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  12 July 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "No to provocations that come from the self-proclaimed "League for the defense of the Church", warn the Bishops Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are outraged by the statement published by an organization called "The League for the defense of the Church in Central Africa", in which one wants to put in place projects that are contrary t ...
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  12 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - President of the Pontifical Mission Societies encounters the Bishops present at CAM 5 Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) – In the afternoon of 11 July, archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, secretary adjunct of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and President of the Pontifical Mis ...
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  11 July 2018
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: action must be taken to stop the ecological holocaust Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in a critical moment of human history. Faith without action is an empty faith, the Apostle James warns. All our pious convictions require real actions. Martin Luther King used to say: 'So ...
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  11 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Cardinal Filoni opens CAM 5: "Missionary work has a heart, a center, a name: Jesus" Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - "What is missionary work?". Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Special Envoy of the Holy Father Francis at the celebrations ...
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  11 July 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishops: "We will not abandon the Dialogue" despite the aggression and hostility of the government Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "We Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua, decided today (10 July), to continue to provide the service that the government has asked us, as mediators and witnesses of the national Dia ...
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  11 July 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Sectarian assaults after the arrest of a Copt accused of offenses against the Prophet Mohammad Minya (Agenzia Fides) - A young Coptic Egyptian was arrested in the village of Menbal, in the province of Minya, on charges of having shared some videos considered offensive against Prophet Mohammad on social media. The ...
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  11 July 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Lay Catholics: "Concrete measures for credible elections, otherwise actions of protest" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the peace and stability of the country as well as that of the region are being threatened, on 9 August the Lay Coordination Committee will launch an appeal to the general mobilization of ...
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  11 July 2018
  ASIA/THAILAND - Towards the 350th anniversary of the Apostolic Vicariate of Siam Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Almost 350 years have passed since the first Catholic mission in Siam began: to commemorate the imminent anniversary of the Apostolic Vicariate of Siam (Mission of Siam: 1669-2019), the Bishops' ...
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  10 July 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes, bishops and priests attacked inside the church: "Never seen anything like this in Nicaragua" Managua (Agenzia Fides) – During the weekend, a lot of blood was shed in the area of Carazo, with an unknown number of deaths, 9 or maybe more, due to the result of the increasingly violent repression of the government ...
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  10 July 2018
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - Protests against Patriarch Karekin continue. The Supreme Spiritual Council urgently summoned Erevan (Agenzia Fides) - The mobilization of groups of Armenian demonstrators who on July 6 entered the Patriarchal See of the Catholicosate of Echmiadzin to demand the resignation of Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Ca ...
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  10 July 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Filipino Bishops: "Critical collaboration with the President, without compromise" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of the Philippines are willing to continue a "critical collaboration" with the government. After several differences of opinion between the Church and President Rodrigo Duter ...
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  ASIA/INDIA Catholicosato di Echmiadzin per c (Agenzia Fides) – Continua la mobilitazione di gruppi di manifestanti armeni che lo scorso 6 luglio sono entrati nella Sede patriarcale del Catholicosato di Echmiadzin per chiedere le dimissioni di Karekin II, Patriar ...
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  10 July 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Priest killed to rob his van Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - The parish priest of the Nuestra Senora de Fatima parish, in the Archdiocese of Barquisimeto (Venezuela), don Iraluis José Garcia Escobar, 38, was killed yesterday afternoon, Monday 9 July ...
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  10 July 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - For half a century a "village of charity" at the service of the disabled and the population in the Diocese of Dapaong Bombouaka (Agenzia Fides) - The "San Luigi Orione" Center of Bombouaka, in Togo, celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 7th: it is a centre of excellence that in recent years has become a point of reference for the enti ...
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  10 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The missionary cross with the relic of the Blessed Nazaria Ignacia "symbol" of CAM 5 Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - Santa Cruz is one of the nine departments that make up Bolivia. Situated in the eastern part of the country, it is the largest and most populated, occupying a third of the Bolivi ...