounces the lack of clarity in the management of the workers' money Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Managua, His Exc. Mgr. Silvio Baez, asked yesterday, 14 January, the Attorney General's Office, to investigate the case of the loan of $ 1.2 million approv ...
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  15 January 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 88-year-old Mgr. Casaldáliga: "I will not go back to Europe, I will stay in the Third World" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Managua, His Exc. Mgr. Silvio Baez, asked yesterday, 14 January, the Attorney General's Office, to investigate the case of the loan of $ 1.2 million approv ...
• 15 January 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President Buhari: "I want to get to the bottom of the causes of the kidnapping of the Chibok girls" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered another investigation into the abduction of 219 girls and in particular intends to clarify the responsibility of the security forces in their failure to rele ...
• 15 January 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Agreement between the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) - Commission for Education and Religious Education and the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) signed a memorandum of understanding in a ...
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  14 January 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Religious minorities: salaries for the clergy are to be paid directly by the State Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - A request to pay salaries to religious minority communities directly by the State was made to Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu. This was reported by Agos magazine, the bilingual newspaper ...
• 14 January 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Resignation of the Bishop of Mannar and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 14 January 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Mannar (Sri Lanka), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Rayappu, in accordance with can. 4 ...
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  14 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic Paul Bhatti hopes for the revocation of the blasphemy law Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign for the abolition of the blasphemy law in Pakistan sees Catholic Paul Bhatti in the forefront, brother of Shahbaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities killed on March 2, 2011, and form ...
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  14 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Youhanna X: Orthodox Churches must safeguard unity, avoiding divisions Balamand (Agenzia Fides) - Orthodox Churches must safeguard unity, avoiding divisions and rifts. Only in this way the great pan-Orthodox Synod scheduled in 2016 will be a good opportunity to provide a united witness to t ...
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  14 January 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Meeting street children is like meeting Christ Nagpur (Agenzia Fides) - Meeting, visiting, assisting street children means encountering Christ: this is what a group of young Catholics in Nagpur, a city in central India experienced when they went in search of street c ...
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  14 January 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Arizmendi in the face of popular protests: "We cannot be indifferent to the suffering of families" San Cristóbal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas, His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, has agreed to mediate in the conflict in the Mexican town of Altos de Chiapa ...
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  14 January 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Indigenous people, poor people, young people and migrants: "the new faces of the excluded" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Social Pastoral Caritas in Chile, a body of the Episcopal Conference, presented the document "Equity and development in Chile: the new faces of the exc ...
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  13 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Tensions between Kurds and Christians in the province of Hassake Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions between Kurds and Christians increase in the Syrian region of northeastern Jiazira, where we find the cities of Qamishli and Hassaké and where large areas of land are in the hands of ...
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  13 January 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Less trade, more spirituality in the Church Lingayen (Agenzia Fides) - The Church has to deal with spiritual and pastoral matters, and not give the idea of being a commercial enterprise: with this in mind the Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, north of Mani ...