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  6 October 2015
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Tensions between Haiti and Santo Domingo for economic measures, the Bishops denounce those who sow discord Santiago de los Caballeros (Agenzia Fides) - Three Dominican Bishops have specifically asked the authorities of Santo Domingo and Haiti to restore harmonious, social and commercial ties between the two countries. Accord ...
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  6 October 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Sectarian clashes in Samalut, the "city of martyrs": ten Copts wounded Minya (Agenzia Fides) - At least ten Copts were wounded and several shops and homes attacked and devastated, but fortunately no victims: this is the toll of the sectarian clashes that on Monday, October 5 shocked the tow ...
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  6 October 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Ministry of Justice: Christian property will be protected Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi government will adopt measures to protect the real estate property of Christians who have left the Country, and to prevent that their homes and their land illegally change owner during ...
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  6 October 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Catholic beaten by Muslim teachers: "He cannot be a headmaster" Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Saddique Azam, a Catholic teacher appointed headmaster at a primary school in a small village, was beaten and tortured by a group of Muslim extremist teachers who rejected his authority. Muslim te ...
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  6 October 2015
  ASIA - Religious freedom and human rights in ASEAN Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Defend and promote freedom of belief or religion as a universal, inalienable and non-derogable human right for all persons, for individuals and communities of ASEAN, the Association of nations o ...
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  6 October 2015
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appeal from Christian leaders: "No to ethnic or religious manipulations before the vote" Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "Beware of politicians who aim at dividing the population on the basis of a religious or ethnic group in order to obtain electoral advantage". This is the joint appeal launched by the Epis ...
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  5 October 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girls kidnapped and raped by Muslims Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christian girls were kidnapped and raped by a group of Muslim men. Two of the criminals were arrested, three are still at large in the city of Jaranwala, in Punjab. The victims are defended ...
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  5 October 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - Food security, a right for all Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - Ensuring food security for every citizen: is what the "Right to Food and Work Network" demands and in West Bengal has launched a campaign calling on the government to comply with the national l ...
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  5 October 2015
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Rescuers at work after the landslides swept away a village: 131 dead and 300 missing Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - There is little hope of finding people alive under the mountain of mud which submerged the town of Santa Caterina Pinula, Guatemala. The total of confirmed dead has risen to 131, but so f ...
• 5 October 2015
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "We are all called to work for reconciliation" says Cardinal Ouédraogo after the failed coup Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "A new situation requires new tasks" said Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, during the Mass he celebrated on Sunday, October 4 at the Marian Shrine of "Notre Dame de Y ...
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  5 October 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Improving access to education for children Riobamba (Agenzia Fides) - The delivery of 100 school kits to children, girls and adolescents in the canton of Chambo, by the Ministry for Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES), along with cooperating institutions involve ...
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  5 October 2015
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishop of Punta Arenas thanks for the clarification on the gas supply Punta Arenas (Agenzia Fides) - After the complaint registered by the Bishop of the Diocese of Punta Arenas, His Exc. Mgr. Miguel Bernardo Bastres Florence, S.D.B. who had asked for transparency on the agreements between ...
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  5 October 2015
  ASIA/TURKEY - Minority schools are likely to close due to lack of pupils Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the school year, at least 24 schools belonging to foundations and organizations linked to Christian communities and other religious minorities in Turkey are in difficulty and ...
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  5 October 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: Christians who present themselves as candidates in the Salafist lists are not credible Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Christians who present themselves as candidates in the Islamist Salafist lists "lack credibility" because "no one can live following two opposite thoughts". This is the peremptory judgment that Co ...
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  2 October 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Hindo " McCain’s disturbing words on anti-Assad rebels armed by the CIA" Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) - "US Senator John McCain protested saying that the Russians are not bombing the positions of the Islamic State, but rather the anti-Assad rebels trained by the CIA. I find these words are distur ...