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  21 June 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Filipino Muslims are victims of ISIS: no war of religion Zamboanga city (Agenzia Fides) - "The ideological influence of Islam on young Filipino Muslims is not to be underestimated, but the majority of Muslims in Mindanao do not support the Caliphate, does not want violence. An ...
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  20 June 2017
  VATICAN - Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, passes away Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Ivan Dias, (81) Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples from 20 May 2006 to 9 May 2011, passed away in Rome on Monday 19 June, 2017. He had been ill ...
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  20 June 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Exterior spaces of the Cathedral of Jakarta made available to Muslim faithful for Id al Fitr Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Interreligious cooperation between Christians and Muslims is seen and appreciated especially during their respective religious holidays, which become a time for expressing closeness and solidari ...
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  20 June 2017
  EUROPA/ITALY - "I do not travel alone": a project for the integration of migrant minors arriving alone in Italy Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the year, more than 8,000 children and teenagers have crossed the Mediterranean to reach the Italian coast, with an increase of about 20% over the same period of the previous ...
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  20 June 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Recreational centers to stop the phenomenon of child labor Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the National Study on Employment, there are over 2 million children who are employed in Mexico and should not be working in Mexico. To prevent the phenomenon, starting from the ...
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  20 June 2017
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Christian churches denounce: "Zambia is heading towards dictatorship" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Zambia is likely to head towards dictatorship, says the joint statement of the Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ), the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) and the Zambia Conference of Catholi ...
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  20 June 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: in order to rebuild the villages of the Nineveh Plain, external aid is not enough. Christians must not remain passive Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The towns and villages of the Nineveh Plain once inhabited by Christians, after three years of jihadist occupation, try to start all over again also thanks to the generous and concrete support o ...
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  20 June 2017
  VATICAN - "Laity and Mission": a theological reflection on a growing phenomenon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From 13 to 18 February 2017, a seminar on the relationship between Laity and Mission was held at the International Center for Missionary Animation (CIAM) in Rome. The initiative was born in ...
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  20 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Reconciliation with the creation and protection of the Colombian Amazon Leticia (Agenzia Fides) - The third Meeting of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network "REPAM-Colombia" was opened in Leticia on June 19, yesterday. Until June 24 more than 100 people will deepen the reality of the Colombian ...
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  20 June 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - The Nuncio: in the Grand Kasai 3,338 victims of the clashes with militiamen Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are 3,383 victims of violence in the Ecclesiastical Circumscriptions of the Grande Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo, registered from October 2016 to present. This is what the Apo ...
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  20 June 2017
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Archbishop of Rabaul: a negotiating table is urgent PomioRabaul (Agenzia Fides) - "The population of the West Pomio District did not take part in the decision-making process of the development project entrusted to the Malaysian Rimbunan Hijau multinational company, relate ...
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  19 June 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Fertile land of vocations: 37 deacons ordained in Flores in eight days Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "The island of Flores, Indonesia, is still a fertile land of religious and priestly vocations. This is demonstrated by the fact that, in the space of only eight days, on Saturday 10 and Sunday, ...
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  19 June 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Attack in Bogota: "the agony of the enemies of peace, who want a climate of war" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday afternoon, June 17, a bomb exploded in the Andean Shopping Mall, crowded with people, causing three deaths and a dozen were injured. The President of the Colombian Bishops' Conference ...
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  19 June 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Synod for the election of the New Greek-Melchite Patriarch begins Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Synod of Bishops of the Greek Melkite Church has begun today, Monday, June 19, to elect the new Patriarch. At the beginning of May Pope Francis announced that he had accepted the resignation ...
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  19 June 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Assault on a tourist resort in Bamako and at Timbuctu airport Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Two attacks within 24 hours against highly symbolic targets to show that the situation in Mali is still not stable. Yesterday, Sunday, June 18, a group of terrorists attacked "Kangaba" resort in ...