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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï: the US move on Jerusalem "slap in the face of the Christians of the East". Islam-Christian summit tomorrow in Bkerkè Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The US Administration’s decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem "is a slap in the face of Palestinians, Christians, Muslims and all the Arabs". President Donald Trump' ...
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  13 December 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The drama of displaced people caused by Boko Haram Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - There are also two catechists among the people killed in an explosion that occurred on 11 December in Minawao camp in Pulka, in the north-east of Nigeria, which welcomes Nigerian refugees repatria ...
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  12 December 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishop Baez: "Paralyzed by fear, we are getting used to physical and moral violence" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "There is paralysis due to fear. There are people who are paralyzed by fear, unable to speak or express their outrage because of injustices and abuses of civil and military authorities", denounc ...
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  12 December 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence against Christians in Tamil Nadu Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - Four people, including the local leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are in custody in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, after the violence and vandalism committed in a Christian prayer hall on De ...
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  12 December 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - After the war years, the monastery of Deir Mar Musa flourishes again Nebek (Fides Agency) - There is still no news about the fate of the Roman Jesuit Paolo Dall'Oglio, kidnapped at the end of July 2013 while he was in Raqqa. But the monks and nuns of the monastic community of Khalil Allah ...
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  12 December 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Christian leaders: "Indonesia risks division" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment we are worried. Our unity as an Indonesian nation is in danger of breaking. Restlessness and worry have been felt more and more in recent years. There are those who, vaguely or sh ...
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  12 December 2017
  ASIA/JORDAN - The Heads of Churches: "silent procession" against the US decision on Jerusalem Amman (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops and Heads of Churches present in the Hascemite Kingdom of Jordan have invited their fellow citizens to take part in a silent procession with candles to publicly express the common disappro ...
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  12 December 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - The sound of bells to ask for the application of the New Year's Eve Agreements Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – To ring the bells to ask for the application of the New Year's Eve Agreements. This is the initiative taken by the association of deans of the parish priests of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa, c ...
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  12 December 2017
  EUROPE/ITALY - Education, health, reconstruction: the priorities of the Madian Community Turin (Agenzia Fides) - "Education, health, disability, reconstruction: this year we focused our efforts on these four fundamental points", said to Fides Fr. Antonio Menegon, president of the "Madian Orizzonti" Onlus org ...
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  12 December 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Indigenous theologian: "Ecology of hearts, according to Laudato Sì" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "The profound indigenous spirituality, in its harmonious relationship with all creation, sees in the care of the common home a responsibility for future generations.The bond of relationship b ...
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  11 December 2017
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - "The new frontier of the mission is the dialogue of life" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The difficulties and inner conquests of Catholics in Afghanistan are the mirror of those experienced by the communities in our Western world. Obliged to recover the essential of Christian ...
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  11 December 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Campaign against gender violence promoted by women in the Country Karthoum (Agenzia Fides) - Sudanese women rights centres launched the Women's Initiative and Building Trust campaign to combat violence against women, against the backdrop of activities against tea sellers in Khartoum. T ...
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  11 December 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christians celebrate the feast of Mar Behnam, in the shrine devastated by jihadists Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 10 December hundreds of Iraqi Christians were able to take part in the celebrations for the feast of Mar Behnam (San Behnam) at the Shrine-Monastery where the relics of the Saint ar ...
• 11 December 2017
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Resignation of the Auxiliary of Hwalien Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Holy Father accepted the resignation of His Exc. Mgr. John Baptist Tseng Chien-Tsi, titular Bishop of Sululi, from the office of auxiliary Bishop of the diocese of Hwalien (Taiwan ...
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  11 December 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Massacre of the Blue Helmits. Was the aim to hit the UN mission carried out in order to force it to withdraw? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is difficult to attribute the attack to a specific group because there is very little news at the moment", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Loris Cattani, Xaverian missionary and member of the Pea ...