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  25 July 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Amnesty International: "Thousands of women, girls and men victims of war rapes" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Large-scale sexual violence were carried out against thousands of women, girls and men, with victims selected on the basis of their ethnicity. This is what Amnesty International denounces in a repo ...
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  24 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Elizondo on the destruction of a chapel:Security and respect of everybody’s rights Cancun (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of the Prelature of Cancún-Chetumal, Mgr. Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cárdenas, in his homily yesterday said that media sometimes report that evil is winning because bad news is what is m ...
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  24 July 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Coloring horror: Children's drawings reflect the violence they live Sacoj Mixco (Agenzia Fides) - Delinquency, drugs, family problems and daily terror: This is how the children in their fifth and sixth year who go to the Primary School of the Educational Center Dr Bloem, in Sacoj Mixco, ...
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  24 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - 15 statues of Our Lady of Lourdes put in the villages of the Nineveh Plain instead of those destroyed by jihadists Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – On July 20-25, in many villages and towns of the Nineveh Plain once inhabited mostly by Christians, 15 statues of the Virgin of Lourdres will be put in place of those removed and destroyed by ...
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  24 July 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Bishop reports: "Half the population of Bangassou has fled". The Cathedral has been attacked Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Half of the population of Bangassou has fled, taking refuge in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. The clashes have been going on for days", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Juan Jo ...
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  24 July 2017
  ASIA/SIRIA - Christian professor killed in Hassakè, Syrian city controlled by Kurdish militias of the PYD Hassakè (Agenzia Fides) - The lifeless body of Basil Isaac, a Christian professor from the Khabur valley, who was killed with a bullet to his head, was found in a village eight kilometers east of the Syrian city of Hass ...
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  24 July 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Thirty years ago the martyrdom of a Spanish Bishop and a Colombian nun who defended the natives Quito (Agenzia Fides) - On July 21, 1987, what seemed like a friendly encounter in a remote Ecuadoran jungle (today is the province of Orellana) turned out to be the terrible killing of a Spanish Bishop and a Colombian r ...
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  24 July 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - One of the Countries with the greatest income and rights inequality Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - In Nigeria, income inequality is one of the most serious and often less discussed issues. A recent study by Oxfam and the Development Finance International group, puts Nigeria outright last in a l ...
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  21 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Day of prayer and fasting for the country, two more dead during yesterday's strike Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Friday, July 21, the Day of prayer and fasting for liberty, justice and peace in Venezuela, promoted by the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference to ask God to bless the efforts of the Venezuelans. In ...
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  21 July 2017
  OCEANIA/TAHITI - Permanent Diaconate raises interest in the community of Papeete Papeete (Agenzia Fides) - The school for the deacons of the Archdiocese of Papeete (Tahiti), founded in 1976, concluded the academic year with just over thirty students, therefore the school is doing well and is "a sign ...
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  21 July 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A Copt dies while being detained in a police station. Relatives and friends: he was tortured to death Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Egyptians, largely belonging to the Coptic community, gathered spontaneously in front of the police station in Manshiet Nasser district to express their anger after the news of the kil ...
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  21 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Beni: a "dead city" for three days to ask for the release of the two abducted priests Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A "dead city" for three days to demand the immediate release of the two priests kidnapped on Sunday, July 16. Yesterday, July 20, the civil society of Beni in the North Kivu province, in the ...
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  21 July 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Cardinal Lacunza has been asking to resolve the situation of Cubans blocked in Panama for months David (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal José Luis Lacunza O.A.R., Bishop of the Diocese of David (Panama), has asked the government to resolve the situation in which Cuban migrants are still blocked at the Los Planes de Gualac ...
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  21 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: there is an attempt to put a hand on the towns of the Nineveh Plain Bhaghdad (Agenzia Fides) - It is unfortunate that the "attempt to put a hand on the towns of the Nineveh Plain, through public or concealed struggles is imposing a negative influence on the native people of this land". T ...
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  21 July 2017
  AFRICA/CAMER00N - Death of the Bishop of Bafia: The Episcopal Conference has lodged a complaint for murder Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Cameroon have filed a lawsuit for an inquiry into the death of His Exc. Mgr. Jean-Marie Benoît Bala, Bishop of Bafia, whose body was found in the Sanaga River, 2 June. The Bishop ...