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  9 October 2015
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Catholic Church and Public Health together against dengue Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) has launched an alert in the Sánchez Ramírez province, in particular in the municipality of Cotuí, due to the high percentage of dengue cases which a ...
• 9 October 2015
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Nobel Peace Prize: "Tunisia shows that democracy is possible in the Arab Muslim world" Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "We are happy because it is a recognition and encouragement to Tunisian democracy" said to Agenzia Fides Fr. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Tunisia, comment ...
• 9 October 2015
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Scalabrini Fest 2015: migration characterizes the history of humanity Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - "Many of the issues that now occupy the top positions in the international debate on migration also existed in the past, which saw this phenomenon in constant evolution. Migration, in fact, ch ...
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  9 October 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Tentorio's murder is "a blood stain on justice" Kidapawan (Agenzia Fides) - Four years after the killing of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, PIME missionary who was shot dead on October 17, 2011 in Kidapawan on the island of Mindanao, the case remains unsolved and investigations ...
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  9 October 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Nuncio Diquattro representative of the Holy See at the World Conference on Climate Change La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, Apostolic Nuncio in Bolivia, was appointed representative of the Holy See at the Second World Conference on Climate Change, to be held from 10 to 12 October 201 ...
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  9 October 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Cardinal Pimiento: "Vote-buying is a crime" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jose de Jesus Pimiento invoked consistency in discussions for a peace agreement between the government and FARC, warning about the lack of justice, truth and irreparable errors. The note ...
• 9 October 2015
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Archbishop of Conakry: "Sunday's elections: a test of democracy and political maturity" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "Our Country is about to undergo a revealing test of its level of political maturity", said His Exc. Mgr. Vincent Coulibaly, Archbishop of Conakry, in a message for the presidential elections to ...
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  9 October 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Organizations call on President al-Sisi to reopen the investigation into the massacre of Maspero Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – After four years of the so-called massacre of Maspero, the Copts of Egypt Coalition - independent organization of the Coptic Orthodox Church, but animated by militant lay Copts - has asked Presi ...
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  9 October 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Two Iraqi sisters go and live among the Christian refugees camped in Erbil Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The two Little Sisters of Charles de Foucauld are called Afnan and Alice and have chosen to live in a camp in Ankawa, on the outskirts of Erbil, where thousands of Christians of the Nineveh Plain, ...
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  8 October 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bible in Tzotzil language, completed the work desired by more than 350,000 faithful Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) – With a Mass in Tzotzil language, the completion of the translation of the Bible in Tzotzil language was celebrated in the indigenous community of Zinacantan, after 25 years of work in 59 commu ...
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  8 October 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - The jihadists release the video of the execution of three Assyrian hostages Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - Three of the Assyrian Christians in the valley of Khabur held hostage by jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) were subjected to capital punishment by their kidnappers. The video of the execut ...
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  8 October 2015
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Clashes between police and protesters, the Church is the only intermediary Managua (Agenzia Fides) - A policeman was killed, 31 were wounded: 8 civilians and 23 policemen, after the clash on Tuesday, October 6 among workers of the Canadian mine B2Gold and police, during a protest in the northwe ...
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  8 October 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A missionary: "The Italian Del Torchio kidnapped for money" Zamboanaga (Agenzia Fides) - "The news is very vague and nothing is known about the perpetrators of the kidnapping of Rolando Del Torchio, today a restaurant owner and former missionary of PIME (Pontifical Institute for ...
• 8 October 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Perplexity about the creation of 28 new States Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The decision of President Salva Kiir to divide South Sudan (see Fides 03/10/2015) with the creation of 28 new States is provoking criticism. "I would have preferred to hear that the government is t ...
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  8 October 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Child malnutrition in Gaza: Caritas Jerusalem intervenes Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - Most of the one million and 800 thousand inhabitants of the Gaza Strip cannot afford adequate food, partly because of higher food prices following the latest Israeli military action. Children and y ...