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  20 June 2017
  VATICAN - "Laity and Mission": a theological reflection on a growing phenomenon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From 13 to 18 February 2017, a seminar on the relationship between Laity and Mission was held at the International Center for Missionary Animation (CIAM) in Rome. The initiative was born in ...
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  20 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Reconciliation with the creation and protection of the Colombian Amazon Leticia (Agenzia Fides) - The third Meeting of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network "REPAM-Colombia" was opened in Leticia on June 19, yesterday. Until June 24 more than 100 people will deepen the reality of the Colombian ...
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  20 June 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - The Nuncio: in the Grand Kasai 3,338 victims of the clashes with militiamen Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are 3,383 victims of violence in the Ecclesiastical Circumscriptions of the Grande Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo, registered from October 2016 to present. This is what the Apo ...
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  20 June 2017
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Archbishop of Rabaul: a negotiating table is urgent PomioRabaul (Agenzia Fides) - "The population of the West Pomio District did not take part in the decision-making process of the development project entrusted to the Malaysian Rimbunan Hijau multinational company, relate ...
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  19 June 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Fertile land of vocations: 37 deacons ordained in Flores in eight days Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "The island of Flores, Indonesia, is still a fertile land of religious and priestly vocations. This is demonstrated by the fact that, in the space of only eight days, on Saturday 10 and Sunday, ...
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  19 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Attack in Bogota: "the agony of the enemies of peace, who want a climate of war" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday afternoon, June 17, a bomb exploded in the Andean Shopping Mall, crowded with people, causing three deaths and a dozen were injured. The President of the Colombian Bishops' Conference ...
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  19 June 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Synod for the election of the New Greek-Melchite Patriarch begins Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Synod of Bishops of the Greek Melkite Church has begun today, Monday, June 19, to elect the new Patriarch. At the beginning of May Pope Francis announced that he had accepted the resignation ...
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  19 June 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Assault on a tourist resort in Bamako and at Timbuctu airport Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Two attacks within 24 hours against highly symbolic targets to show that the situation in Mali is still not stable. Yesterday, Sunday, June 18, a group of terrorists attacked "Kangaba" resort in ...
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  19 June 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Migrant Week: It is not just a humanitarian crisis Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - From 18 to 25 June, the Catholic Church in Brazil celebrates the 32nd Migrant Week, with the theme "Migrations, biomes and living well", announces the Bishops' Conference of Brazil in the comm ...
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  19 June 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Over one thousand working children engaged in markets in Managua Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of vulnerable children in Managua drop out of school to work in the markets of the city. Many of them are children of the same merchants. The Nicaraguan Institute for Human Promotion (I ...
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  19 June 2017
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdallah II confirms: the defense of Christian and Muslim Holy Sites of Jerusalem is a "priority" for the Hashimite Monarchy Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The protection of Jerusalem's holy Muslim and Christian sites is a "priority" for the Hashimite Monarchy, committed to supporting the birth of an independent Palestinian state that has Gerusalem E ...
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  17 June 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Approval of the new electoral law. The National Director of the PMS: "compromise for stability" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The approval of the new electoral law by the Lebanese Parliament confirms and reasserts "the great compromise among different forces, which represents the essential key to reading this phase of L ...
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  17 June 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Five years after the massacre of Curuguaty: "Lugo represents no one", says Mgr. Medina Canindeyú (Agenzia Fides) – On June 15, Mgr. Mario Melanio Medina Salinas, Bishop Emeritus of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, attended the celebration to remember the 5 years since the Massacre of Curuguaty. On Jun ...
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  16 June 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Two Red Cross members released Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The two members of a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who were abducted in the morning of Wednesday, 7 June, between Kirumba and Beni, near Lubero, in North Kivu ...
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  16 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops appeal: Teachers have been on strike for one month: "It is time to listen to each other" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - Colombia's Bishops call for "peaceful and open dialogue" to overcome the teacher’s, who have been on strike for a month. In a statement sent to Fides on June 15, the Colombian Bishops' Confere ...