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  20 July 2017
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Inauguration of a new temple dedicated to the Christ of Esquipulas San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn Mass presided by His Exc. Mgr. Ángel Garachana, Bishop of the diocese of San Pedro Sula, a new temple dedicated to the Christ of Esquipulas was inaugurated. The solemn ritu ...
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  20 July 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops: "No to the registration of pastors and ministers of religion" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The recommendation that new laws be introduced to enforce registration of pastors and ministers is overkill and a response that one would expect more from a totalitarian state than a const ...
• 19 July 2017
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Claudio Santangelo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 11, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Fr. Claudio Santangelo, of the Congregation of the Mission (CM) Lazar ...
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  19 July 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Home-to-Home" campaigns to prevent cholera Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Presentations on the streets, online videos, posters, bars of soap: are some of the local initiatives that have been done to help people fight against infection and raise awareness about the ra ...
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  19 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - November 19 - Day Against Child Abuse in Medellin Medellín (Agenzia Fides) - The establishment of the "Day against child abuse", which will be celebrated on November 19, has just been approved in Medellín. The goal is to continue working to protect the rights of child ...
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  19 July 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishop Seitz's Pastoral Letter: it is important to welcome migrants according to the Gospel El Paso (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, His Exc. Mgr. Mark J. Seitz, condemned the demonization of immigrants, the militarization of the border and the immigration system that divides fam ...
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  19 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian Mayor of Alqosh dismissed. The Nineveh Plain is increasingly a "controversial area" in the eyes of Kurdish secessionists Alqosh (Agenzia Fides) - With an unusual emergency procedure, the Council of the Iraqi Province of Nineveh dismissed the mayor of Alqosh, a town of the Nineveh Plain historically inhabited by Christians, and replaced him ...
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  19 July 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - Give powers to traditional leaders to manage development projects Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Africans have been called to change their mindset in order to develop the African continent. If traditional leaders joined parliament members, development projects could be managed more quickly an ...
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  19 July 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Denial regarding the recent reports on Patriarch Tawadros' health conditions Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - An official statement of the Orthodox Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria denied the allegations that social media had spread regarding a sudden deterioration of the health conditions of Patriarch ...
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  18 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa Savino after the attack in the parish: "enough violence against the people" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, "condemns the attack of armed groups against citizens who were peacefully participating in the popular consultation on the Constituent Assembl ...
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  18 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Two priests kidnapped. The Bishops' condemnation: "Hurting them means harming the community they serve" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Two Congolese Catholic priests were kidnapped during the night between Sunday 16 and Monday, July 17. Don Pierre Akilimali and Don Charles Kipasa were kidnapped by strangers in the Notre-Dame d ...
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  18 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Month of the Bible on the road of reconciliation, to be artisans of peace Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - In several Latin American countries, September is celebrated as the "Month of the Bible" and is marked by various initiatives at all levels to promote reading and the knowledge of the Scriptures ...
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  18 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - "Rehabilitation Camp" Jihadist families set up in a Christian Village of the Nineveh Plain Bartella (Agenzia Fides) - After the conquest of Mosul, Iraqi security forces have transferred at least 170 families with members considered to be affiliated to the self-proclaimed Islamic State (Daesh) to a "Rehabilitat ...
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  18 July 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Freed from prostitution to become lawyers who pursue exploiters New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Children systematically mistreated and forced into prostitution with 20 clients per day, without rights, no voice and no one worrying about their inhuman conditions. This is the harsh reality ...
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  18 July 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Religious leaders denounce the terrorist attacks and banditism to prevent the people from voting Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are convinced that these attacks, though masquerading as terrorism or banditry, may actually be orchestrated criminality aimed at displacing populations so that they don’t participate in t ...