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  5 November 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Towards the general elections: everyone's commitment to the common good is urgent Dhaka (Agenzia FIdes) - "We must pray and commit ourselves in order to ensure that the next general elections are just, peaceful and credible": says Anita Haldar, a Catholic, a social worker who works in the Bengali Cath ...
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  31 October 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Impulse to new media to spread the work of Caritas Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not news that our world is increasingly linked to communication. For many people, living means being connected. An approach that certainly has limits and negative aspects. However, we must ...
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  31 October 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi has been acquitted: "A victory for all of Pakistan" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Asia Bibi has been acquitted. In the hearing on October 31st which began at 9 am, a three-member panel of Supreme Court justices, led by the President of the same Court, Judge Mian Saqib Nisar ...
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  31 October 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The diocesan phase of the beatification cause of Mgr. Munzihirwa, killed in Bukavu in 1996, has concluded Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan phase of the beatification cause of His Exc. Mgr. Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo, Archbishop of Bukavu, assassinated in 1996, has concluded. The announcement was made during a p ...
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  31 October 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Archbishop Lozano: "The month of October ends, but not the mission" San Juan de Cuyo (Agenzia Fides) - "October is abount to end, a month dedicated above all to renew ourselves in the conscience and missionary commitment ... October ends, mission no, because it is permanent, it is in the ...
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  31 October 2018
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Bishops on the political crisis: "wisdom and balance prevail" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "Everyone should keep in mind that, if there is instability in the country, it is the people who suffer, so we sincerely appeal to all political parties to put aside their interests and respect ...
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  31 October 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - State resources must be used to alleviate the suffering of the poorest people Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "Need to take urgent measures so that state funds are mainly allocated to implement social policies that respond to the basic and real needs of the population, such as health, education and h ...
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  30 October 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Desecration of religious symbols: Catholics deplore the Pakistani media Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - A peaceful protest against the desecration of the Christian faith and Christian religious symbols was organized by Christians in Karachi who yesterday met in front of the Karachi Press Club. Tho ...
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  30 October 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni inaugurates the Academic Year at Urbaniana: networking to renew the multifaceted face of the Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Confirmation of the "varied face" of the Urbaniana University and "the permanent missionary tension of which it is the bearer" were reiterated this morning by Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Gran ...
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  30 October 2018
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Monastery of Deir el Sultan, tension rises between Coptic Church and Orthodox Church of Ethiopia Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The contrast between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Tewahedo Orthodox Church of Ethiopia about the dispute on Deir el Sultan monastery, the place of worship placed on a roof terrace of the ...
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  30 October 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "80% of youth migration remains in Africa" says Cardinal Souraphiel Rome (Agenzia Fides) - H.E. Berhaneyesus Cardinal Souraphiel, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Ababa said that the international media portrayal of "youth migrating to different areas of the Middle East and Europe on ...
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  30 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Five nuns kidnapped in south-eastern Nigeria, another two injured Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Five nuns of the Order of the Missionary of Martha and Mary of the diocese of Issele-Uku, were kidnapped, in the State of Delta in the south-east of Nigeria. According to news sent to Agenzia Fid ...
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  30 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migration is just the tip of the iceberg of millions of people suffering from poverty, injustice, violence and corruption Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Migration, both in Central America and in Mexico, is just the tip of the iceberg of millions of people suffering from poverty, injustice, violence and corruption", reads the editorial of th ...
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  30 October 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Cardinal D'Rozario: "The care of children is a pastoral priority" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The care and protection of children is a pastoral priority for the Church in Bangladesh: said Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario, Archbishop of Dhaka, who took part in a gathering of pastoral animators wh ...
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  29 October 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Youth and migrants: the response of the Church of Belem on the path towards the 2019 Synod Belem (Agenzia Fides) - A big center for youth Pastoral care, where promoting human and integral formation of young people, is the response of the diocese of Belem, one of the great metropolises of the Amazon, to the gre ...