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  23 September 2017
  ASIA/JORDAN - Caritas Jordan convenes young people from around the world to the "Peace Forum" Madaba (Agenzia Fides) - The delegations of boys and girls, who are taking part in the final phase of the World Youth Forum for Peace in Jordan, organized by Caritas Jordan and hosted at the American University of Madaba ...
• 22 September 2017
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "College General" Major Seminary in Penang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 1, 2017, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Stanley Antoni of the diocesan clergy of Penang as Rector of the "Co ...
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  22 September 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Cathedral of Concepción occupied by the families of Mapuche Political Prisoners, Mgr. Chomali mediator Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday a group of protesters, family members of the Mapuche Political Prisoners (PPM), occupied the Cathedral of Concepción. Immediately after Archbishop Mgr. Fernando Chomali urged the ...
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  22 September 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Cardinal Filoni visits the places of the 2011 tsunami: "God has not forgotten you" Sendai (Agenzia Fides) - "God loves you, despite your suffering, he is not indifferent, he has not forgotten you". This is how Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, addr ...
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  22 September 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishop of Nsukka condemns the attack on a Mosque. Fears of independent reawakening Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "This unprecedented mindless destruction of a place of worship is not just abhorrent but totally unacceptable and should be condemned by all", is the strong condemnation expressed by His Exc. Mgr. ...
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  22 September 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Stop to extrajudicial executions, yes to human rights Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to defend democracy and human rights in the Philippines: democracy in the 'war against drugs' by President Duterte has caused thousands of extrajudicial killings, impunity, and t ...
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  21 September 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - More than 200 dead after powerful earthquake hits Mexico, one word and a gesture among Christians: solidarity Puebla (Agenzia Fides) - Civil society organizations, solidarity groups, Catholic communities are contributing to promptly reporting the areas most affected by the violent earthquake that hit the country on 19 September ...
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  21 September 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - "Anti-conversion law" in Jharkhand: will give rise to violence and religious polarization Ranchi (Agenzia Fides) - "Anti-conversion" laws, which in fact are instruments to restrict religious freedom, continue to exacerbate and polarise Indian society: says Jesuit Fr. Michael Kerketta, Indian theologian and pr ...
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  21 September 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Cardinal Filoni in Osaka: The Church is not a 'service agency' Osaka (Agenzia Fides) - The opportunity to recover momentum in the proclamation of the Gospel, in Japan and elsewhere, "does not rest in the methodologies put in place by ecclesial apparatus but in returning to experienc ...
• 21 September 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Apostolic Vicariate of Bomadi erected to Diocese and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, the Holy Father erected the Apostolic Vicariate of Bomadi (Nigeria) to Diocese, with the same denomination and territorial configuration, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan se ...
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  21 September 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "Arms embargo on the Burmese military to end its ethnic cleansing campaign against Rohingya Muslims" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – It is urgent to take immediate action to stop the Burma Armys campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people, including an arms embargo against Myanmar: this is what Christian Solidar ...
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  20 September 2017
  AMERICA - Child labor: 152 million victims, the Church asks to address the root problem New York (Agenzia Fides) - The new research carried out jointly by the International Labor Organization (OIT in Spanish) and by the Walk Free Fundation, in collaboration with the World Organization for Migration (WOM), r ...
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  20 September 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Massacre of Burundian refugees in the east: 34 dead and about a hundred injured Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 34 Burundian refugees were killed by security forces on September 16 in the refugee camp near the village of Kamanyola in the Plain of Ruzizi, South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic ...
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  20 September 2017
  AMERICA/ANTILLE - Critical situation and huge damage due to hurricane Irma: Bishops close to the population Port of Spain (Agenzia Fides) – To ascertain the damage caused by hurricanes, comfort the victims, and organize relief: is what the Catholic communities in the Antilles are doing. "Among the recent hurricanes that cont ...
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  20 September 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Cardinal Filoni: Hiroshima is the place where Christ renewed his sacrifice in the twentieth century Hiroshima (Agenzia Fides) - Hiroshima "is the place where Christ renewed his sacrifice in the twentieth century". And even for the Catholic Church, Hiroshima "today means a city of peace, in which God has not forgotten m ...