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  14 December 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Court rules on Chiapas: peace on the horizon, humanitarian emergency remains San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - Peace is much closer in Chiapas. Yesterday afternoon the Agricultural Court issued a final decision on the process for the conflict of territorial boundaries between the munic ...
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  14 December 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Summit in Bkerké: Christian and Muslim leaders united in "no" to US choices on Jerusalem Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Every unilateral attempt to impose Jerusalem as the exclusive capital of the State of Israel represents an "unjust" act and contrary to all international pronouncements concerning the profile of ...
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  14 December 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - "Mali is the epicenter of jihadist groups that rage in Sahel" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation in different areas of Mali has been a concern for several months", says Fr. Edmond Dembele, General Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Mali, to Agenzia Fides, commen ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian government praises the service of the Church to the poor New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian government has praised the service rendered by the Catholic Church towards the poor, the marginalized and the needy in India. As Fides learns, on December 12 Indian Vice President V ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Violation of human rights on the indigenous of Papua Manokwari (Agenzia Fides) - A pastoral delegation composed of three members of the Asian Christian Conference (ACC) recently concluded a visit to the Indonesian province of West Papua, listening to stories about serious ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - A Muslim Prime Minister in a nation with a Catholic majority Dili (Agenzia Fides) - Although it is going through a turbulent political phase and its newborn government is in difficulty, Mari Bin Amudi Alkatiri is a Muslim Prime Minister who leads a country with a large Catholic ma ...
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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 ...