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  5 June 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Environment Day: educating young people to fight against climate change and to defend the common home Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Today, June 5, we celebrate Environment Day, an anniversary shared by an increasing number of ecclesial institutions and bodies, also thanks to the impulse given by Pope Francis with the encyclic ...
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  5 June 2019
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Seminar to block female genital mutilation Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "Female genital mutilation is not punished and still continues to be practiced", says Benjamim da Silva Sanca, at thehead of the National Committee for the Abandonment of Harmful Traditional Prac ...
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  5 June 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - Priest killed Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was killed in Kenya. Fr. Eutycas Murangiri Muthur, of the parish of Limbine, diocese of Meru, county of Tigania, was stabbed to death by one or more individuals at about 1.30 ...
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  5 June 2019
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Young Christians close to the poorest Muslims for the end of Ramadan Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians have shown their great hearts. We are impressed by their love, compassion and hospitality. The Iftar meal, prepared by them for the end of Ramadan, has strengthened religious harmony, ...
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  5 June 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - In Mosul, young Christians distribute roses to Muslims for the Eid al Fitr festival Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Young Christians, Yazidis and Shabaks, offer white roses and sweets to their Muslim fellow citizens on the occasion of Eid al Fitr, the Islamic festival that ends the holy month of Ramadan. This i ...
• 4 June 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Appointment of the Vicar Apostolic of Reyes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 June 2019, the Holy Father Francis appointed as vicar apostolic of Reyes, Bolivia, H.E. Msgr. Waldo Rubén Barrionuevo Ramírez, C.SS.R., currently apostolic administrator of the same ...
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  4 June 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Chaire Gynai", Welcome, woman: the integration project for migrant women celebrates its first anniversary Rome (Agenzia Fides) – To welcome, protect, promote and integrate: the 4 verbs of migration, launched by Pope Francis, are summarized in "Chaire Gynai" (which means "Welcome, woman"), a project wanted by the Pope himse ...
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  4 June 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Week of prayer for Christian unity dedicated to justice Saint Paul (Agenzia Fides) - In the days preceding the solemnity of Pentecost, this year on Sunday, June 9, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (SOUC) is celebrated in the southern hemisphere. The theme is inspired by ...
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  4 June 2019
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Podcast to announce the Gospel: an online Catholic radio is born Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The archdiocese of Singapore has launched "The Catholic Singapore Radio". The project was inaugurated on June 2, which coincided with the World Day of Social Communications, in the Cathedral o ...
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  4 June 2019
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Buddhists help needy Muslims during Ramadan Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - "We serve iftar meals to the Muslim brothers and sisters during the holy Ramadan, to contribute to religious harmony and humanity": says to Agenzia Fides monk Buddhapriya Mahathero, president of t ...
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  4 June 2019
  ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - 139 countries sign the "Mecca Declaration": no to Islamophobia Mecca (Agenzia Fides) - 139 Muslim-majority countries have ratified the new "Mecca declaration", adjuged in recent days under the direction of the Mufti of Saudi Arabia at the end of the XIV ordinary session of the Organ ...
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  4 June 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Cheap electricity, obtained at the cost of the health of coal miners" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We often boast, as a nation, of having cheap electricity, which is based on coal, but its human costs remain invisible", says the Justice and Peace Commission of the Southern African Catho ...
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  4 June 2019
  AFRICA - No to "anesthetized Christianity": there is no Christian mission without a cross Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "One of the great existential orientations of our world today is to want to 'anesthetize' everything. Many Christians in Africa dream of a peaceful life, devoid of all suffering and sacrifices. In ...
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  3 June 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Women, the poor and young: the main challenges of the Mexican Church Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Violence that continues to increase, the lack of job opportunities and the urgent need to improve education, the key to any change, represent the main challenges that the Church has to face. ...
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  3 June 2019
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Pentecostal Christians gathered in prayer Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - More than thirty Christians, members of the Pentecostal Churches, were arrested by security forces in recent days. The police stopped them while they were gathered in prayer in three different pl ...