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  4 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops renew their appeal for Sister Gloria’s release, four countries involved Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - After the video in which Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez appears, kidnapped by Al Qaeda in Mali, on February 7 (see Fides 8 and 9/02/2017), the President of the Episcopal Conference Of Colombia, ...
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  4 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Poverty, discrimination, infant marriages among the Latin American plagues Santiago del Chile (Agenzia Fides) - The percentage of pregnant teenagers in Chile is higher in the Afro descent and Indigenous population. The ethno-racial component also aggravates the phenomenon. The figures were anno ...
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  4 July 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Targeted attacks on Muslim minorities: the climate of intolerance in society is worrying New Dehli (Agenzia Fides) - "Attacks on minorities seem to have become the norm. Throughout India, many Muslims have been attacked by crowds, often instigated by messages on WhatsApp, that accuse Muslims of killing cattl ...
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  4 July 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Cardinal Da Rocha: "Corruption kills! Market interests are not a reason to sacrifice the people!" Brazil (Agenzia Fides) - It is not the first time that the Bishops of Brazil warn about the economic reforms of the government, but the President of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), Cardinal Sergio Da ...
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  4 July 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - Lay people need to intensify their involvement in the pastoral activities of the Church Accra (Agenzia Fides) – The laity in Ghana should begin to intensify their involvement in the Pastoral activities of the Church by assisting Priests to provide spiritual and emotional support to Christ’s faithful and ...
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  4 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: the right to talk about the future of Nineveh Plain are mainly the people of the region Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Discussions and even divisions among the Iraqi Christians increase around the future political-administrative settlement of the so-called Nineveh Plain, a region which has recently been liberated ...
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  3 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Even Sister Gloria Cecilia in the video released by Al Qaeda with those kidnapped in Mali Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed that it has received proof that Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoty, the Colombian missionary abducted on 8 February in the village of Kara ...
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  3 July 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The drama of Internal Displaced People, mainly mothers and children, young girls, often widows Nyal (Agenzia Fides) - "From Juba by plane to Rumbek, a former state of the Lakes, and from here by helicopter for 40 minutes, to Nyal, in the south of the former Unity state. You cannot travel by car, it is too dangerou ...
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  3 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Moreno Barrón: "It is absurd to think that a wall is a sign of progress" Baja California (Agenzia Fides) - When he was appointed Archbishop of Tijuana, Baja California Norte in Mexico, he never thought he would have to deal with the problem of migration so closely, but now, as he says, "it ha ...
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  3 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: Western countries have encouraged the emigration of Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The most painful issue that has hit the Iraqi Christian communities in recent years was their mass escape from Mosul and Nineveh Plain, when entire villages were evacuated one night before the a ...
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  3 July 2017
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Marriage is not a game for children": 60% of girls are married in the Country Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Every 7 seconds, somewhere in the world, a girl under 15 years of age gets married. Niger is one of the countries where the highest rate of girls between 15 to 19 years of age get married. Accord ...
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  3 July 2017
  ASIA - Cardinal D'Rozario: "Women, families and young people in Asia: witnesses of the Gospel" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Women and families in Asia witness the Gospel despite many challenges and difficulties": says to Fides Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario, CSC, Archbishop of Dhaka and President of the Office for the lai ...
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  1 July 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa: "Enough violence, one could speak of a government war against the people" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "One could speak of a government war against the people", says Cardinal Urosa who condemned the violent repression by both state security forces and paramilitary groups against the demonstrators ...
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  1 July 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Duterte's first year: a disaster for human rights Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the first year of presidency in the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte and his administration "have been responsible for a wide range of human rights violations, intimidation and arrests, establishi ...
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  1 July 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - A Catholic Lebanese University questions the concept of "citizenship" in Islam Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A conference hosted today, Saturday, July 1, by the Notre Dame de Louaïzé University, deepens the crucial question of the compatibility between the principles of citizenship and pluralism and t ...