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  7 September 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Hurricane Irma hits the island of Puerto Rico Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Hurricane Irma, category 5, hits the US territory of Puerto Rico. The island has been watching its economy decline for years, has $74 billion in debt and suffers from cuts to emergency servic ...
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  7 September 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite church: salary increase for private school teachers has to be funded by the State Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese government's new provisions on a salary grid and the resulting increase of salaries in the public sector risk having a devastating impact on the entire reality of Lebanese schools ma ...
• 7 September 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of the "S. Giuseppina Bakhita" Propedeutic Seminary of Ngaoundéré Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 28, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. André Pakeu of the diocesan clergy of Yagoua as Rector of "Santa Gi ...
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  7 September 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Mother Teresa's lesson: Faith as an aid in combating addictions Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - Faith is a decisive force in fighting addictions related to drugs, alcohol, gambling and many others. This is what Fr. Joseph Pereira says, a priest of the diocese of Mumbai who was blown away by ...
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  7 September 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops’ appeal: "No threats to the Supreme Court. It is important to ensure the election is held in a peaceful manner" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We, the Catholic Bishops, call on all Kenyans to uphold the independence, dignity and integrity of the Supreme Court and Constitutional institutions even when we do not agree with their decisio ...
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  7 September 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Boom of vocations to priesthood in the diocese of Manado Manado (Agenzia Fides) - Seminarians and priests in Manado, capital of the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi, in eastern Indonesia, are not lacking. As a matter of fact, they are overabundant. As Fides learns, in the ...
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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 ...