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  8 May 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - Death of Mgr. Andrea Wang Chongyi, one of the oldest Bishops in mainland China Guiyang (Agenzia Fides) - On Thursday, April 20, His Exc. Mgr. Andrea Aniceto, Wang Chongyi, Archbishop Emeritus of Guiyang, Guizhou Province, died. He was 97 years old and was one of the oldest Bishops in Mainland China ...
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  8 May 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Chibok Girls: "Why have we waited three years to negotiate their release?" asks Cardinal Onaiyekan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank God that these girls have re-embraced their families, but I wonder why they had to wait three years for this to happen", says Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja to A ...
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  8 May 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian Leaders in Lahore: "Stop to the preaching of interreligious hatred on Tv" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Words of anti-Christian hatred on Pakistani TV have been strongly condemned and an appeal to stop the denigration campaign that instigates violence against religious minorities: this is what the ...
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  6 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Enough repression!": denounce the Bishops who defend popular protests Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "At present people need food, medicine, freedom and security, but the government does not solve these serious problems", denounces the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela (CEV) in a statement relea ...
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  6 May 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The solidarity of the Pontifical Mission Societies in favor of vocations in the world Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - May 7, Day for Native Vocations: the solidarity of the Pontifical Mission Societies in favor of vocations in the world. In mission territories there are 1,111 ecclesiastical circumscriptions (dio ...
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  6 May 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarch: In this critical phase, Christians must keep calm and put aside unrealistic projects Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - While the anti-caliphate forces progressively re-conquer Mosul, and interventions tighten on the future political structure of the regions subjugated to the control of the jihadis of the self-pr ...
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  6 May 2017
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishops denounce: "African resources plundered by foreigners; the needs of local peoples are ignored" Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Governments of industrialized Countries seek to find a solution to the world's energy and food crisis in Africa without trying to meet the problems of Africans", denounce the Bishops' Conference ...
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  6 May 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - A new Home of the Missionaries of Charity in Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – The Missionaries of Charity open a new home in the state of Orissa, East India. As Agenzia Fides learns, the new Mother Teresa religious community is located in the famous district of Kand ...
• 5 May 2017
  AFRICA/D.R CONGO - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Godefroid Manunga-Lukokisa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 7, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of Fr. Godefroid Manunga-Lukokisa, SVD as National Dire ...
• 5 May 2017
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Martin Brunner-Artho Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 15, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of permanent deacon Martin Brunner-Artho of the dioce ...
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  5 May 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Assembly of Bishops: "It is urgent to resume the path of ethics to rebuild social fabric" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Brazil, almost at the end of their 55th General Assembly celebrated in Aparecida, which ends on May 5, have issued an official note on the historic moment Brazil has been living ...
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  5 May 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Poverty and domestic violence: First Causes of child marriage involving 1 girl out of 3 Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "Plan Internacional República Dominicana", an organization that promotes children's rights, recently presented its latest study entitled "Characterization of forced marriage of girls and ...
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  5 May 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistani Christian condemned to jail for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christian Zafar Bhatti, falsely accused of blasphemy in 2012 and taken to trial, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Rawalpindi. This is what Agenzia Fides learns from local sources. ...
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  5 May 2017
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The number of malnourished children increases: almost a million and a half Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the year, the number of children affected by malnutrition in Somalia has increased by 50%: one million and 400 thousand. These numbers were released by Unicef, that also ...
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  5 May 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Dangerous levels of unemployed youth but there is no political culture to tackle the problem" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "There is not much to celebrate when millions of young people in the country remain unemployed and desperate", denounces His Exc. Mgr. Abel Gabuza, Bishop of Kimberly and chair person of SA ...