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  18 January 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch and Maronite Patriarch at the Conference on Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II, Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai and Apostolic Armenian Catholicos Aram I are the most prominent representatives of the Eastern Churches who took part ...
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  18 January 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Francis in Peru, a polarized country and in need of reconciliation Pope Francis' visit to Inca land comes at a critical and therefore providential moment. On the one hand there is the harsh reality of the victims of the north coast of Peru due to the devastation caused by the typhoon El ...
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  18 January 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - "The Pope supports the mission of the Catholic University for quality education" Santiago (Chile) - "We will begin a sort of long exegesis, in various instances, of what the Holy Father told us" says to Agenzia Fides Professor Patricio Bernedo, Dean of History, Geography and Political Sciences of the ...
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  18 January 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Pope in Iquique: there is no Christian joy when when doors are closed to others Iquique (Agenzia Fides) - Openness towards immigrants and foreigners is a sign that Christ is working in our hearts, bringing to fulfillment his "miracle". On the contrary, "we know there is no Christian joy when doors a ...
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  17 January 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - With Pope Francis "the desert of our Church flourishes" Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - "These are intense days of great joy": this is how the Archbishop of Concepción, Fernando Chomali, describes the first days marked by the Pope's presence in Chile in an interview with ...
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  17 January 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - Pope Francis to Chilean Bishops: clericalism is the "enemy" of the mission Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - "Clericalism" is "one of the temptations that brings greater damage to the missionary dynamism" of the whole Church. It represents "a caricature of the vocation received", and is lurki ...
• 17 January 2018
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of the Rector of the Saint John Baptiste Interdiocesan Seminary in Fianarantsoa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 15, 2017, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev . Desiré Razafinirina, of the diocesan clergy of Toliara, as Re ...
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  17 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The frank and explicit political commitment of Christians: a prophetic voice in society Saoudè (Agenzia Fides) - "The Christians of the Democratic Republic of Congo, led by the Congolese Episcopate, will continue to surprise the world, and Africa in particular, for their explicit and frank political commit ...
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  17 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Not only Catholics but also other Christian voices criticize power Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The attempt to contrast the Catholic Church with other Christian communities in the close confrontation between the Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo and President Joseph ...
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  17 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Over 500 police officers monitor a Catholic College New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Over 500 policemen are monitoring St .Mary's College in the city of Vidisha, in Madhya Pradesh, to avert the attack by militants of the "Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad" (ABVP) extremist mo ...
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  16 January 2018
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - A missionary: the political transition is fictitious, a truly inclusive government is urgently needed Harare (Agenzia Fides) "In Zimbabwe everyone is holding their breath. We are trying to understand what will happen in the coming weeks and months. Nobody takes a position": says a missionary to Fides, who for security re ...
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  16 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cholera in Kinshasa: the commitment of health institutions and Caritas to combat the epidemic Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are over 50,000 cases of cholera registered during 2017 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Between 25 November and 28 December 2017 the capital Kinshasa counted 133 new infections, with ...
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  16 January 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - UN and Catholic Church committed to re-launching the Government-ELN peace talks Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has appealed to the Colombian government and ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional) to end "armed actions" and re-launch "serious ...
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  16 January 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - The first eco-socio-economically sustainable papal visit Santiago (Chile) - The visit of Pope Francis to Chile will be the first eco-socio-economically sustainable. The organizers have developed a precise strategy in this regard. Animated by the request of the Holy Father in L ...
• 15 January 2018
  ASIA/JAPAN - Appointment of the Rector of the interdiocesan Seminary "Japan Catholic Seminary" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Francis Xavier Hiroaki Nakano, of the diocesan clergy of Kagoshima, as Rector of ...