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  13 June 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Children in Mbandak sing "Ebola, Go away!" Mbandaka (Agenzia Fides) - In Mbandaka, a city of 1.2 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a major campaign is underway to raise awareness and prevent the Ebola virus which exploded on May 8 in the northwe ...
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  13 June 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "No to the exploitation of religion to sow hatred and division" say Bishops and Imams Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Religion is used to sow hatred among the population and divide the country", denounce in two different but concordant documents, the Catholic Bishops and the Imams of the Central African Republi ...
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  13 June 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch to Christians in Kurdistan: present yourselves united in the next elections Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The next elections for the parliament of the Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan are scheduled for September 30, but already now Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako addresses the whole "Christi ...
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  13 June 2018
  ASIA/CHINA - An exhibition to commemorate the figure of the great Jesuit missionary Martino Martini in Hang Zhou Hang Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - An exhibition dedicated to the cartographic work of Jesuit Fr. Martino Martini (1614-1661) was inaugurated at the headquarters of the China-Italy Center in Hang Zhou, the capital of the Chines ...
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  12 June 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "War on drugs": an approach that respects human rights is necessary Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - An approach respectful of human rights and dignity regarding the problem of drugs in Bangladesh is urgent: says to Agenzia Fides Rita Haldar, a social assistant who works in Dhaka, commenting on t ...
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  12 June 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Lay Catholics call for full light to be shed on the death of a civil rights activist Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) -The circumstances of the death of Luc Nkulula, an activist of the Movement for Change (Lutte pour le Changement -Lucha), whose charred body was found in his house burned in the night between 9 a ...
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  12 June 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishop You: the summit in Singapore is "a new step towards peace: The path is forgiveness" Daejeon (Agenzia Fides) - "The summit between the US and North Korea is a new step towards peace in Korea, Asia and the whole world. I prayed and blessed the two leaders. In those moments the sad years of the war in Kore ...
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  12 June 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Fire in a church, the imam launches the SOS and calls for help from the mosque's loudspeakers Shubra al Khaymah (Agenzia Fides) - The flames of an accidental fire burst in a church in the middle of the night which led to the imam of the nearby mosque to use the speakers of the Muslim place of worship to sound the ...
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  12 June 2018
  AFRICA/MALAWI - New school building built thanks to the solidarity of children Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The construction of a new school building in the district of Dowa has just been completed: two new classes of the Nambuma Boys primary school was officially delivered by the Pontifical Mission ...
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  12 June 2018
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Bishops: proclamation of the Gospel in synodality Havana (Agenzia Fides) – To have a vision of the Cuban reality, and proceed in the name of "synodality" with the sister Churches of the South and Central America, elaborating the guidelines of pastoral action that will ...
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  11 June 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - People ask for transparency and fairness: the Bishops are on the people's side Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Justice will bring about peace; right will produce calm and security": is the biblical verse (Isaiah 32, 17) chosen by the Peruvian Episcopal Conference’s message addressed to public opinion. Th ...
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  11 June 2018
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Christians pray for the US-North Korea summit Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics and Christians of other confessions have gathered in prayer, in several churches in Singapore, in view of the summit between the US and North Korea on the agenda tomorrow, 12 June in ...
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  11 June 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Liturgical songs in Ticuna language Alto Solimões (Agencia Fides) - The peoples of the Amazon preserve a great variety of indigenous languages, some of which are spoken by relatively large groups. One of these is Ticuna, spoken by the population that bear ...
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  11 June 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Political crisis: the people insist on institutional reform and true democracy Sokodé (Agenzia Fides) - "Togo is the only Country in the Gulf of Guinea where leaders make people believe that everything functions at a political, social and economic level. But, the truth is another. How long will th ...
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  11 June 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch says no to the 'naturalization decree': among the beneficiaries there are "suspicious names" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The so-called "naturalization decree" with which the Presidency of Lebanon is preparing to grant the Lebanese nationality to 375 foreigners must absolutely be withdrawn, also because among its po ...