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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 ...
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  29 December 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Over 3,000 cases of violence against women in Puno region Puno (Agenzia Fides) - The National Program Against Family and Sexual Violence of the Ministry of Women has released a report informing that up to the month of November, 3 thousand 327 cases of violence were recorded in ...
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  29 December 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The Salvadoran Church suffers due to the drama of many emigrants: appeal to the United States for the TPS San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "We strongly urge the president of the United States (Donald Trump), the Congress and all the authorities of that great nation, that on this significant date of Christmas they should see to ...
• 29 December 2017
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Resignation of the Archbishop of Rabat and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 29, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Rabat (Morocco), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Vincent Landel, S.C.I. The Pope appoin ...
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  29 December 2017
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - "I hope President Weah inspires young people to commit themselves to changing the situation" Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people wanted a change and that is why they voted Weah, but the hope for a short-term improvement is scarce because the national economy is in pieces", says to Agenzia Fides Sister Barba ...
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  29 December 2017
  ASIA/ISRAEL - President Rivlin to Churches: our sovereignty over Jerusalem guarantees religious freedom for all Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The sovereignty of the State of Israel over Jerusalem, recognized by the US Administration with a one-sided choice rejected by a very large majority by the UN, "will never compromise the freed ...
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  29 December 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Massacre in front of a Coptic church. Bishop Antonios Mina: "they want to eliminate our smiles during the Christmas holidays" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - An armed assault on the church of Mar Mina, carried out in the Helwan City district on the capital’s southern outskirts, by at least two terrorists on the morning of Friday 29 December, caused s ...
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  28 December 2017
  VATICAN - Missionaries killed in 2017 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2017, 23 Catholic pastoral care workers were killed worldwide: 13 priests, 1 religious brother, 1 religious sister, 8 lay persons. For the eighth consecutive year, the place mo ...
• 28 December 2017
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Arusha and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 27, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Arusha (Tanzania), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Josaphat Louis Lebulu. ...
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  28 December 2017
  EUROPE/GERMANY - "Star Singers" collection 2018: "Together against child labor" Aachen (Fides) - More than 2,600 "Star Singers" (Sternsinger) of the Holy Childhood Association in Germany will participate at the official inauguration of their 60th Annual Campaign in Trier (Germany) on Friday, Decembe ...
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  28 December 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Peru's President pardons Alberto Fujimori. Heated protests in the country, even for the Bishops it is inappropriate Lima (Agenzia Fides) – Disappointment, in addition to political confusion, is the climate that reigns in Peru after President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardons ex-president Alberto Fujimori condemned and in prison for "cri ...
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  28 December 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Protest of bells: justice calls its initiator, Fr. Tshomba Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Senior priest of Kinshasa Father Vincent Tshomba appeared before a court on December 27 in the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over charges relating to a call he made to ring th ...