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  10 July 2018
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Bishops: "Elections are an opportunity to build a new Zimbabwe" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe, we hope and we pray, that the coming elections of 30th July 2018 will be such a moment for us all" write the Bishops of Zimbabwe in the pastoral letter entitled "Opening a new door" ...
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  9 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Towards CAM 5: families and the Church of Santa Cruz open the door of their home and their heart to the delegates Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - The delegates who will take part in the Fifth American Missionary Congress (CAM 5), which opens tomorrow, Tuesday 10 July, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, will end on Saturd ...
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  9 July 2018
  AFRICA/ IVORY COAST - Depenalization of abortion: moral and political regression Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "If the Ivorian Bishops have already energetically raised their voice to say No to the bill on reproductive health that has the fundamental objective of decriminalizing abortion and medically as ...
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  9 July 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Focolare Youth in Asia: fraternity in human relations, in politics, in economics Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Pathways to fraternity": is the project launched by over 6,000 young people who participated in the "Genfest", the international festival of the Focolare Youth Movement held in Manila. The proje ...
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  9 July 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Corruption is a cancer that must be eradicated urgently" say religious leaders Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Corruption is a cancer that has pervaded every sector of our society, and which the current laws have proved inadequate to address. There is therefore an urgent need to take radical action to e ...
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  9 July 2018
  AMERICA/HAITI - After violent demonstrations 2 people have died, the increase in the price of petrol has been suspended Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - After violent protests in the capital and in the city of Cap-Haitien, in the north of the country, Friday 6 and Saturday 7 July, the government of Haiti announced the suspension of a fuel ...
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  9 July 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - A mega-statue of Saint Charbel will be inaugurated on the heights of Hammana Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – The-sixteen-meter mega-statue representing Lebanese Saint Charbel will be inagurated on the heights of the village of Hammana in the next few days. From there, the statue will dominate the surr ...
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  7 July 2018
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - The project of several religious orders against trafficking: the phenomenon changes face but does not stop Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - On the day of the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, June 27, the agreement that allows the Adoratrices, the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and the Oblates of the Most Holy Redeemer to work ...
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  6 July 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Interventions for flood victims: sign of a united and "outgoing" Church New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Violent rains have devastated the states of north-eastern India and the southern state of Kerala: water has flooded roads and highways, causing the suspension of electricity and making the aff ...
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  6 July 2018
  ASIA/CHINA - Msgr. Joseph Li Mingshu, Bishop of Qingdao has died Qingdao (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Msgr. Joseph Li Mingshu, Bishop of Qingdao, in the province of Shandong (Mainland China) died on Friday, June 15 at the age of 93. He was born on December 1, 1924 in the village of L ...
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  6 July 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Child trafficking in the Center of the Sisters of Mother Teresa: a woman arrested, two nuns arrested Ranchi (Agenzia Fides) - A nun and a staff member at Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Ranchi, which welcomes single mothers, were arrested by the police for allegedly selling babies born to unwed mothers. The ...
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  6 July 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM) begin meetings regarding isolated natives Madre de Dios (Agenzia Fides) - With the participation of members from Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, yesterday morning the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM) began a meeting in the city of Puerto Maldonado, in Peru, to pla ...
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  6 July 2018
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The parish priest of Bethlehem: the baptized are disappearing in the city where Jesus was born Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - The baptized are dramatically disappearing in the city where Jesus was born. While groups that pocket offers using the name of Bethlehem, without then sending any kind of help to the Christian ...
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  6 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Towards CAM 5: the main missionary institutes born in America Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the Fifth American Missionary Congress (CAM 5) which will be celebrated in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, from 10 to 14 July (see Fides 3 and 4/7/2018), here is some informati ...
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  5 July 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - New orionine mission to respond to the pastoral and human emergency of Venezuelan refugees Pacaraima (Agenzia Fides) - Pacaraima, state and diocese of Roraima, a small city that borders with Venezuela, is the main access route by land to Brazil for the Venezuelan people fleeing from a terrible situation, whic ...