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  10 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - In the Holy Year two new priests in Orissa, theater of anti-Christian violence Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - "A gift and a blessing, in the Year of Mercy": is how the Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, in Orissa, His Exc. Mgr. John Barwa described the two new priests ordained in the district of Kan ...
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  9 February 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Awaiting the arrival of the African Union delegation, but the population has little hope Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We await the arrival of the African Union delegation (AU) which should meet President Pierre Nkurunziza to try to convince him to accept the peacekeeping mission that the AU intends to send t ...
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  9 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Sharing hope and justice: meeting with the survivors of the anti-Christian massacres in Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 February, the first meeting among the survivors of anti-Christian massacres that occurred in 2008 in Kandhamal district in the Indian state of Orissa will be held. As reported to Fides ...
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  9 February 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - "Adopt a child and act against child poverty" Chota (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of Carnival, the Centre Ideas together with the Fundación Ayuda en Acción have launched a Carnival Campaign of Solidarity "Adopt a child and act against child poverty". The objec ...
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  9 February 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Hrant Dink Foundation makes an inventory of the buildings built by religious minorities Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Hrant Dink Foundation - founded to cherish the memory and ideals of the Turkish journalist and writer of Armenian origin who was assassinated in January 2007 - has compiled an inventory of th ...
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  9 February 2016
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Poverty and neglect among the leading causes of school drop out San José (Agenzia Fides) - According to an annual assessment of the Encuesta Nacional de Hogares (Enaho) 2015, carried out every year by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC), of the 584,645 children, b ...
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  9 February 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Religious leaders have organized moments of prayer for the elections of 18 February Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Uganda's main religious faiths join in praying for the successful holding of the general elections on 18 February. This was decided by the Council of Presidents of Inter-Religious Council of Uga ...
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  9 February 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Zika virus: Cardinal Cipriani compares man to a modern Herod Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Peruvian Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima, believes that the UN acts as a modern Herod, encouraging governments of countries affected by Zika virus to permit abortion, as this may ma ...
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  9 February 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians boycot the "conference on peaceful coexistence"; Chaldean Patriarch: we are tired of useless words Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Christian representatives invited to participate in the "Conference on the protection of peaceful coexistence", held on Sunday, February 7 at the Iraqi Parliament, decided to boycott the event, ...
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  9 February 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Cuernavaca in solidarity with the university protest Morelos (Agenzia Fides) - On February 7, the Bishop of the Diocese of Cuernavaca, His Exc. Mgr. Ramon Castro Castro, visited the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM), in the central square of the state ca ...
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  9 February 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Fifty years of compassion Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Australia, will launch its annual Lenten campaign, "Project Compassion", Australia's largest humanitarian fundraising and awareness-raising campaigns, and will also celebrate its 50 years ...
• 9 February 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Dhaka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 8, 2016, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Shorot Francis Gomes, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Dhaka, Bangladesh,. He was assigned the Titular See of Forma Rev. Shorot ...
• 8 February 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The presidential run-off and the first round of legislative elections to be held on 14 February Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The second round of the Central African presidential elections will be held on Sunday, February 14. The two candidates are Anicet-Georges Dologuélé and Faustin-Archange Touadéra. They both hel ...
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  8 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 18-year-old Coptic girl missing; demonstrations against the scourge of "targeted" kidnappings against Christians Minya (Agenzia Fides) - More than 150 Coptic Christians took part in a sit-in convened last night, Sunday, February 7, in front of the provincial administration office in Minya, to sensitize the authorities and police fo ...
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  8 February 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New inter-community violence in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Clashes continue between the Hutu and Nande communities in the territory of Lubero, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, on Febru ...