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  26 July 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church launches an awareness campaign against female genital mutilation Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Orthodox Coptic Church is about to launch an intense awareness campaign among its faithful against the practice of female genital mutilation, which continues to be widespread among Coptic Chri ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - In debt with childhood: Dominican children are deprived of their rights Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 13% of minors in the Dominican Republic are forced to work, about 15% do not go to school and 28% are married or cohabit. These alarming data have been reported by the "In Debt with ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Goic Karmelic's reflection: For a democracy based on values Rancagua (Agenzia Fides) - "The debate in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies last week, on the abolition of abortion, saddened me with regards to democracy based on values which since my childhood I was taught to nurture ...
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  26 July 2017
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Start-ups against counterfeit medicines Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - It is estimated that about 10% of the medicines in the world are counterfeit, a figure equivalent to 85 billion euros, according to the Institute for Research Against Counterfeit Medicines in Pari ...
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  26 July 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Justice and Peace: "No to the law that permits open grazing" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent activities of herdsmen in our country causing violence and destruction of farm lands and properties have become an issue that we must not neglect, especially in the Middle Belt", says ...
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  26 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Pressure continues to involve Christians in the referendum on independence in Kurdistan Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Political leaders of the autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan continue to manifest in various ways the intention to involve Christians in support of the referendum convened for next September 25 i ...
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  25 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishops on the decriminalization of abortion: With more force than before, we promote the value of life Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Following the approval of the draft law by the Chilean Senate that decriminalizes the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in three particular cases, "there will be laws on euthanasia and so on" ...
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  25 July 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Still tensions at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Fr.Neuhaus: when sacred things are touched, rage always explodes Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli government has ordered the removal of installed metal detectors to control the entry at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. But it is still early to understand whether this m ...
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  25 July 2017
  EUROPE/FRANCE - First Anniversary of Fr. Hamel’s death Rouen (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Jacques Hamel, 84, had his throat cut while he was celebrating mass in Saint Etienne du Rouvray church, Normandy (France) on the morning of July 26, 2016. Two men entered the church during t ...
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  25 July 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Detroit judge blocks deportation of Iraqi immigrants for 90 days Detroit (Agenzia Fides) – A judge Mark Goldsmith in Detroit has temporarily halted the deportations of Chaldean Christians and other Iraqi immigrants ordered last June by virtue of the new immigration rules implemented ...
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  25 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appeal of the secular clergy of Butembo-Béni: "Release our confreres without condition" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply appalled by the abduction of our confreres and demand their release without conditions". This is how the secular priests of the diocese of Butembo-Béni addressed the kidnappers ...
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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 ...