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  22 September 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Women, widows and orphans who live in absolute precariousness continues to increase Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Data from South Sudan, the third Country in sub-Saharan Africa with the highest number of oil reserves, are shocking. There is talk of a million and a half displaced persons, widows and orphans, an ...
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  22 September 2015
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Dengue: alert in hospitals and health centers in the Country Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The main pediatric hospitals in the capital and private health centers continue to report an increase in visits to their surgeries and hospitalizations of patients suspected of dengue. So ...
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  22 September 2015
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Burkina Faso's army has given coup leaders an ultimatum to surrender Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The crisis is evolving in a positive way, but is not over yet", sources of the Church in Burkina Faso told Fides, where military coup leaders have announced the release of the Prime Ministe ...
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  22 September 2015
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The National Assembly of the PMS: solidarity with our brothers in the East Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - From 14 to 17 September the 48th National Assembly of the Missions, organized by the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) and the Department of Missions of the Episcopa ...
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  22 September 2015
  AFRICA - Africa prepares to welcome Pope Francis Rome (Agenzia Fides) - While Pope Francis continues his visit in America, the details of his next trip in late November in three African countries (Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic) are being specified. Acc ...
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  22 September 2015
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Compensation for the burning of the church in Tabgha Tabgha (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 21 September, Israel's Attorney General announced that the State of Israel will offer compensation to the Sanctuary of the Miracle of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes, in Tabgha, ...
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  22 September 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A Fatwa to allow the Copts on the electoral Salafist lists Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The use of an old Fatwa helped leaders of the Salafist al-Nour Party, issued by Sheikh Mohammed Nasreddin Albanian al Albani, to justify in the eyes of the more rigid leaders and activists, the re ...
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  22 September 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - The Andhra Pradesh government assures support to Churches Secunderabad (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Indian state of Andra Pradesh assures services and rights to Christian minorities, and the protection of church properties: is what emerged from the recent meeting in ...
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  22 September 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A Fatwa to allow the Copts on the electoral Salafist lists Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The use of an old Fatwa helped leaders of the Salafist al-Nour Party, issued by Sheikh Mohammed Nasreddin Albanian al Albani, to justify in the eyes of the more rigid leaders and activists, the re ...
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  21 September 2015
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The story of a missionary: "Making Jesus present among poor people who struggle to get by" Adaba (Agenzia Fides) - "A year has gone by since I started my 'fidei donum' service in the Church of Robe in Ethiopia, so I thought I would tell you about the progress made": writes to Fides Fr. Giuseppe Ghirelli, curre ...
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  21 September 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Free surgeries for children and adults with cleft lip and palate Nuevo Laredo (Agenzia Fides) - 44 people, including children and adults have benefited from free surgeries for cleft lip by the System of Integral Development of the Family (DIF) - Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. For the secon ...
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  21 September 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violence against a Christian family to steal the house and land Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - A Christian family risked being burned alive due to the attack of a group of Muslims who wanted to steal their home and their land. As reported to Fides by Christian lawyer Sardar Mushtaq Gill ...
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  21 September 2015
  ASIA/LAOS - One of the Christians condemned for praying for a sick woman has died in prison Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - Tiang, a Christian from the village of Huey, in the district of Atsaphangthong, part of the territory of the province of Savannakhet died in prison, because of a serious complication of diab ...
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  21 September 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - New Assyrian Patriarch elected. And the patriarchal seat could return to Iraq Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – The new Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East will be called Mar Gewargis Sliwa III, and the liturgical ceremony for his inauguration will be held in Erbil on 27 September. He succeeds Ma ...
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  21 September 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Heads of Churches in Jerusalem condemn the violence at the Temple Mount Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Heads of Churches in Jerusalem express "serious concern" about the recent violence carried out on the Temple Mount in the clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian Muslims, and expres ...