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  5 September 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Witnessing the Gospel in a nation with an Islamic majority: the Church's mission in Bangladesh Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Bangladesh reiterates its mission of witnessing the Gospel in a Muslim majority country: this is what emerged from the meeting that saw the gathering of Bishops, priests, nu ...
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  4 September 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Migration routes and the scourge of trafficking in the Amazon are increasing Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - Speaking of trafficking, the first attitude to be taken "is to put yourself in the shoes of victims". In reality, trafficking is a violation of human dignity and rights, a commodification of life ...
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  4 September 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The balance between religious policies and "cult of the state" is at the basis of tolerance Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "In Kazakhstan, the principle of religious tolerance is at the basis of the constitution of the State. Kazakh cities are teeming with magnificent mosques and Orthodox churches harmoniously living ...
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  4 September 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - "Collective Marriage" for 41 couples at the Maronite patriarchal headquarters Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 41 Maronite Christian couples on Sunday 2 September celebrated the sacrament of marriage together in Bkerké, at the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchate, in the now traditional ...
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  4 September 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic priest gives sermon in Kerala mosque: "Thank you for the aid after the floods" Vechoor (Agenzia Fides) - An Indian Catholic priest spoke to an assembly of the Muslim faithful gathered in a mosque for Friday prayers, thanking them for humanitarian aid received after the recent floods in Kerala. As F ...
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  4 September 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Another human rights defender murdered in South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Human rights defenders in Uvira and Fizi, in South Kivu are appalled by the brutal murder of their colleague Masumbuko Birindwa, called Aimable, a very active and highly experienced human righ ...
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  3 September 2018
  AMERICA - Open letter: our peoples condemned to a present and a future of destruction and death Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "The serious and often irreversible damage and violations of human rights and the rights of nature caused by the current mining model, promoted, sustained and nourished by the immoral, inhuman ...
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  3 September 2018
  VATICAN - The Study Seminar for the new Bishops of mission territories begins Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, with greetings from Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and the Eucharistic concelebration presided by the Secretary of CE ...
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  3 September 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA- The Church focuses on social communications to contribute to evangelization Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "It is coming at the right time, soon we will have the radio, so the agents will contribute to the radio programs because people need to know what happens at the grass root levels" said His Exc. ...
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  3 September 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Abuse of the blasphemy law: the floor to the government of Imran Khan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The improper use of the blasphemy law continues in Pakistan, but "it is still unlikely that amendments to defuse these abuses are applied to the controversial legislation", says a Pakistani journ ...
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  3 September 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishops of Asia united: Forum for peace on the Korean peninsula Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – To share an approach of peace and reconciliation applied to politics and society, to share experiences and launch a message of unity: with this spirit, Cardinals and Bishops from all over Asia a ...
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  3 September 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - The project of a city reserved for "Aramaean Christians" has been submitted to the government Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - The project to build a new city reserved for "Aramaean Christians", motivated also with the intention of guarding the language and their Aramaic culture, has been submitted to the attention of ...
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  22 August 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians welcome address of Prime Minister but lament absence of representatives of religious minorities in the Federal Cabinet Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - - "Pakistan’s religious minority citizens still face challenges and serious issues and welcome the fact that Prime Minister Imran Khan has raised the question of equal rights for all citizen ...
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  10 August 2018
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Release of political prisoners: an important step towards peace Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - On 6 August 2018, on the eve of Independence Day, the President of the Republic of the Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara decided to grant pardon to about 800 political prisoners including Simone Gb ...
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  10 August 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Government anti-drug campaign: the Church's commitment to the rehabilitation of drug addicts Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Father Luciano Airel Felloni, an Argentinian missionary who has lived in the Philippines for twenty years, has started a serious effort to rehabilitate drug addicts and lead them to live a meanin ...