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  10 August 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Massacre in Bangassou denounced by the Pope: local Bishop condemns ‘trigger-happy’ UN troops Bangui (Agenzia Fides)- “The massacre in Central Africa Republic in Gambo, a village 70 km from Bangassou, was even mentioned yesterday by the Holy Father” the local Bishop Juan José Aguirre of Muños, Bangassou, un ...
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  10 August 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Integration, equality and respect: Ethiopian social circus changes the lives of the country’s children A Coruña (Agenzia Fides) – Circus, education and social assistance are the values of the Fekat Circus, an Ethiopian group which aims at improving the lives of the children in that country . The initiative is for socia ...
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  10 August 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops: “No nuclear power station in Rio Negro” Neuquen (Agenzia Fides) – During a meeting chaired by Bishop emeritus Virginio Bressanelli diocesan Administrator of Neuquén, the highest Catholic authorities in Patagonia (Argentina) rejected a plan announced by the ...
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  10 August 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - “No to violence”: religious leaders appeal while waiting for official results Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) “No to violence; legal paths must be taken to resolve disputes”. This is the sense of an appeal made by the religious leaders of Kenya, meeting at the Multi-Sectional Forum, awaiting the issu ...
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  9 August 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Outgoing President Kenyatta leads after elections yesterday but the Opposition denounces vote-rigging Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- Outgoing president Uhuru Kenyatta leads in the partial count after yesterday’s 8 August vote for presidential and political elections in Kenya (see Fides 8/8/2017). The result however is reject ...
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  9 August 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - More than 60 per cent of Guatemalans live in poverty Ciudad de Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) - The scenario of inequality, racism, poverty and undernourishment in Guatemala is evident. Of the at least 16 million people living in this Latin American country, 60% suffer conditi ...
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  9 August 2017
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Itinerant theatre to alleviate trauma of Gaza’s children Gaza (Agenzia Fides) – A group of young people in Gaza has decided to take the only Itinerant theatre in Palestine to perform in orphanages, hospitals and day assistance centres, to alleviate the psychological stress a ...
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  8 August 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: respect human rights and lands Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – August 9 is International Day of the World’s Indigenous. The world has over 370 million indigenous peoples in 70 different countries, speaking 5,000 languages (75% of which are known) and a ...
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  8 August 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Promote real integration for migrants in Chile” demands Cardinal Ezzati Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – "It is important to accept migrants, but this is not sufficient, we must integrate with them, and this means making laws to foster genuine integration with relative respect for human rights", ...
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  8 August 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Polling stations open in Kenya to elect new President; local Church in front line for a peaceful vote Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- Polling stations open in Kenya today, 8 August, for presidential and political elections. Some 19.6 million voters are called to elect a new parliament and a Head of State and to choose between o ...
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  8 August 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Young Asian Catholics: “We will face the challenges of the millennium to spread the Gospel” Yogyakarta (Agenzia Fides)- “We face problems and challenges in living our Catholic faith and live in a globalized era that impacts our life. Rapid technological advances give rise to consumerism, addictions, and loss ...
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  7 August 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Kurd leader Barzani writes to Christians in Kurdistan: in independent Kurdistan you will be safe at last Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – Now that the nation of Kurdistan “is taking steps towards independence, the needs and the rights of our Christian brothers and sisters will be protected at all levels, and so brotherhood and s ...
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  7 August 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Funds assigned for the Catholic Church in Haiti Washington (Agenzia Fides) – The United States Catholic Bishops Conference (USCCB), by means of its Commission for the Latin American Churches has assigned a sum of almost 6 million dollars: 4 to support the pastoral ...
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  7 August 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTORICO - Collecting shoes to enable children in Haiti to go to school San Juan (Agenzia Fides) – The We All Care, Inc non-profit organization has launched an appeal to people in Puerto Rico to get together to collect shoes for needy children aged 3 to 9 in Haiti. On that Caribbean islan ...
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  7 August 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Drugs and crime behind massacre in a church at Ozubulu Lagos (Agenzia Fides)- Yesterday Sunday 6 August 12 persons died and more than 20 were wounded in a shooting attack inside the church of Saint Philip at Ozubulu State of Anambra, in the south of Nigeria. Local Fides sou ...