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  22 October 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT -Election: good results for Coptic candidates, Salafi party crash Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – News circulating on the results of a first round of political elections in Egypt held 18 and 19 October in 14 provinces of Upper Egypt (see Fides 19/10/2015), speak of good results for Coptic ca ...
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  22 October 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Leading members of Maronite Foundation stress necessity of recovery of nationality law for expatriate Lebanese Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – The law on the recovery of nationality for Lebanese expatriates is “necessary to preserve balance in Lebanon”, also from a religious point of view. This was affirmed by former MP Michel Edd ...
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  21 October 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Food Poisoning for children in a refugee camp in North Darfur Nyala (Agenzia Fides) - Food poisoning has affected 81 children in two primary schools in the refugee camp in Zamzam, North Darfur. Forty-four were taken to hospital in El Fasher for treatment, while others were taken to ...
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  21 October 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The damage of Typhoon Koppu: Dead, missing, harvests destroyed Cabanatuan (Agenzia Fides) - According to local sources, at least 39 people have died due to Typhoon Koppu which in recent days has devastated the north-east of the Country, knocking down trees and electricity posts. Ove ...
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  21 October 2015
  AMERICA/HAITI - Elections on 25 October: the concerns of the Church Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Less than a week before the presidential, parliamentary and municipal elections, scheduled for Sunday, October 25, the Episcopal Conference of Haiti (CEH) has expressed some concerns. Fir ...
• 21 October 2015
  AFRICA/CONGO - Clashes for the referendum on the third presidential term, the Bishops had long called for dialogue Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - At least four people have died and a dozen injured: is the toll of the violent demonstrations that took place yesterday, 20 October, in the two major cities of the Republic of Congo, the cap ...
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  21 October 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The legalization of marijuana is being discussed, another serious social problem Guanajuato (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 October the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico will discuss the legalization of marijuana, an issue that the Church proposed to be dealt with in a thorough way and analyze the problems ...
• 21 October 2015
  AFRICA/CONGO DRC - Three years after the disappearance of the three Congolese Assumptionists, no word on their fate Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "There is still room for hope" says Fr. Joseph Delvordre, of the congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption (Assumptionists) talking to the Congolese newspaper "Le Potentiel" three year ...
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  21 October 2015
  AASIA/HOLY LAND - Olive harvest has begun in Gethsemane Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The olive harvest in the garden of Gestsemani began on Saturday, October 17 and will last at least one week. As usual, even this year the Franciscan friars, guardian of the Sacred Garden where ...
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  21 October 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite diocese of Zahlé supports the breast cancer awareness campaign Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the month of the breast cancer awareness campaign, Maronite Bishop of Zahle, Mgr. Joseph Mouawad, celebrated a Mass in the church of Our Lady of Zahle and Bekaa, during which t ...
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  20 October 2015
  ASIA/NEPAL - Six months after the earthquake, the country is still a multicoloured patchwork of temporary tarpaulins Charikot (Agenzia Fides) - Six months after a massive earthquake devastated Nepal, people are still living in temporary shelters as political wrangling has prevented the disbursement of billions between April and May ple ...
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  20 October 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New initiative to try to reduce maternal mortality Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - The provincial government of Jiber Pajtunjwa, Pakistan, has created a program for the reduction of maternal mortality which consists in offering $ 10 per visit to every pregnant woman. Accordin ...
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  20 October 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Castro Quiroga: "The opening of dialogue with ELN is positive news" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The recent announcement of dialogue between the Colombian government and the ELN (National Liberation Army) guerrilla group, was judged as a positive sign by the President of the Episcopal Confer ...
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  20 October 2015
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - The Church collects information about people who disappeared during the dictatorship Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church has made all parishes in the country available to the families of detainees who disappeared, in order to gather information to identify their remains. The news contained i ...
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  20 October 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Offensive in Aleppo. Archbishop Marayati: we pay the price of the 'Holy Wars' carried out by others Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The offensive in the region of Aleppo carried out by the Syrian government army with the support of Russian air raids, as well as mass emigration of the civilian population that still lived in th ...