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  7 July 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Pediatricians, obstetricians, nurses engaged in the refugee camp in Mayo Mayo (Agenzia Fides) - The refugee camp in Mayo is a huge expanse of dust, mud and huts at the doors of Khartoum, capital of Sudan. Its population ranges between 300,000 and 700,000 people who arrived in the early 2000s, ...
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  7 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Plenary Assembly of Bishops: to support the people of God in these difficult moments Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - From July 7 to 12, the 108th Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV), attended by 50 Bishops from the 45 ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the country, will be held in Carac ...
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  7 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another priest brutally killed in his parish Nezahualcóyotl (Agenzia Fides) - "With great pain and dismay we inform of the death of our diocesan priest Luis Lopez Villa, 71, who on July 5 was killed by criminals who managed to break into San Isidro Labrador Parish ...
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  7 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - President Kabila meets with the President of the Episcopal Conference: elections will be held Kisangani (Agenzia Fides) - "We talked about elections. Elections will be held. It is not a secret. They all talk about elections. And I think the president of the Republic, at his level, has not stopped saying that ther ...
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  7 July 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Presidential vote, challenge between two Dalit candidates: who will defend the rights of minorities? New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Two seventy-year-old leaders who represent the dalit community (the untouchables) will run for president of the Indian Union in the upcoming July 17th elections. In India, the President of the ...
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  7 July 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - For now the expropriation of 50 Syriac Orthodox Churches, monasteries and cemeteries has been denied Mardin (Agenzia Fides) - Turkey declares that it has not yet implemented any measure to expropriate 50 Christian churches and monasteries scattered around Mardin, in the Turkish southwestern Tur Abdin region, to transfer ...
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  7 July 2017
  VATICAN - Recognized the martyrdom of Mgr. Jesús Jaramillo Monsalve, first Bishop of Arauca Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Holy Father received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorized the promulgation of several decrees, in ...
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  6 July 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - New impetus from the first workshop of Evangelization Pechino (Agenzia Fides) - It is time to give new impetus to missionary mobilization, nourished by the Word of God and by prayer, led by the Holy Spirit, with greater involvement of the laity: are the reflections of the p ...
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  6 July 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops: urgent measures against the proliferation of private weapons Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The proliferation of private weapons among civilians worries the Maronite Bishops who call upon the Lebanese authorities to counteract it with effective measures, without guaranteeing any toleran ...
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  6 July 2017
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Mgr. Panfilo: "The Church is called by the Gospel to work for justice" Rabaul (Agenzia Fides) - "I want to inform all candidates in the national elections that the Archdiocese of Rabaul and the Episcopal Conference of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands will give weight to the issue of ...
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  6 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - On Independence Day, assault against Parliament Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - A day of tension was experienced yesterday in Venezuela: on the one hand the celebration of the 206th anniversary of the signing of the Act of Independence, on the other the violence in parliame ...
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  6 July 2017
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The creation of a Church Solidarity Fund for national emergencies is being studied Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - A workshop on the establishment of a Caritas national solidarity fund is being held in Ouagadougou, at the Center for Integral Human Development, to address the various crises and natural ca ...
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  6 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Children in the State of Chihuahua begin to use drugs at the age of 10 Chihuahua (Agenzia Fides) - Drug use in the state of Chihuahua starts at 10 years of age. The complaint comes from the PCE State Center for Toxicology, of the Mexican State, which is the first in the Country where alarmi ...
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  6 July 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Cholera also reaches the refugee camps of East Darfur Karthoum (Agenzia Fides) - Following the cases of cholera registered in the White Nile and in the northern State of the Country (see Fides 14/6/2017), it is the turn of the refugee camps in South Sudan and Darfur. Deaths ...
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  6 July 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishop of Marawi: "Let us pray and hope that the war ends soon" Marawi (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is exhausting: more than 40 days of guerrilla war have gone by and our beautiful city of Marawi has been reduced to rubble. We are suffering for Father Chito and the other hostages ...