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  30 November 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal of jurists to repeal the blasphemy law Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - In Pakistan it is necessary to repeal the blasphemy law: this is what the "International Commission of Jurists" an organization consisting of more than 60 eminent jurists from around the world, w ...
• 30 November 2015
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Waiting for yesterday’s election results Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Burkina Faso is waiting for the results of the first round of presidential and legislative elections which took place yesterday, 29 November. The elections are the first since the former Pre ...
• 30 November 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Bishop of Bangassou:"Pope Francis managed to leave all Central Africans with a smile" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Seeing the Pope's smile at the time of his departure for Rome filled us with joy", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Muños, Bishop of Bangassou commenting on the Holy Fathe ...
• 30 November 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 30 dead in a new attack of jihadists of the ADF in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 30 people have died and several wounded: is the provisional toll of the clashes between the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the guerrillas of the group of Ugandan ...
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  30 November 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Inauguration of the "multipurpose room" of the Catholic parish in Gaza Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - A multipurpose room has been completed in the Catholic parish in Gaza, which now can be used as space equipped to meet the diverse needs of the local community. The room, equipped with a large stag ...
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  30 November 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: during Advent let us pray for the liberation of Mosul Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In all the Chaldean churches in the world, during Advent and during the daily celebrations, the faithful will pray to invoke the gift of liberation of Mosul and the entire Nineveh Plain, and ask ...
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  27 November 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - The death of Don Luigi Mazzucato, for over half a century director of Cuamm Padua (Agenzia Fides) - "Sad, but with the serenity that comes from the fulfillment of a long life devoted to others, we announce the death of Don Luigi Mazzucato, director of Doctors with Africa-Cuamm 1955-2008". Th ...
• 27 November 2015
  VATICAN - Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples: missionary awareness and young Churches 50 years after the Ad Gentes Decree Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, November 30 at 9 am, the XIX Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (CEP) begins at the John Paul II Auditorium of the Pontifical Urbaniana Univ ...
• 27 November 2015
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of the Coadjutor Bishop of Bà Ria Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 November 2015 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Emmanuel Nguyen Hong Son, Vicar general of the same diocese as Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese of Bà Ria (Vietnam). The new Coadjutor wa ...
• 27 November 2015
  AMERICA/CANADA - Appointment of the Bishop of Whitehorse Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 November 2015 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Héctor Vila, Rector of the Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Toronto as Bishop of the Diocese of Whitehorse (Canada). The newly-elected Bish ...
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  27 November 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Moratorium on the death penalty: appreciation of civil society and the Church Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia has declared a moratorium on executions. According to observers, the decision was taken for economic reasons, given that several countries had feared a reduction of trade relations wit ...
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  27 November 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Bishops appeal for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Australia are opposed to death penalty and have asked to abolish it throughout the world, making themselves available to contribute effectively to this goal: as Fides learns, this ...
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  27 November 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - For the Bishops: to encourage gambling addiction "is a crime against the poorest" Lomas de Zamora (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the possible imminent opening of a "bingo" club, already built in the area of Puente la Noria, in the district of Lomas de Zamora in Buenos Aires, and after having informed th ...
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  27 November 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "Stop shedding the blood of the Congolese" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We must stop shedding the blood of the Congolese" write the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo in their message issued at the end of the Permanent Committee of the Conférence Episcop ...
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  27 November 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - The greetings of a resident in Kibera to Pope Francis: "I am proud to live in an informal settlement" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "I am proud to live in an informal settlement that I call home", said Pamella Akwede, a resident in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, in her speech in front of Pope Francis, during a meeting held in ...