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  26 June 2017
  VATICAN - Statement of the Director of the Press Office on the case of Mgr. Peter Shao Zhumin Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In response to questions from journalists regarding the case of Mgr. Peter Shao Zhumin, Bishop of Wenzhou (Continental China), the Director of the Holy See's Press Office, Greg Burke, today ...
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  26 June 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bishops close to Islamic leaders at the end of Ramadan: there is talk of peace Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - Peace and interreligious coexistence in Indonesia: this is the central theme of the encounter that newly-elected Archbishop Robertus Rubiyatmoko, at the head of the Catholic community of Semara ...
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  26 June 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "We all demand respect for the New Year's Eve Agreement" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The New Year's Eve Agreement is the only roadmap based on the Constitution, which we must demand respect and its application by the signatories", the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Cong ...
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  26 June 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Mgr. Medina's appeal: the government has abandoned flood victims Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - On the day of the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, on June 23, Bishop emeritus of the diocese of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones (Paraguay), Mgr. Mario Melanio Medina celebrated Mass ...
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  23 June 2017
  AFRICA/BENIN - Record of cotton production: almost half a million tons Porto Novo (Agenzia Fides) - According to estimates from the Ministry of Economy, the cotton production in Benin has reached record levels of almost half a million tonnes. For years, "white gold" did not record such figu ...
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  23 June 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The cry of the Bishops: "In the name of God, do not kill young Venezuelans anymore" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "In the name of God, do not kill young Venezuelans. Their great sin is not to believe in a future that resembles the present". This is what Mgr. Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez, O.C.D., Bishop of Trujillo ...
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  23 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Church mediates for the release of journalists kidnapped in the north of Santander Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "ELN rebels in a conflict area of northeastern Colombia informs that the two Dutch kidnapped are in good health and will be released with a statement", reads the social media account of the guer ...
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  23 June 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Attack failed in Beni: 13 assailants killed Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 13 rebels killed, 13 captured and 6 injured, is the official toll of yesterday’s attack, 22 June, against the city of Beni in northern Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (se ...
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  23 June 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Violent clashes in Bria, in the east of the Country Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Unfortunately, the situation in Central Africa is deteriorating despite the peace agreements signed on June 19 in Rome", say Missionary sources to Agenzia Fides, from Bangui, the capital of the ...
• 23 June 2017
  AMERICA/ANTILLE - Appointment of the Bishop of St. George's in Grenada Vatican City (Agenzia) – Today the Holy Father appointed Rev. Clyde Martin Harvey, of the clergy of Port of Spain, Parish priest and Episcopal Vicar of the clergy, as Bishop of the diocese of St. George's in Grenada. ...
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  23 June 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: "sadness and concern" for the issue of Iraqi Christians whom the US government wants to expel Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Church closely follows, with sadness and concern, the developments in the judicial proceedings with which the United States of America is preparing to expel 114 Iraqis, largely Chal ...
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  23 June 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Shaw: "A Ramadan of Dialogue and Peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We lived an interreligious peace campaign during Ramadan, where we planted olive trees in front of Christian churches, mosques, madrassas, Catholic schools and Islamic institutes. It was a signi ...
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  22 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - To agree on a bilateral ceasefire, a first step in the dialogue between the Government and ELN Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - On June 13, the government informed the delegation of the National Liberation Army (ELN), at the headquarters of the peace talks in Quito, Ecuador, on "the willingness to immediately begin studyi ...
• 22 June 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Good Shepherd" major Seminary in Coimbatore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 5, 2017, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Stanislas Savarimuthu, of the diocesan clergy of Pondicherry-Cudd ...
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  22 June 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Youssef Absi is the new Greek-Melkite Catholic Patriarch Ain Traz (Agenzia Fides) - Youssef Absi is the new Greek-Melkite Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and of the East. 29 Greek-Melkite Catholic Bishops, gathered in the Electoral Synodal Assembly, elect ...