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  6 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - An indigenous candidate running for presidential elections Tuxpan (Agenzia Fides) - An indigenous woman is running for presidential elections in 2018. The voting that has just been held in Mexico among the delegates of the National Congress of Indigenous People (Inc), a party wh ...
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  6 June 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Presidency of the Episcopal Conference in Rome to meet Pope Francis Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday, June 8, the Presidency of the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV) will be in Rome to meet with the Pope in the Vatican. "The meeting intends to discuss with him the dire situation ...
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  6 June 2017
  VATICAN - Consulata Missionaries: "never tire of bringing comfort" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In the effort of the requalification of the style of missionary service, it will be necessary to favor certain significant elements, such as the sensitivity to the inculturation of the Gos ...
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  6 June 2017
  ASIA/KOREA - Cardinal Yeom: "The evangelical voice of Pope Francis widespread in Korea" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The presence of Pope Francis in Korea in 2014 created a change in society. His visit was for the whole nation a very moving and significant moment. Now, thanks to the agreement we signed w ...
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  6 June 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - In 2018, Suboro TV will be born, the television network of the Syro Orthodox Patriarchate Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Syro Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, from its headquarters in Damascus, announced the future birth of its own television channel, designed to support the pastoral care of Syriac Christian ...
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  6 June 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Bukavu: "The solution is not armed gangs but evangelical non-violence" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Armed gangs are not a stable political solution. Created to endure an unacceptable political order, end up generating an ordeal imposed on their brothers and sisters", write the Bishops of the ...
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  5 June 2017
  VATICAN - Pope Francis' Message for World Mission Day 2017 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the Holy Mass of the Solemnity of Pentecost, celebrated in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, June 4, the Holy Father Francis introduced the recitation of the Marian prayer of Regi ...
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  5 June 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Doctors deny treatment: a Christian worker dies Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - It is an incident that has raised outrage and clamor, which highlights the discrimination against religious minorities in Pakistan: Christian Sewer cleaner Irfan Masih died on June 2nd when a Mus ...
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  5 June 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Two "kamikaze children" blow themselves up in a refugee camp Kolofata (Agenzia Fides) - Two children with explosives, blew themselves up on Friday, June 3, near a refugee camp in northern Cameroon, which houses civilians displaced by Boko Haram's attacks in Nigeria. Nine people di ...
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  5 June 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Thursday, June 8th at 1pm: "One minute for peace in the world" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The National Justice and Peace Commission, the Argentine Catholic Action, together with the Department of Laity, the Episcopal Commission for Ecumenism, Relations with Judaism, Islam and th ...
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  5 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 15 children die in botched vaccine campaign Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Fifteen young children have died in a botched measles vaccination campaign. Children, 5 years of age, lived in the village of Kapoeta, in the southeast of the Country. According to a survey conduct ...
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  5 June 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Child labor: 64% of cases are concentrated in the agricultural sector Panama (Agenzia Fides) - Of the over 23,000 child workers surveyed in the Panama Republic, 64% are engaged in agricultural activities. For this reason, the Ministry of Labor and Development this year has focused its camp ...
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  3 June 2017
  VATICAN - The Pope to the PMS: "October 2019 will be an extraordinary month for the Ad gentes mission" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today June 3, Pope Francis received in audience the participants in the Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS). Here below is the full text of the Speech: Mr Cardinal, dear bro ...
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  2 June 2017
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The first "Weekend for the youth " organized by the Life and Love Education Center Fianarantsoa (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 and 28 May 2017, the E.V.A. Center (Life and Love Education) of the Diocese of Fianarantsoa (Madagascar) organized a weekend for young people between 18 to 30 years of age. This is w ...
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  2 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Mining activity yes, but not like this and not here": Mgr. Londoño Buitrago and the community of Antioquia defend the territory Antioquia (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Jericho, Mgr. Noel Antonio Londoño Buitrago, C.SS.R., joined the voices of protest of farmers, breeders and civil leaders of the municipalities of Pueblorrico, Ta ...