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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 ...
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  15 January 2018
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Caritas Senegal: "Let us give back hope to young people; migration is not the only way for the future" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Give back hope to our young people". This is Caritas Senegal's goal during its 54th Ordinary Plenary Assembly, which opened in Thiès on January 13th and ended on Sunday 14th. In his opening add ...
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  15 January 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - A nun: "To be artisans of peace, thanks to the courage that comes from faith" Kolowaré (Agenzia Fides) - "The year that just ended was marked by severe moments of tension due to the socio-political crisis in the whole country and in particular our central region of Togo. It is not easy, in the fa ...
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  15 January 2018
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Christians committed to promoting religious harmony Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Sri Lanka is strongly committed to promoting religious harmony and to building a peaceful and reconciled society, after the wounds of the civil war. Christians try to be present in ...
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  15 January 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - Puerto Maldonado, a historic meeting that will give more visibility to the natives of the Amazon Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has always had special attention and affection towards the Amazon and its inhabitants, especially the native peoples. The encyclical Laudato Sì or the creation of the Pana ...
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  15 January 2018
  ASIA/IRAN - Confirmation of the ordination of a deaconess in the Armenian Apostolic Church Teheran (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-four year old Ani-Kristi Manvelian, an anesthesiologist by profession, was ordained as deaconess in the Cathedral of St. Gregory the Illuminator of Tehran last September by Archbishop Seb ...
• 12 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Interdiocesan Seminary "Papal Seminary" in Poona Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 July 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Bhausaheb Sansare of the Society of Jesus (SJ) as Rector of the Interd ...
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  12 January 2018
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Clinics and schools closed: the regime prohibits Christian social activities Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - "In Eritrea, the regime has begun to persecute religious confessions and, in particular, the Catholic Church. The objective is clear: to try to prevent its influence on society: not by prohibitin ...
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  12 January 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - 30 years after the last visit of a Pope in the Country Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Peru is a country where the arrival of Pope Francis generates great expectation for its very high religiosity. This is something that the Pope will be able to verify, and I think he will be very h ...
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  12 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishops: the government must approve policies for the protection of children Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The whole nation cries for this sin. It is a sin that makes us feel ashamed. Let us try to find the courage to take all the necessary measures and to protect the lives of our children in every p ...
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  12 January 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - Jesuit Fernando Montes: the strategy of tension that obscures the "Mapuche issue" Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) - The episodes of violence recorded in recent years and connected to the "Mapuche issue", including the fires of Catholic and Evangelical churches, have the effect of sabotaging every se ...
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  12 January 2018
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Tunisia has won the bet for democracy but not for economic development" Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "There is an economic problem that then becomes social", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Jawad Alamat, parish priest of Carthage and general secretary of Catholic schools, commenting on the recent prote ...