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  6 October 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Vice President poisoned. Tension increases. The Bishops: "No to violence" Harare (Agenzia Fides) – Tension increases in Zimbabwe after the announcement that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was poisoned. Mnangagwa fell ill in August and was hospitalized in South Africa, where doctors said h ...
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  5 October 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The possibility of becoming a candidate again: "A serious damage to democracy" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "A serious damage to democracy" is how the Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB) defined the decision of the Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal to accept the request of the Movement for Socialism ...
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  5 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Francis greets the Egyptian delegation who went to the Vatican to promote the "The Path of the Holy Family" Rome (Agenzia Fides) – During the General Audience on Wednesday, October 4, Pope Francis welcomed the large Egyptian delegation who are in Rome to promote pilgrimages along the "The Path of Holy Family", the itinerary ...
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  5 October 2017
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The life of seafarers and fishermen between forced labor and human trafficking Kaohsiung City (Fides Service) - The XXIV World Congress of the Apostleship of the Sea (AoS), on the theme: 'Caught in the net' is being held in Kaohsiung City until October 7. The chosen theme expresses the concern of ...
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  5 October 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Cardinal Filoni: The future of the mission is "the Gospel from Japanese to Japanese" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The future of the Christian faith in Japan is linked to the proclamation of the Gospel from Japanese to Japanese. It is important that the Japanese, 500 years after the first evangelizatio ...
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  5 October 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Young people in view of the Synod, the Bishops: "Be Modern prophets" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Be modern prophets, taking the proclamation of the Gospel seriously, to all those young people who are far from God, who pursue a wrong path and find themselves doing wrong": as Fides learns, t ...
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  5 October 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Christian churches targeted by jihadists: "A new and disturbing development" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The jihadists have started to target Christian communities and it is a worrying development", says to Fides Fr. Edmond Dembelé, Secretary General of the Bishops' Conference of Mali, who reports ...
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  5 October 2017
  EUROPE/GERMANY - How can we recognize "the migrant God" today in the history of humanity? Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - In our multicultural societies the migrant is often relegated to the "poor/needy" category in the material and cultural sense or seen as an "enemy". This is how concrete attitudes are born suc ...
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  4 October 2017
  ASIA/THAILAND - Preparations for the funeral of 'the Greatest King of Siamese History' Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Over 500 officers of the Thai Navy have participated in the preparations for the Royal Cremation of the revered late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died last October at the age of 88. The funeral ...
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  4 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church establishes the "Sant'Atanasio Center for Doctrine" to counteract the spread of erroneous doctrines Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Orthodox Coptic Patriarchate has established an Integrated Center for Doctrinal Studies in the suburban district of Maadi, south of Cairo, which is added to the already existing Institute of S ...
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  4 October 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Priest killed in Rionegro, the second in Colombia in 2017 Antioquia (Agenzia Fides) - Father Abelardo Antonio Muñoz Sánchez, 41 years old was killed during an attempted theft, in San Antonio neighborhood in Rionegro, on the main road leading to La Ceja. According to informat ...
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  4 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Mgr. Kariuki Njiru: "No to political controversy on anti-tetanus vaccines. They are safe because controlled" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Anti-tetanus vaccines are controlled and are safe", said His Exc. Mgr. Paul Kariuki Njiru, Bishop of Embu and President of the Bishops' Commission for the Pastoral Care of Kenya, speaking at th ...
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  4 October 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "It is urgent to stop the violence on the Rohingya" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "It is urgent to stop any form of violence on the Rohingya population. It is dramatic that, with fighters coming from abroad, a new conflict front in the state of Rakhine is being opened. The gov ...
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  4 October 2017
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - The annual Synods of the Chaldean Church and the Syro-Catholic Church have begun Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - The annual Synods of the Syro-Catholic Church and the Chaldean Church have begun almost simultaneously. The Syro-Catholic Bishops, under the presidency of Patriarch Ignatius Youssif III Younan ...
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  3 October 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Religious minorities under attack: it is urgent to repeal the blasphemy law Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christian Washaal Masih and his colleague Bhola Ram of Hindu religion, two humble workers, employed in the town of Behawalnagar, in the South of Pakistani Punjab, were arrested for blasphemy, wit ...