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  27 January 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Twenty new priests and thirty deacons will be ordained in Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Korea, which thrives in vocations to priesthood, will be enriched with 20 new priests: Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul, will ordain 20 priests on February 5. Given ...
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  27 January 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Country is at risk of a humanitarian health crisis Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The shortage of medicines and equipment in medical institutions in the Country and the deterioration of public hospitals continues to endanger the health and lives of Venezuelans. The National A ...
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  27 January 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - President Macri meets the local Church:"Cura Brochero is an example of Argentina we want" Villa Brochero (Agenzia Fides) - The closing Mass of the annual "Brocheriana Week", celebrated yesterday, Tuesday, 26 January, was an opportunity to meet newly-elected President Mauricio Macri with the main representativ ...
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  27 January 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishop of Garissa: "We offer education to Christians and Muslims to overcome divisions" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Education is an essential tool to overcome religious, tribal and political barriers, as well as being an essential element for human development. This is what His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Alexander says ...
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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 ...