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• 18 February 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Resignation of the Bishop of Chinhoyi and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 February 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Dieter Bernd Scholz, S.I., in accordance ...
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  17 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Donating blood is an act of mercy Secunderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Donating blood as an act of mercy and compassion, to be rediscovered in the Jubilee Year: with this intention the "Catholic Health Association of India" (CHAI) organizes sessions of "blood ...
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  17 February 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop's warning: "The “drumbeats of war” are becoming louder as the country heads to the general elections" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The inciting comments by politicians is a common phenomenon that occurs before tribal clashes erupt, we must stop that", said His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Korir, Bishop of Eldoret and President of t ...
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  17 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Grand Imam al Tayyeb invited to the Vatican to relaunch dialogue between the University of Al Azhar and the Holy See Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Sheikh Ahmed al Tayyeb, Grand Imam of al-Azhar University, received an invitation to visit the Vatican to officially sanction the resumption of bilateral dialogue between the Holy See and the most ...
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  17 February 2016
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Cardinal Filoni at the conference on the religious aspects of migration in Europe Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - "I think that a knowledge of the history of Christianity in the Middle-East - today Iraq – is not some idle cultural extravaganza, but rather an approach that allows one to understand the rea ...
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  17 February 2016
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Vaccination campaign against yellow fever in the capital Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – Due to a yellow fever epidemic that is spreading in Luanda, the Bishop representative of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the World (Tocoista), urged all Angolan families to adhere to the ...
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  17 February 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "It will take time and a lot of good will to restore peace" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The South Sudanese say that we have reached the end of the line, zero point, but in fact we are less than zero, because what is destroyed is lost", say to Agenzia Fides local sources from Juba, ca ...
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  17 February 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa calls to conversion: "Need to defend the lives of all people and promote common good" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, urged "in the name of God", to "fight for the defense of life of all people, to promote the common good, leaving aside personal interests or i ...
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  17 February 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bolivians to vote for the referendum that amends the duration of the presidential term La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Next Sunday, February 21, Bolivians will vote for the referendum on the reform of Article 168 of the Constitution of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, regarding the Presidential and Vice-Presid ...
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  17 February 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian and Muslim children "ambassadors of peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Children are the hope of society and the first messengers of peace and harmony, starting from families and schools: in this spirit the "Council for Interreligious Dialogue", based in Lahore, form ...
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  16 February 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Church: Justice, the path to reconciliation Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The path of Justice is important to reach authentic reconciliation in Sri Lanka": says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Cyril Gamini Fernando, head of social communications in the Archdiocese of Colombo. " ...
• 16 February 2016
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Benghazi and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 14, 2016, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Benghazi (Libya), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Sylvester Carmel Magro, O.F. ...
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  16 February 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Day of the dead city" to demand respect for the Constitution Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The opposition in the Democratic Republic of Congo has announced today, February 16, a day of protest, in which citizens are called not go to work or to school or to the streets. This is called ...
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  16 February 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Emigrants divided by the border, even for the Pope's Mass El Paso (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, February 15 at about 11 am local time, hundreds of families and residents in the border area between Mexico and the United States gathered on both sides of the border fence Anapra/S ...
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  16 February 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Caritas volunteer killed in Aleppo by a mortar shell Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - His name was Elias Abiad and was only 22 years old. The young volunteer of Caritas Syria was killed on Saturday, February 13th in Aleppo by mortar shells which fell in the area of Sulaymaniyah. T ...