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  4 July 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Assassins of social leaders and uncertainty regarding peace agreements catalyze the Bishops' debate Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Assembly of Bishops of Colombia is currently underway on the theme "The economy at the service of human dignity and the common good" (see Fides, 2/7/2019), but the presentation of the differ ...
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  4 July 2019
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Catholic Church - "important advisor" in the national social dialogue San José (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, met yesterday, July 3, the Archbishop of San José, Mgr. José Rafel Quirós, for more than two hours, with the aim of establishin ...
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  4 July 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Heads of Churches distance themselves from Rayan "the Chaldean", leader of the Babylon movement Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The expressions and modus operandi of Rayan al Kildani ("the Chaldean"), leader and general secretary of the "Babylon" political movement, seem disrespectful and dishonorable towards realities a ...
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  3 July 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Criminals kill layman as he opens the church Morón (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Morón, Mgr. Jorge Vázquez, expressed his "profound sadness" regarding the murder of 80-year-old Ernesto Cavazza, a parishioner and lay person involved in the life o ...
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  2 July 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Unemployment rate among Christian men is the highest in the nation New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Indian Christians are among the last in terms of human development in Indian society. The rate of unemployment among Christian men in rural as well as urban areas is higher than those from oth ...
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  2 July 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - To humanize the digital world: the theme of the Bishops' Justice and Peace Commission report Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "This year's report on social justice will be titled ‘Making it Real - Genuine human encounter in our digital world’. The text states the positive opportunities of encounter and solidarity of ...
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  2 July 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Cardinal Tobin: "Children must not be used as pawns for political ends" Newark (Agenzia Fides) - "Like many of you, I was horrified by the picture of Oscar Martinez and his daughter, Angie Valeria, lying lifelessly by the Rio Grande after fleeing their country to seek refuge in our country. ...
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  2 July 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Caritas participates in the fight against Ebola Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 1,500 people have died out of 2,200 confirmed cases of Ebola infection since August 2018 in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the C ...
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  2 July 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops in assembly: "to put economy at the service of all and not just a few" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Economy at the service of human dignity and the common good" is the theme of reflection of the Plenary Assembly of the Colombian Bishops' Conference (CEC) which opened yesterday, 1 July. During ...
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  2 July 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian authorities: may the "Way of the Holy Family" be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Ministry for Antiquities has edited the publication, in English and Arabic, of a booklet illustrated on the "Way of the Holy Family, the itinerary that unites the places crossed accor ...
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  2 July 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Young people from the diocese of Tombura-Yambio: future and hope of the Church and society Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - Children and young people are the hope and the future of the Church and society in South Sudan: with this spirit the diocese of Tombura-Yambio organized the second annual diocesan meeting for chi ...
• 1 July 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appointment of the Bishop of Faisalabad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On June 29, 2019 the Holy Father appointed the rev. Indrias Rehmat, of the clergy of Faisalabad, currently Dean of the National Catholic Institute of Theology (N.C.I.T.) in Karachi, as Bi ...
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  1 July 2019
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Ark Village for the education of orphaned children, with the support of volunteers Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "Time passes quickly and we are increasingly immersed in our commitments, all focused on the well-being and development of children. Among the emergencies faced, there is that of providing childr ...
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  1 July 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch calls for the protection of seats reserved for minorities in the Provincial Councils Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako calls on the Iraqi Parliament to find systems that also protect the quota of seats reserved for Christians and other minority ethnic-religious groups in pro ...
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  1 July 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Also for the Church of Bolivia the month of October "will be something extraordinary" Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - "For us too, this October will be something extraordinary and an important opportunity to renew our missionary spirit as a Church in Bolivia. But it is important not only to think about October, b ...