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  10 July 2017
  AFRICA/CAMERUN - Bishops confirm their position: Bishop Bala did not drown Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Bishops Conference of Cameroon, His Exc. Mgr. Samuel Kleda, Archbishop of Douala, during a meeting with journalists convened on July 8 at the Episcopal Conference, reiterat ...
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  10 July 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Another peasant killed for land conflict, a national policy is lacking Parà (Agenzia Fides) - Just over a month after the massacre of 10 peasants in Pau D'arco, in the Brazilian state of Para (see Fides 26/05/2017), another rural worker was killed in the same region. On Friday, July 7 Rose ...
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  10 July 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Over 5 million children risk cholera in the Chad Lake region Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - With the arrival of the rainy season in the Chad Lake region, more than 5 million children are at risk of contracting cholera or hepatitis E. Due to the violence of Boko Haram, humanitarian aid is ...
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  10 July 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Mgr. Paz denounces: "Mining activity leaves only contaminated water and fields" Palo Quemado (Agenzia Fides) - "Farmers in Palo Quemado have to face the environmental impact caused by mining activity in the area, especially water and contaminated fields", denounces Mgr. Geovanni Mauricio Paz Hurtado ...
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  10 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian parliamentarian: after the liberation of Mosul, it is necessary to reintegrate all public employees to resume state administration Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Now that Mosul has almost been completely freed by the militia of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (Daesh), it is necessary to reintegrate as soon as possible all state employees and local public ...
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  10 July 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Appeal of Filipino Bishops: "No more war in Marawi" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "No more war in Marawi! We ask the return to normality and peace as soon as possible in Marawi and in the area. We wonder if the extension of the martial law will lead to this. We believe that th ...
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  10 July 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Initiatives of Maronite Institutions to preserve the National Memory of the Lebanese in Diaspora Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - This year more than six hundred Maronites from Lebanese emigrated families will come to Lebanon to participate in the "Maronite Youth Days" from 21 July. The initiative, conceived under the patro ...
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  7 July 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Pediatricians, obstetricians, nurses engaged in the refugee camp in Mayo Mayo (Agenzia Fides) - The refugee camp in Mayo is a huge expanse of dust, mud and huts at the doors of Khartoum, capital of Sudan. Its population ranges between 300,000 and 700,000 people who arrived in the early 2000s, ...
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  7 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Plenary Assembly of Bishops: to support the people of God in these difficult moments Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - From July 7 to 12, the 108th Plenary Assembly of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV), attended by 50 Bishops from the 45 ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the country, will be held in Carac ...
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  7 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another priest brutally killed in his parish Nezahualcóyotl (Agenzia Fides) - "With great pain and dismay we inform of the death of our diocesan priest Luis Lopez Villa, 71, who on July 5 was killed by criminals who managed to break into San Isidro Labrador Parish ...
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  7 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - President Kabila meets with the President of the Episcopal Conference: elections will be held Kisangani (Agenzia Fides) - "We talked about elections. Elections will be held. It is not a secret. They all talk about elections. And I think the president of the Republic, at his level, has not stopped saying that ther ...
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  7 July 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Presidential vote, challenge between two Dalit candidates: who will defend the rights of minorities? New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Two seventy-year-old leaders who represent the dalit community (the untouchables) will run for president of the Indian Union in the upcoming July 17th elections. In India, the President of the ...
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  7 July 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - For now the expropriation of 50 Syriac Orthodox Churches, monasteries and cemeteries has been denied Mardin (Agenzia Fides) - Turkey declares that it has not yet implemented any measure to expropriate 50 Christian churches and monasteries scattered around Mardin, in the Turkish southwestern Tur Abdin region, to transfer ...
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  7 July 2017
  VATICAN - Recognized the martyrdom of Mgr. Jesús Jaramillo Monsalve, first Bishop of Arauca Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - This morning the Holy Father received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorized the promulgation of several decrees, in ...
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  6 July 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - New impetus from the first workshop of Evangelization Pechino (Agenzia Fides) - It is time to give new impetus to missionary mobilization, nourished by the Word of God and by prayer, led by the Holy Spirit, with greater involvement of the laity: are the reflections of the p ...