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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 ...
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  11 June 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Mbandaka denounce: "We are abandoned by the State" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops emphasize that the Equator is not connected well to the rest of the Country, which is abandoned to itself and does not benefit from the assistance of the central government. All th ...
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  8 June 2018
  ASIA/CHINA - The solemnity of Corpus Domini celebrated by Catholics with public processions in cities and villages throughout China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - From the larger cities, such as Beijing and Guangzhou, to the smaller and more remote villages, Chinese Catholics celebrated the solemnity of Corpus Domini in streets and squares with Eucharisti ...
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  8 June 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKISTAN - President Nazarbaev invites Pope Francis and Cardinal Parolin to Astana Astana (Agenzia Fides) - Kazakh President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, invited Pope Francis to participate in the VI Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Astana in October. Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, speaker o ...
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  8 June 2018
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Church commitment to broadcasting Radio Ecclesia in various communities Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - The process of extending the signal of the Angolan Catholic radio station Radio Ecclesia is currently underway in Angola which, from the capital Luanda, can now reach more remote provinces. In ...
• 8 June 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Raiganj Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Holy Father has appointed the rev. Fr. Fulgence Aloysius Tigga, of the clergy of Bettiah, currently Vicar General and Parish priest of the Mother of God Church, as Bishop of the d ...