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  21 January 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Vicaría de la Solidaridad": for 40 years has been defending human rights by repression and violence Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In Chile, 40 years ago, the Vicariate of Solidarity ("Vicaría de la Solidaridad") was created, and its first executive Secretary, lawyer Javier Luis Egaña, remembers the difficult job of huma ...
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  21 January 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Two suspects for acts of sectarian vandalism against the Dormition church have been arrested Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Two days after the discovery of anti-Christian writtings on the walls of the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion (see Fides 18/01/2016), the Israeli police have announced that it has stopped two sus ...
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  21 January 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Minors exploited for the extraction of cobalt Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of children who live in extreme poverty continue to be abused and exploited in exchange for a paltry remuneration. We are talking about children who are employed in the mines in the D ...
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  21 January 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Violence against the indigenous: a boy killed, the Bishops call for "a serious investigation" Davao (Agenzia Fides) - Pain and closeness to the family; a serious investigation to establish the facts; the end of abuses on indigenous peoples: it what the "Commission for Indigenous Peoples" of the Episcopal Conferen ...
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  21 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - The President of Caritas Lebanon: the Maronite Church supports any serious attempt to get out of the institutional crisis Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Maronite Church "does not support a presidential candidate over another, but is in favor of any serious solution to enable the Country to emerge from the institutional paralysis and finally e ...
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  21 January 2016
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Importance to achieve the second reason of the 2011 revolution: economic development" Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "We have the impression that protests are beginning again due to the second reason of the 2011 revolution: the economic one", says Fr. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Soc ...
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  20 January 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Launch of the new three-year campaign against hunger Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – The NGO of the Spanish Catholic Church “Manos Unidas”, which deals with development, is launching a new annual campaign against hunger: “Plántale cara al hambre: siembra". In addition, o ...
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  20 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syrian Orthodox Patriarch organizes a meeting with diplomats in Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – His Beatitude Mar Ignatius Aphrem II, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, organized a reception to mark the start of the new year where all the diplomats accredited to the Arab Republic of ...
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  20 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Assault on a university: churches and civil society against terrorism Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) – A group of Islamist Taliban militants stormed a university in northwestern Pakistan this morning, killing indiscriminately students and professors, in classrooms and hostels. After the interv ...
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  20 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The coalition raid on Mosul devastates a church Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - On the night between Monday 18 and Tuesday, January 19, the air strikes carried out by the international coalition of Mosul - conquered in June 2014 by jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) - hit ...
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  20 January 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The "Soup kitchens of Charity" at the service of thousands of poor people in Xian Xi An (Agenzia Fides) - "They have brought warmth to the homeless" was the headline on the front page of the Chinese Business View (500,000 copies daily and 17 million visitors for the internet edition) of the Chinese pr ...
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  20 January 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “Two Nations, one Faith”: El Paso and Ciudad Juarez united for the Pope's visit El Paso (Agenzia Fides) – The US Diocese of El Paso is inviting the faithful at the Sun Bowl Stadium, of the University of Texas in El Paso (UTEP), on February 17, to participate in the live broadcast of Pope Francis' ...
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  20 January 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Even a Tzotzil priest will concelebrate with the Pope during his visit in Mexico Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) – Even a priest of ethnic Tzotzil will concelebrate the Mass that will be presided by the Holy Father on February 15 in Altos de Chiapas, during his pastoral visit to Mexico. Tzotzil is a langua ...
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  20 January 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Mgr. Peña Rodríguez: "Corruption creates scandalous injustice and social inequality" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Dominican Episcopal Conference (CED), His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez, yesterday presented the pastoral Letter on the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady ...
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  20 January 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Onaiyekan: "For 20 years we have been witnessing the growth of religious fanaticism that fuels violence" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The religiously motivated violence in Nigeria comes from afar, said Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, in his speech at the Faculty of Law, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State. ...