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  2 March 2018
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "We live in fear awaiting the constitutional referendum that would allow the President to remain in power until 2034" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "In Burundi, we are living in a state of terror because of pressure from President Pierre Nkurunziza to approve the reform of the Constitution", sources of the Church tell Agenzia Fides that d ...
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  2 March 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A missionary: "It is time for a new law for the common good in Mindanao" Marawi (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace in Mindanao is possible only if we educate everyone to consider themselves as brothers and sisters": says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Sebastiano D'Ambra, missionary of the Pontifical Institute fo ...
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  2 March 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi religious leaders: a law is needed to punish fanaticism that instigates hatred Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Heads of religious communities in Iraq will ask the Iraqi parliament to pass a law to punish forms of religious propaganda that instigate hatred and violence. This is what was reported by the Pa ...
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  2 March 2018
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Bishops: "No Ecuadorian must justify, tolerate or relativize corruption" Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "In the face of the strong accusations of corruption and the reciprocal reprimands of which various authorities in the moral, legal and political fields are protagonists", the Bishops of Ecuador p ...
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  2 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The educational system promotes intolerance and discrimination: the new "Faith and a Future" Report Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Textbooks, educational programs and the education system in Pakistan fuel the promotion of intolerance and discrimination against religious minorities. The State, with a Muslim majority, has c ...
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  1 March 2018
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Young Catholics: learning leadership from Jesus Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Jesus Christ is the model and the best example from whom to learn the style of leadership: as Fides learns, this is what young Catholics of Vietnam think gathered in the Catholic youth group "Nhom ...
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  1 March 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "The increase in VAT and the price of fuel will be felt mostly by poorer people" warn the Bishops Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The increase in VAT will be felt mostly by poorer people" warns the Parliamentary Liaison Office of the SACBC (Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference) in an analysis of the economic ...
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  1 March 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: democracy must be guarded Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Filipinos should "celebrate, guard and cherish the gift of democracy", gained after overthrowing dictator Ferdinand Marcos on February 25, 1986: say the Bishops of the Philippines recalling the 3 ...
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  1 March 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Egyptian government "legalizes" 53 churches built before the law on Christian places of worship Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian government has provided full legal certificates to 53 churches with annexed service buildings already built before the new law on the construction of Christian buildings of worship pa ...
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  1 March 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Misión frontera Venezuela" begins: listening to immigrants fleeing from Venezuela Boa Vista (Agenzia Fides) - "In the last 45 days more than 18,000 Venezuelans have arrived in Roraima, it is estimated that between 300 and 400 people arrive every day, all in need of information and with a great desire ...
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  1 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian priest, Rector of a shrine, stabbed to death in Kerala Kochy (Agenzia Fides) - A priest from Kerala, South India, was stabbed to death while he was going to the Kurisumudi pilgrim center in Malayattoor in Ernakulam-Ankamaly Archdiocese today, 1 March. As confirmed to Agenzia ...
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  1 March 2018
  ASIA/CHINA - "Year of the Youth" in the Archdiocese of TaiYuan: the young Chinese people towards the Synod Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of the Youth opened in the Archdiocese of Tai Yuan, in the province of Shanxi, in the northern part of the People's Republic of China. As Agenzia Fides learns from "Faith", over two tho ...
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  28 February 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Young people promote interreligious peace and harmony, for a future of justice Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people are aware of their role and their contribution to strengthening communion, peace and harmony among young people of different religions in the nation": this is what Vishal Anand tel ...
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  28 February 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - The re-opening of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. A government commission will address disputes over church properties Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of the Holy Sepulcher opened its doors on February 28th, 2018 at 4.00 AM. The protest, which started last Sunday due to the decision of the leaders of the three ecclesial realities ...
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  28 February 2018
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - A small community of Somali Christians lives their faith in hiding Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - A small community of Somali Christians lives in Mogadishu. There are about thirty elderly people. They live hidden for fear of the reprisals of Islamic fundamentalists. But, they consider thei ...