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  11 April 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A reform of the educational system is urgently needed to promote religious harmony Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - In the Pakistani educational system, reforms and improvements are needed to promote tolerance and religious harmony in society: this is what Catholic Peter Jacob, director of the "Center for Soci ...
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  11 April 2018
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - The Bishops: "A presidential pardon to thin out prisons where 16,000 detainees live in spaces for 4,000 people" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – To offer presidential pardon for those guilty of minor crimes and hire new magistrates to speed up trials. This is the appeal launched by the Catholic Church in Côte d'Ivoire where the situat ...
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  11 April 2018
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - To safeguard human rights and the environment: the Church's commitment in Oceania Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, have gathered in Port Moresby from 11 to 18 April in an assembly that is focus ...
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  11 April 2018
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - New families for a new world Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "Family is the cell of society and in the family God invites us to become a small holy community, so that the light illuminates the darkness of the human heart and a source of inexhaustible g ...
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  AFRICA/UGANDA - Appointment of National Director of the PMS, Fr. Pontian Kaweesa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 18 January 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Pontian Kaweesa, of the diocesan clergy of Kiyinda-Mityana ...
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  11 April 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish sources: US politicians ask to witness the trial against evangelical pastor Brunson Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - Some US senators have sent the Turkish Ministry of Justice the request to be present at the upcoming trial against Andrew Craig Brunson, the US evangelical pastor detained in Turkey on charges of ...
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  11 April 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops of the border defend Venezuelan immigrants Puerto Carreño (Agenzia Fides) – There is major concern "for the growing wave of emigrants towards border cities such as Puerto Carreño and Puerto Inirida" in Colombia, in addition to the need to implement "pastoral ...
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  10 April 2018
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Casamance: "There is a resumption of violence: we pray strongly for peace": says the Bishop of Ziguinchor Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "We must complain about an increase in violence following the tragedy that occurred in January", said His Exc. Mgr. Paul Abel Mamba, Bishop of Ziguinchor, capital of Casamance, southern region of ...
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  10 April 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - A thousand sister doctors are dedicated to health care for the most disadvantaged Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - More than a thousand sister doctors in India silently contribute to the health care of the poorest and most marginalized. As Agenzia Fides learns, the "Sister Doctors Forum of India" (SDFI) is a ...
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  10 April 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: ecclesiastical universities "providential laboratories" of the outgoing missionary Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The memory of the beginnings of the Urbaniana University "is the memory of the beginnings of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and also its projection. In the missionary fu ...
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  10 April 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Your vote counts": the Church promotes an inclusive electoral system of religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Your vote is important": this is the title of the campaign launched by the National Commission "Justice and Peace" (NCJP), within the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Pakistan, to encourage Chr ...
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  10 April 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Appeal of the Church: the environmental protection of the Amazon is a shared responsibility Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The Venezuelan Amazon: the cry of the earth and the cry of the peoples call for answers" is the title of the document published by REPAM (the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network), on behalf of the Ven ...
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  10 April 2018
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The Camillians in Asia: "The life of the Spirit walks in the mission" Loudong (Agenzia Fides) - "The Camillian missionaries in Asia today have the same joy and enthusiasm as their first years of mission. They are engaged in teaching catechism, in pastoral work, in the most remote areas, in ...
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  9 April 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Young Christians in Asia are committed to the change of society Manado (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people are like lighted candles. We ask the Lord to send his light of truth to guide them. The young Christians of Asia and the world are called to be disciples who, enlightened and saved ...
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  9 April 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "We are abandoned by all" says the Bishop of Goma after the murder of Fr. Étienne Sengiyumva Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Fr. Étienne Sengiyumva, parish priest of Kitchanga, was killed yesterday, Sunday, April 8, in Kyahemba", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Théophile Kaboy Ruboneka, Bishop of Goma, capital ...