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  12 June 2017
  ASIA/JORDAN - Caritas distributes food parcels to Muslims during Ramadan Amman (Agenzia Fides) – Caritas in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan has organised the distribution of food parcels for the most needy Muslim families in the poorest parts of Naur district, western urban area of the city ...
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  12 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “Let us do everything to make a future visit of Pope Francis possible” says the President of the local Bishops’ Conference Juba (Agenzia Fides) - “The cancelation of a planned visit by Pope Francis to South Sudan must be met with respect and prayer! The reasons for the cancellation surely go beyond superficial speculation and could be ...
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  12 June 2017
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Ranging from assistance for civil war evacuees to providing mother and child healthcare CUAMM Italian doctors in Angola mark 20 years of service Chiulo (Agenzia Fides) – On 13 June 1997 the first doctor of Medici con l’Africa CUAMM - the first healthcare NGO to be acknowledged in Italy and the largest Italian organization for safeguarding the health of Afri ...
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  12 June 2017
  EUROPE/POLAND - Cardinal Filoni ordains Fr Tadeusz Wojda Archbishop of Bialystok Bialystok (Agenzia Fides)- “On the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, the Church presents herself to the world as a communion of persons, in the image and likeness of God, because God is a communion of three perso ...
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  10 June 2017
  VATICAN - Migrants and Refugees. Meeting for delegates from all over the world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – This coming 12 and 13 June the Migrants and Refugees Sector of the Vatican Office for Integral Human Development will host a Working Seminar in Rome with the participation of Bishop dele ...
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  9 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops: communion and solidarity with the suffering of the people of Venezuela Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "United as a Church, we launch an appeal to show communion and solidarity with the suffering of the people of Venezuela", writes the President of the Bishops' Conference of Mexico (CEM) Card ...
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  9 June 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Malnutrition and illness affect settlements of displaced people Kalèmie (Agenzia Fides) - "Conditions in the settlements in the territories of Kalémie and Kansimba and in the province of Tanganyika need to be urgently improved, healthcare must be made easily accessible, food aid sh ...
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  9 June 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - In Gujarat, a book defines Jesus "devil": Christians ask for its withdrawal Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) - A high school textbook in Hindi language, published by the "Gujarat State School Board for school books", being used in public schools in the state of West India, mentions and defines Jesus Ch ...
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  9 June 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Minister to Christians: security at risk, reduce visits and celebrations in churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egypt is under attack by forces wishing to destabilize the Country, and among the security measures promoted by State apparatus there is also the advice to Christians to reduce visits and celebrat ...
• 9 June 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of the "Notre Dame de l'Immaculée Conception" Major Seminary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 11, 2017, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Jean Paul René Ondoua Omgba, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Ya ...
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  9 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Nine children out of 100 work and 37% do not go to school Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico 9 children out of 100 between 5 to 17 years of age work. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), there are two million and 475,000 children engaged ...
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  9 June 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The priests of Jakarta: a pastoral movement to defend unity in diversity Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – To create a pastoral movement inspired by the Gospel to defend "unity in diversity", fundamental principle of Indonesia: as Fides learns, this is the goal expressed by the priests of the Archd ...
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  VATICAN - The Pope deeply saddened by the events of the diocese of Ahiara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday the Holy Father received a Delegation of the Diocese of Ahiara, Nigeria, in a private Audience, which has been living a painful situation for years (see Fides, 8/6/2017). The me ...
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  9 June 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Three years on, Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Baghdad, Louis Raphael Sako returns to Mosul districts taken back from jihadist militia Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Exactly three years since Mosul was taken by the so called IS Islamic state terror group (DAESH), Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako was able to return to the northern Iraqi city ...
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  8 June 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraq's Kurds to hold September independence referendum Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region will hold a referendum on independence on September 25. The decision, aimed at provoking the negative reaction of the central government in Baghdad was take ...