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  9 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Scientific report: it was not the Syrian army to use chemical weapons in ghouta Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - An official report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW has confirmed that traces of sarin gas used in the Syrian conflict, and that caused the so-called massacre i ...
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  9 January 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christian cemetery in Beit Gemal desecrated Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The cemetery adjacent to the Salesian monastery in Beit Gemal, in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, was desecrated and the wooden and concrete crosses placed on many tombs w ...
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  9 January 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Black Nazarene, a devotion without borders New York (Agenzia Fides) - The devotion to the Black Nazarene in Manila does not have borders, and so while all roads in Manila lead to the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, many devotees in New York who ca ...
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  9 January 2016
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Meeting of the Bishops to study a communication policy Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - In order to allow the Catholic Church to better coordinate its pastoral work in the media in Burkina Faso, the Episcopal Conference Burkina-Niger organized a workshop to strengthen their cap ...
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  8 January 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Opening of the Assembly of Bishops, Mgr. Padrón Sánchez: national reconciliation and amnesty for political prisoners Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez, Archbishop of Cumaná (Venezuela) and President of the Venezuelan Episcopate opened yesterday (7 January) the Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Confe ...
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  8 January 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - 14 soldiers arrested due to 558 forced disappearances that occurred in Guatemala Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday, January 6 arrested fourteen retired military linked to the forced disappearances of at least 558 people that took place in Guatemala between 1981 and ...
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  8 January 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Street children remain an invisible problem Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Every two evenings a team of professionals of the Casa San José go out on the streets of Quillacollo looking for abandoned children. Quillacollo is a municipality of the urban area of the ci ...
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  8 January 2016
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Director of Doctors with Africa Cuamm: The privilege of being with 'minors' Tosamaganga (Agenzia Fides) - "It is possible be nice and cheerful even amid the many forms of poverty", writes Don Dante Carraro, Director of Doctors with Africa Cuamm, who has just come back from Tosamaganga, Tanzania. ...
• 8 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: terrorism does not make any distinction between Christians and Muslims Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Terrorism "does not make any distinction between Christians and Muslims", and even when it is fueled by religious ideology, it indiscriminately affects all believers in God, fomenting sectarian st ...
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  8 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr: return the homes illegally stolen from Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Christian politician Pascale Warda, former immigration minister in the first government of transition following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, has publicly expressed her satis ...
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  7 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Teachers in the Nineveh province rebel against school programs imposed by jihadists Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - More than thirty teachers working in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, currently under the control of the jihadist Islamic State (Daesh), were stopped and arrested in the last hours for refu ...
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  7 January 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Country ignores the disabled in the fight against HIV, the blind and the deaf the hardest hit Chachacha (Agenzia Fides) - In Zimbabwe, home to 14 million people and, according to the National Association of Societies of Assistance to the Disabled, all over the country there are 1 billion 800 million disabled, dea ...
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  7 January 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Insufficient funds and closure of schools: 18,000 students without education El Fasher (Agenzia Fides) - In Zamzam refugee camp, near the town of El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, the schooling of about 18,000 students is at risk. According to local sources, the lack of funding has forced the c ...
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  7 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President al-Sisi attends Christmas Eve in the Coptic Cathedral Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took attended the Coptic Christmas Eve mass celebrated by the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II at the St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral on Wednesd ...
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  7 January 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - USA Bishops support Obama's line on measures to limit the spread of weapons Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank God there is someone who finally has the courage to fill the gaps in our shameful laws on gun control in order to reduce the number of massacres, murders and suicides that have become ...