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  5 January 2018
  AMERICA - In Chile and Peru, private meetings of indigenous representatives with the Pope Temuco (Chile) - In the next visit to Chile and Peru (January 15 to 21), on two occasions the Pope will have lunch, in private, with a small group of representatives of the indigenous peoples, historically persecuted, di ...
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  5 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new year in the sign of dialogue Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh religious leaders who smile, embrace each other, pray together for peace, hope for harmonious coexistence in society, commit themselves against all forms of viol ...
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  5 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - 5 dead, 134 churches surrounded, 6 priests arrested; is the provisional report of the 31 December repression Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nunciature in the Democratic Republic of Congo has published a first, yet provisional, report of the violence suffered by the Church following the brutal repression of the march o ...
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  5 January 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - The "iron church" reopens. The restoration of churches and synagogues become part of Erdogan's "geopolitics" Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The historic Bulgarian church of Sveti Stefan (Saint Steven), overlooking the Golden Horn, is preparing to reopen its doors to the faithful and visitors after extensive restoration work, which ...
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  5 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindus who read the Bible threatened by extremists Bareilly (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 70 faithful Hindus in Uttar Pradesh, who in the past 4 years gather to read the Bible, have been threatened and targeted by Hindu extremist groups such as Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) ...
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  5 January 2018
  VATICAN - Missionary Childhood Day: "Children are the present of the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Children are our present rather than the future: it is in our care to make them experience the joy, prayer and sharing even in difficulties. And with a truly universal spirit: I would like ...
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  5 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Monsengwo: "Agreements must be respected" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The victims of December 31 died because they reminded us that pacta sunt servanda" said Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa during a mass celebrated in the cathedral of ...
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  4 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu radicals attack a Catholic college Vidisha (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of police deployment was done at the St. Mary's Post Graduate College in Vidisha, Sagar Diocese in Madhya Pradesh, central India as Hindu right-wing groups threaten to perform Hindu ri ...
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  4 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Attacks against Indian Christians during the Christmas season New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Christian communities in India suffered at least 23 attacks for religious reasons during the Christmas period, which have instilled a feeling of fear and have hurt the faithful. This is what l ...
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  4 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Catholic laity promise new protests Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We can be proud for having participated in the protest on 31 December 2017. We can not backtrack anymore, our children look at us, the whole world looks at us, our conscience asks us", says in ...
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  4 January 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Small Christian orphans converted to Islam Gode (Agenzia Fides) - About 30 Christian (Orthodox) children have already been forcibly converted to Islam. And the danger threatens about 120 children, adolescents and young Christians in 12 reception centers for orpha ...
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  4 January 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Islamic University of al Azhar convenes Muslims and Christians to discuss the "Jerusalem issue" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The University of Al Azhar, the main academic-theological center of Sunni Islam, is preparing to host an international conference on Jerusalem, to confront "institutions and important bodies" arou ...
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  4 January 2018
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Fighting child and maternal mortality: a service to the country Myitkina (Agenzia Fides) - "To bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth": with this spirit the Catholic-inspired "St. Bryce Missions" operates in one of Myanmar's conflict areas, that of Kachin state. The area, with a C ...
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  4 January 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 2017 "Annus horribilis" for the Amazon. The denunciation of Cardinal Hummes and Bishop Erwin Krautler Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – The Amazon has been transformed into a land without law or without the rule of law, at the mercy of the arrogance of those who have money and power, and where the political, judiciary and law ...
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  29 December 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - After 50 years, the first public Christmas Festival in Yangon Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian communities in Myanmar, Catholic and Protestant, have publicly celebrated Christmas in the streets of Yangon, for the first time in 50 years: as Agenzia Fides learns, in the past Ch ...