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  27 July 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - After tensions on the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Al Azhar convenes an "International Conference" on Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The University of Al Azhar, the most prominent academic-theological center of Sunni Islam, announced the decision to convene an International Conference on Jerusalem by September next year to disc ...
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  27 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Opposition launches operation "Dead City" and civil disobedience to send Kabila away Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Two days of "dead city" throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo to "send" President Joseph Kabila away have been announced by the opposition which recognizes itself in the "Rassemblement". ...
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  27 July 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Archbishop of Kumasi: "Ghanaians involved in illegal mining are the wicked citizens who seek the fall of the country" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Ghanaians involved in illegal mining are the wicked citizens who seek the fall of the country over their personal interest, denounced His Esc. Mgr. Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye, Archbishop of Kumasi ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A bomb explodes at the entrance of the Episcopal Conference, appeal for calm Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 25, a bomb exploded at the main entrance of the Mexican Episcopal Conference headquarters in Mexico City around 1.50 am, causing some damage but no one was injured. "We appreciate t ...
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  26 July 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church launches an awareness campaign against female genital mutilation Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Orthodox Coptic Church is about to launch an intense awareness campaign among its faithful against the practice of female genital mutilation, which continues to be widespread among Coptic Chri ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - In debt with childhood: Dominican children are deprived of their rights Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 13% of minors in the Dominican Republic are forced to work, about 15% do not go to school and 28% are married or cohabit. These alarming data have been reported by the "In Debt with ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Goic Karmelic's reflection: For a democracy based on values Rancagua (Agenzia Fides) - "The debate in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies last week, on the abolition of abortion, saddened me with regards to democracy based on values which since my childhood I was taught to nurture ...
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  26 July 2017
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Start-ups against counterfeit medicines Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - It is estimated that about 10% of the medicines in the world are counterfeit, a figure equivalent to 85 billion euros, according to the Institute for Research Against Counterfeit Medicines in Pari ...
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  26 July 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Justice and Peace: "No to the law that permits open grazing" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent activities of herdsmen in our country causing violence and destruction of farm lands and properties have become an issue that we must not neglect, especially in the Middle Belt", says ...
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  26 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Pressure continues to involve Christians in the referendum on independence in Kurdistan Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Political leaders of the autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan continue to manifest in various ways the intention to involve Christians in support of the referendum convened for next September 25 i ...
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  25 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishops on the decriminalization of abortion: With more force than before, we promote the value of life Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Following the approval of the draft law by the Chilean Senate that decriminalizes the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in three particular cases, "there will be laws on euthanasia and so on" ...
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  25 July 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Still tensions at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Fr.Neuhaus: when sacred things are touched, rage always explodes Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli government has ordered the removal of installed metal detectors to control the entry at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. But it is still early to understand whether this m ...
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  25 July 2017
  EUROPE/FRANCE - First Anniversary of Fr. Hamel’s death Rouen (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Jacques Hamel, 84, had his throat cut while he was celebrating mass in Saint Etienne du Rouvray church, Normandy (France) on the morning of July 26, 2016. Two men entered the church during t ...
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  25 July 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Detroit judge blocks deportation of Iraqi immigrants for 90 days Detroit (Agenzia Fides) – A judge Mark Goldsmith in Detroit has temporarily halted the deportations of Chaldean Christians and other Iraqi immigrants ordered last June by virtue of the new immigration rules implemented ...
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  25 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appeal of the secular clergy of Butembo-Béni: "Release our confreres without condition" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply appalled by the abduction of our confreres and demand their release without conditions". This is how the secular priests of the diocese of Butembo-Béni addressed the kidnappers ...