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  18 September 2017
  EUROPE/POLAND - How to engage and involve young people in the mission Częstochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "The magnet that attracts young people towards a missionary group is the opportunity to do something good for another person, especially for a person of the same age, in missionary countrie ...
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  18 September 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian lawyer: "Sharoon Masih killed for a glass of water, like Asia Bibi" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "He was called with the nickname of 'choora', a pejorative which is used to define Pakistani Christians, identifying them with the caste of 'street cleaners' or 'untouchables'. He was beaten to d ...
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  18 September 2017
  AFRICA/TOGO - The story of a missionary: "The new leper is AIDS that also infects many children" Kolowaré (Agenzia Fides) - "We assist more than 800 people in antiretroviral therapy, of whom 50 are children. AIDS, like leprosy, creates discrimination and often the family’s rejection because it is considered a sha ...
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  18 September 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assad to young Syriac-Orthodox Christians in Syria are not hosts or "migratory birds" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Syria are "no guests or migratory birds". They "are part of the origin of the nation, and without them there is no pluralistic Syria". This is what Syrian President Bashar Assad s ...
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  18 September 2017
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishops: "Let’s go back to the 1992 Constitution to resolve the crisis" Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "Constitutional reforms are of particular importance, without which it is impossible to bring peace and social cohesion in our country", write the Bishops of Togo in the pastoral letter on the Cou ...
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  18 September 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Marawi, vicar released and mosque regained: the siege in its final stage Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "We are happy for the release of Fr. Chito. We thank the Lord and all those who in the world prayed for his release. We praise the efforts of the Filipino army who are doing their utmost to prote ...
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  18 September 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Cardinal Filoni addresses Seminarians: to announce the Gospel is a great act of charity Fukuoka (Agenzia Fides) – The announcement of the Gospel “is a gift of love for our brothers and sisters in search of light. It is a pledge of the “extraordinary and generous gift of redeeming grace and mercy”, w ...
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  16 September 2017
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Caritas busy assisting Rohingya refugees ‘totally dependent on aid’ Dacca (Agenzia Fides) –Caritas Bangladesh is mobilised to offer humanitarian assistance in Rakhine state to 14,000 Rohingya refugees families fleeing Myanmar, Fides learns from Catholic lay man Francio Atul Sarker, Ca ...
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  16 September 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS / OMNIS TERRA - India, nine years after the anti-Chrstian violence, where is justice? Christians in Orissa state well remember the 2008 massacres and commemorate their martyrs. But public institutions and judiciary appear to be on the run with impunity for those responsible and scarce compensation for tho ...
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  16 September 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Pastoral visit to Japan by Cardinal Filoni starts tomorrow Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow Sunday 17 September, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, will arrive in Japan for a pastoral visit which will conclude on 26 Septem ...
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  16 September 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Marawi crisis: “amidst suffering we continue to hope”, Bishop says Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “The situation in Marawi continues to be critical, but we hope for a positive outcome. News is encouraging, we know our hostage Catholics are alive and that the army has guaranteed they will ...
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  16 September 2017
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Inclusive dialogue only path to peace: bishops make new appeal to overcome political crisis Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “Inclusive dialogue is the only path to peace” the Bishops of Burundi say in a message issued at the end of a Plenary Assembly and read out in all parishes at every Mass on Sunday 10 Septe ...
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  15 September 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Appeal by Maronite Bishop Matar to stop installation of high tension cables ignored Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – So far public requests by Maronite Archbishop Boulos Matar of Beirut addressed to the highest institutional charges in Lebanon to reconsider a project for the installation of high tension ...
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  15 September 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - New deadlock in process to elect Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – The process to elect a new Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople is again at a stage of stalemate, due to episodes of silent boycotting on the part of Turkish institutions as well as pers ...
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  15 September 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy on WhatsApp: Christian youth condemned to death Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – A Christian youth accused of blasphemy has been condemned to death by a high court in Gujarat, Pakistani Punjab. Nadeem James, aged 24, living in the Christian community of Yaqoobabad, was ac ...