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  24 January 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - Sport as a driving force for street children in Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - In the urban area of Nairobi, there are about 60 thousand street children and about 22 thousand under-age refugees. Thanks to the development of a project that uses sport as a driving force, we ...
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  23 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Church leaders withdraw their complaint against Hindu extremists New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Church leaders in Madhya Pradesh, central India, have withdrawn a legal appeal filed in recent days at Madhya Pradesh High Court against a group of radical Hindu groups who had tried to enter ...
• 23 January 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Bonaventure Luchidio Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 16, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Bonaventure Luchidio, of the diocesan clergy of Kakamega, as Nati ...
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  23 January 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Parliament rejects the memorandum of the US resolution on discrimination against Copts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian parliament's foreign affairs committee has finished drafting a response to a memorandum on "Coptic issues" in Egypt, that was made public on December 21 by six members of the US Cong ...
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  23 January 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Women, in black, take to the streets to demonstrate against the President Lome (Agenzia Fides) - Togo women are at the forefront of the popular protest against the power of President Faure Gnassingbe. Since September, a coalition of 14 political parties has held almost weekly marches, where th ...
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  23 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Protests led by the Catholic laity will continue"; the Nunciature: "fatal bullets fired against demonstrators" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The government is trying to put the blame on the organizers regarding the violent protest march held on Sunday", report Church sources of the Democratic Republic of Congo to Agenzia Fides, wh ...
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  23 January 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Pope's visit leaves "an appeal to hope and unity" Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - An invitation to hope, to "continue to rise again after the collapse", not to stop believing in the transforming power of God the Father, to "work for peace". And to say "no to the vio ...
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  23 January 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Tentorio’s murder, the missionaries: "We hope the truth will come to light" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "We are still in a preliminary phase, it is already the third time that the results of an investigation into the murder of Father Fausto Tentorio are presented, but in the past they were not enou ...
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  22 January 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops’ spokesman: "Pope Francis enhanced local religious traditions" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - An invitation to return to their cultural and family roots and to live faith with joy, as "grateful servants": this is, in short, the message that Pope Francis left to Peru. This is what Jesuit, Fr ...
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  22 January 2018
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Christians are discriminated against in society but play a valuable role Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Bangladesh, a small minority in a country with a Muslim majority, often face discrimination: says to Agenzia Fides Catholic priest Fr. David Bipul Das, of the Church of Our Lady of G ...
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  22 January 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Catholic Bishops to Israeli authorities: expulsion exposes Eritrean and Sudanese refugees to dangers and wars Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli authorities are imposing on Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers to choose between prison or exodus in other Countries, and this political choice risks exposing "so many lives to d ...
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  22 January 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - The proto-Cathedral of Marsabit attacked Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The proto-Cathedral of Our Lady of Consolata in Marsabit, a Catholic church in northern Kenya, on the border with Ethiopia, was sacked during violent demonstrations for the arrest of a Muslim pr ...
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  22 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Yet another Christian victim among sewer laborers Karachi (Agenzia Fides) – A Christian, Shehzad Mansha Masih was a resident in Korangi, Karachi. Like so many Pakistani Christians, he worked for the sewage line but was not provided any security measure for his safety ...
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  22 January 2018
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Redemptorists write to Trump: "His words on poor Countries are disparaging" San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "We turn to you, Mr. President, for the purpose of commenting on the negative impact of your disparaging words on Thursday 11 January 2018 in the presence of some members of the EUA Congress de ...
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  22 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violent repression of demonstrations: at least 6 dead, a dozen priests kidnapped Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - At least 10 priests and two nuns were kidnapped by the police in the clashes which occurred yesterday, Sunday, January 21, in several cities of the Democratic Republic of Congo, due to the viol ...