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  25 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Child sexual abuse: Pakistan breaks the silence Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Pakistan has finally broken a taboo, at least for now. This comes after the denunciation of sexual abuse, violence, rape and murder against thousands of minors. Here there is a culture of silenc ...
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  25 January 2018
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Barnabite in Kabul: "There are no glimmers of light in Afghanistan" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "The latest attacks are terrible. Being locked up in the Embassy, I do not have first-hand news, I know what is said through mass media. I believe that Afghanistan is at the center of power games ...
• 25 January 2018
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO and NIGER - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Isidore Nombré Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 January 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Isidore Nombré, of the diocesan clergy of Koudougou (Burki ...
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  25 January 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros visits al Ahram public newspaper: Coptic marginalization is coming to an end Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Copts of Egypt have suffered growing political and social marginalization since the 1950s. But this trend has actually reversed in the last seven years. And many unpublished facts - such as th ...
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  25 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Fr. Robert Masinda is free", says the Vicar General of Butembo-Beni to Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Fr. Robert Masinda is free and on his way to reach the Bishopric", says to Agenzia Fides Mgr. Laurent Sondirya (and not Emmanuel Mwanapenzi Nyonyu as erroneously reported yesterday), Vicar Gen ...
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  25 January 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Celam supports the Bishops accused of "hate crimes" by President Maduro Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Solidarity with the Venezuelan people and their Pastors, two of them threatened by the President of the Republic Nicolás Maduro following their heartfelt homilies of denunciation. This is what t ...
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  25 January 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church works tirelessly for the population hit by the earthquake Chiapas (Agencia Fides) - "Thanks to the work of Father Romulo Sanchez, parish priest of the Parish of St. John the Baptist in Ocozocoautla, in the diocese of Tuxtla Gutierrez, in Chiapas, the San Juan 'Vivienda 6x4' pro ...
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  25 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "Where the police behaved professionally, there were no incidents" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Where the police behaved professionally there were no incidents". This was underlined by Donatien Nshole, Secretary General of CENCO (National Episcopal Conference of Congo), presenting a repo ...
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  24 January 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - A nun: "Israel pays Rwanda to welcome African immigrants" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "Israel has found a drastic way to solve the problem of African immigrants: it will pay Rwanda to welcome them. Some use the verb 'sell' to describe the policy launched by Benjamin Netanyahu� ...
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  24 January 2018
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Archbishop Goh to catechists: "The important thing is your encounter with Christ" Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - Catechumens, children, students of a catechism class "should see Christ in their catechists. The important thing is your encounter with Christ": as Agenzia Fides learns, this was a message Arc ...
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  24 January 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - President Widodo to Catholic students: "Be agents of peace and unity" Palembang (Agenzia Fides) - Working for peace, helping to maintain the unity of Indonesia, working together with all other citizens for national development and the common good: this is what Indonesian President Joko Wid ...
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  24 January 2018
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Apostolic Nuncio: it is positive to tackle corruption, even the most serious Quito (Agenzia Fides) - It is the responsibility of every citizen "to know and get information regarding referendum questions"; "the vote will lead society on the road to freedom, democracy and the independence of powers ...
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  24 January 2018
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Orthodox Patriarch to diplomats in Damascus: help Syria regain peace Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the beginning of the new year Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Mar Ignatius Aphrem II, organized a reception to which all the diplomats accredited to the Arab Republic o ...
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  24 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Fr. Robert Masinda is still a prisoner but we know he is alive" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Fr. Robert Masinda is still a prisoner, but we know he is alive and we hope he will be released soon", says to Agenzia Fides Mgr. Laurent Sondirya, Vicar General of the diocese of Butembo-Beni ...
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  24 January 2018
  AMERICA - The Inter-American Court of Human Rights cannot impose the law on same-sex unions to member countries San José (Agenzia Fides) - The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CIDH), the judicial body of the Organization of American States (OEA), is putting pressure on the 23 member countries so they recognize same-sex union ...