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  6 September 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops on the end of DACA: "A decision that is reprehensible and heartbreaking" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The US Episcopal Conference quickly responded to the Trump administration’s decision to put an end to a program implemented under President Barack Obama which aimed at protecting the so-cal ...
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  6 September 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Street children, a phenomenon that is passed on from father to son Durango (Agenzia Fides) - In the urban environments of the Country, there is a third generation of children and adolescents who are born in a street situation and who do not have a better life choice and do not know anot ...
• 6 September 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of the Rector of the Interdiocesan Major Seminary of Harare Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 1, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, , appointed rev. Andrew Lastborn Foto, of the diocesan clergy of Masvingo as Rector ...
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  6 September 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The government urges to publish the executive regulations of the law on the construction of churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian deputy Mohamed Fouad, a member of the Urban Planning Committee, in an appeal has urged Prime Minister Sherif Ismail to publish the executive regulations of the new law on the construction ...
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  6 September 2017
  OMNIS TERRA - NEWS ANALYSIS - The Pope's visit and the knots to unravel Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – It is a country in deep transformation, where the knots to unravel represent the many opportunities for change. The Colombia that welcomes Pope Francis (from September 6 to10) recently re-wrot ...
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  6 September 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Experiences of true Islamic Christian brotherhood in Catholic majority areas Lembata (Agenzia Fides) - In a country, Indonesia, with the most densely populated Muslim majority in the world, there are also small Christian and Catholic majority areas, especially in the central part of the vast Asia ...
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  6 September 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Coordinator of the Justice and Peace Commission, accused of food poisoning, released on bail Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Natalina Andrea Mabu, coordinator of the Justice and Peace Commission of Wau diocese, was released on bail. This was reported to Agenzia Fides by sources of the local Church, who for security reaso ...
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  5 September 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - One Health: Multidisciplinary health model to improve living conditions Filtu (Agenzia Fides) - In the Liben Zone, southern Ethiopia, the One Health Program of the Medical Cooperation Committee (CCM) was launched on 31 August. The two veteranians of the new One Health team have started mappi ...
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  5 September 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Over 17 million people affected by flooding, intervention of the Camillian Task Force Patna (Agenzia Fides) - The state of Bihar (North-East India) is again submerged by water. This is what the Camillian Task Force (CTF) India told Fides, reporting the deaths of 514 people and of 17.2 million affected in ...
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  5 September 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Heads of the Churches of Jerusalem: assault on the "Status Quo" in order to weaken the Christian presence in the Holy Land Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches of Jerusalem, "a systematic attempt to undermine the integrity of the Holy City" and "to weaken the Christian presence in the Holy City" ...
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  5 September 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A Bishop: "Rohingya, a matter of humanity. May both parties build peace" Mawlamyine (Agenzia Fides) - "In the ongoing crisis in the state of Rakhine, it is urgent to show humanity. We launch a humanity appeal to both sides: the military and Rohingya guerrillas. We must respect and build a fut ...
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  5 September 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Anti Balaka are not Christians", says Cardinal Nzapalainga Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - We want a united Central Africa, where Christians and Muslims live in peace. This is what Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui and Imam Oumar Kobine Layama said in an interview t ...
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  5 September 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A new facility for pregnant women from areas without medical facilities Araguaina (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Tocantinopolis, Mgr. Giovane Pereira de Melo, blessed the premises of the new House for pregnant women, babies and for women who have just given birth of the Don O ...
• 5 September 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A local NGO denounces a Pygmy massacre in the east of the Country, Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A Pygmy massacre was carried out in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to a statement from CEPADHO (a local NGO) to Agenzia Fides, on September 2, some ADF guerrillas (a ...
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  5 September 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishops: "We all ask for an attitude of dialogue for the international image of the country" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Guatemala, in a statement sent to Fides, deplore the current situation of the country and express "their concern for the political and ideological confrontation around the ...