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  3 July 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The drama of Internal Displaced People, mainly mothers and children, young girls, often widows Nyal (Agenzia Fides) - "From Juba by plane to Rumbek, a former state of the Lakes, and from here by helicopter for 40 minutes, to Nyal, in the south of the former Unity state. You cannot travel by car, it is too dangerou ...
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  3 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Moreno Barrón: "It is absurd to think that a wall is a sign of progress" Baja California (Agenzia Fides) - When he was appointed Archbishop of Tijuana, Baja California Norte in Mexico, he never thought he would have to deal with the problem of migration so closely, but now, as he says, "it ha ...
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  3 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: Western countries have encouraged the emigration of Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The most painful issue that has hit the Iraqi Christian communities in recent years was their mass escape from Mosul and Nineveh Plain, when entire villages were evacuated one night before the a ...
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  3 July 2017
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Marriage is not a game for children": 60% of girls are married in the Country Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Every 7 seconds, somewhere in the world, a girl under 15 years of age gets married. Niger is one of the countries where the highest rate of girls between 15 to 19 years of age get married. Accord ...
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  3 July 2017
  ASIA - Cardinal D'Rozario: "Women, families and young people in Asia: witnesses of the Gospel" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Women and families in Asia witness the Gospel despite many challenges and difficulties": says to Fides Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario, CSC, Archbishop of Dhaka and President of the Office for the lai ...
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  1 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa: "Enough violence, one could speak of a government war against the people" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "One could speak of a government war against the people", says Cardinal Urosa who condemned the violent repression by both state security forces and paramilitary groups against the demonstrators ...
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  1 July 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Duterte's first year: a disaster for human rights Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the first year of presidency in the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte and his administration "have been responsible for a wide range of human rights violations, intimidation and arrests, establishi ...
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  1 July 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - A Catholic Lebanese University questions the concept of "citizenship" in Islam Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A conference hosted today, Saturday, July 1, by the Notre Dame de Louaïzé University, deepens the crucial question of the compatibility between the principles of citizenship and pluralism and t ...
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  1 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Now more than ever unity is strength": the greetings of Mgr. Epalza in Buenaventura Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - "The affection of the people of Buenaventura is in my mind and heart, and I tell you that now more than ever unity is strength. This is my message: to continue with that tenacity, resistanc ...
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  30 June 2017
  VATICAN - Solemnity of the Apostles Peter and Paul: "The Lord is always at our side, walking with us, never leaving us" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Fathers of the Church liked to compare the holy Apostles Peter and Paul to two columns, on which the visible building of the Church rests. Both sealed with their own blood their testim ...
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  30 June 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish government seizes more than fifty Syriac-Orthodox churches, monasteries and cemeteries Ankara (Agenzia Fides) – There are at least fifty Syriac-Orthodox churches, monasteries and cemeteries scattered around Mardin, which have recently been seized by the Turkish government under the direct attention of th ...
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  30 June 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - National meeting of diocesan representatives and migrant chaplains Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - From June 30 to July 2, the annual national meeting will be held in Buenos Aires, and brings together diocesan delegates and chaplains from migrant communities working in all of the diocese ...
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  30 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishops thank the Pope "for his affectionate support to South Sudan" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "In my name, as President of the Catholic Bishops 'Conference of Sudan (SCBC) and in the name of my Bishops of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sudan, I wish to express my sincere gratitude ...
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  30 June 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - The two Syriac Patriarchs at the Brussels conference on the future of Christians in Iraq. The Assyrian Church of the East does not attend the conference Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - Two Patriarchs of the Eastern Churches, Syriac Orthodox Ignatius Aphrem II and Syriac Catholic Ignatius Youssif III Younan took part in the works of the Conference on A Future for Christians in ...
• 30 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Buenaventura and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the diocese of Buenaventura (Colombia), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Héctor Epalza Quintero, P.S.S. The Pope ...