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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 ...
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  16 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Two hundred years of Christian faith: Cape Town opens the celebrations Cape Town (Agenzia Fides) - It was on June 7, 1818 that Pope Pius VII erected the Vicariate Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope and Adjacent Territories, thus constituting for the first time a formal presence of the Catho ...
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  16 June 2017
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Zika Virus prevention Campaign has been launched Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In order to avoid the risk of contracting the Zika virus regarding pregnant women, the Health Ministry in Honduras, in collaboration with some international Organizations, has launched the ...
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  16 June 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Kurdistan, the "separatists" seek Christian support Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Masrour Barzani, head of the intelligence in the autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan and President Masud's son, wanted to meet a delegation of representatives of the most rooted Churches in the r ...
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  16 June 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - 500 Years of the arrival of the Gospel in the Philippines: A Time for Mission Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Preparations to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Gospel in the Philippines (in 1521) is underway throughout the country: "To prepare oneself properly for this important event ...
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  16 June 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Bishop: to propose a law to abolish foreign names is a time-waster employment Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Controversy and sarcasm in Egypt increase with regards to the bill submitted on Tuesday 13 June to the Egyptian Parliament to forbid the conferral of Western and "foreign" names to Egyptian babies ...
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  14 June 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - “We reject a State which robs us of our freedom”: Bishop Ramos on the subject of abortion law Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – “The door is being opened for the State to rob citizens of their freedom to make decisions to protect life” said Bishop Fernando Ramos, Auxiliary of Santiago and Secretary General of the ...