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  8 October 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians pray for the release of Asia Bibi Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Pakistan await with bated breath, immersed in prayer, the conclusion of the final hearing today 8 October, at 1pm local time infront of the Supreme Court, a panel of three judges, ...
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  8 October 2018
  AFRICA - The Nobel Peace Prize is "the symbol of an Africa that refuses to be overwhelmed by cruelty" Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - The 16th Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Congolese physician Denis Mukwege. In a list of 331 candidates he was chosen for the commitment of being a man of Africa against the use of sexual violen ...
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  6 October 2018
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Support for the education of young people, thanks to the missionaries Songea (Agenzia Fides) - From misery to degree. That of Upendo, a girl from Songea, Tanzania, is a story of determination, solidarity and social redemption. One of those stories made possible thanks to the commitment of ...
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  6 October 2018
  VATICAN - Special Fides: Young missionaries, witnesses of Christ giving their lives Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the month of October, traditionally dedicated to missions, and in the year the Synod of Bishops is dedicated to the vocational discernment of the young, Fides News Agenc ...
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  6 October 2018
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - Family reception and educational programs: support for Kyrgyz children Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - "It was the urgent need for support and accommodation for children without parental care that pushed the non-profit organization SOS Children's Villages, in 1996, to start working in the Republi ...
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  6 October 2018
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Where the Love of Christ triumphs, hope arrives, says a teacher at the Caritas Technical School Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Esther Mwayemwana comes from the Trobriand Islands (MBP), and has taught at Caritas over the past 10 years. "My career as a teacher took me to the Caritas Technical Secondary School in 200 ...
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  6 October 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Porras: Venezuelan migration is an excrutiating reality Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Baltasar Porras, after his return to Venezuela, wanted to comment on the reality of migration in the entire Latin American context. "It is not a group that goes away, it is a multitude ...
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  5 October 2018
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - The Missio sui iuris celebrates 21 years Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - The Tajik Catholic Church has celebrated 21 years since the establishment of the Missio sui Iuris. This is what Father Pedro Ramiro López reports to Agenzia Fides, a priest of the Institute of ...
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  5 October 2018
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - The Church listens to young people and reaches out to them Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - Listening to young people, sharing their knowledge and difficulties, raising awareness and including them in programs and services provided by Caritas and other socially responsible partner or ...
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  5 October 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - A "wounded and bleeding" society: new protests announced while repression continues Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "The people who do not know their own history are condemned to repeat it" is one of the popular expressions in Latin America. In Nicaragua, since the beginning of the demonstrations against the ...
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  5 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Tension on the eve of the presidential vote Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - There are 9 candidates for the presidential election scheduled for Sunday 7 October in Cameroon. Among these there is outgoing President, Paul Biya, 85, in power since 1982, who aims at obtaini ...
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  4 October 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Church alongside the government: to improve the quality of life of the population Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - The reconstruction works of various oil plants announced by Makhambet Dosmukhambetov, Deputy Minister for Energy in Kazakhstan, will bring "improvements in the quality of life of the Kazakh peopl ...
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  4 October 2018
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "The war in South Sudan has also hit the Church in Sudan" says the Bishop of El Obeid Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The separation between Sudan and South Sudan has left a great emptiness at an ecclesial level here in the North", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Yunan Tombe Triller Kuku Andali, Bishop of El ...
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  4 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Alarm of Christian leaders: violence mainly affects women, children and the elderly Jos (Agenzia Fides) - About 6 thousand people, especially women, children and the elderly, of families of Christian farmers were brutally mutilated and killed in night raids by Fulani armed herdsmen, starting from Januar ...
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  4 October 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Caritas implements a National Refugee Integration Plan Roraima (Agenzia Fides) - A "national plan for integration" and solidarity towards refugees: this is what the Brazilian Church has presented in response to the emergency in the country. The plan was launched with the sup ...