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  3 April 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The tragedy of outcast children accused of witchcraft Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Outcasts accused of witchcraft : thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rejected by their families, accused of practicing black-magic, bringing bad luck or just because ...
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  3 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Concern for social tension: “this creates a dictatorship” warns Cardinal Urosa Savino Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – " The National Assembly is still blocked. I am deeply concerned about the state of emergency in our country regarding poor economic growth which has persisted for the past twelve months. ...
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  3 April 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Lenín Moreno wins election, Oppostition contests outcome Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Lenín Moreno, the candidate backed by Rafael Correa (Ecuador‘s president), was declared the winner in elections on Sunday 2 April, amid charges of fraud raised by the Opposition. With almost ...
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  3 April 2017
  AFRICA/ RD CONGO - Fresh attacks on Catholic church property in Kasai; Pope Francis says “pray for peace in DR Congo” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Fresh attacks on Catholic church buildings are reported from the Kasai region of the democratic republic of Congo ravaged by fighting between army troops and followers of traditional chief Kam ...
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  3 April 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Priests and sisters tell government: No surrogate maternity for India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – A new Bill intended to regulate the practice of “surrogacy” in India is “a direct attack on the sacred values of marriage, the family, the dignity of women, as well as the natural righ ...
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  31 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest kidnapped in Tamaulipas has been released Tamaulipas (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Oscar Lopez Navarro, 40, was released on Thursday, March 30", said the Bishop of the Diocese of Tampico in Tamaulipas, His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Dibildox Martinez. He informed the loca ...
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  31 March 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A lawyer of the Ahmadiyya community killed in an ambush Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A prominent lawyer and human rights defender, Malik Saleem Latif, who worked ly in Nankana Sahib in Punjab, was gunned down yesterday, March 30, while he was riding a bike driven by his son a fe ...
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  31 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Need to improve the tragic situation through dialogue": Fr. Sosa on the crisis that the country lives Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Venezuelan Jesuit priest Arturo Sosa, first Latin American to be elected superior general of the Society of Jesus (SJ), visited his confreres in Peru this week, where he was interviewed by "El C ...
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  31 March 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Justice and Peace: "the dismissal of the Minister of Finance damages economy and the poor" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The continuous reshuffling of the Ministry of Finance summits throw the Country into chaos and uncertainty and "are not in the interest of the economy and the poor". This was stated by Hi ...
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  31 March 2017
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Child "beggars" of Senegal Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - In Senegal there are about 50,000 children who beg in the streets. They come from villages or from neighboring Countries like Gambia, Mali and Guinea Bissau. Most of them are Talibe, children betw ...
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  31 March 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The fishermen of Kerala, devoted to St. Joseph Cochin (Agenzia Fides) - Saint Joseph was not a fisherman, but his figure is venerated by the fishermen of Kerala, a state in southern India where fishing represents the local economy. The saint is a point of reference f ...
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  30 March 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - A Lenten journey of interreligious dialogue and spirituality Zheng Zhou (Agenzia Fides) - A Chinese Buddhist monk shares his experience as a pilgrim in India and his great personal devotion to Saint Teresa of Calcutta, and shows the medal of the Saint, blessed on the day of her ca ...
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  30 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest kidnapped, a high ransom demand Tamaulipas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Tampico, His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Martinez Dibildox, reported yesterday, March 29, the kidnapping of 40-year-old Fr. Oscar Lopez Navarro. According to the Bishop's statements ...
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  30 March 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "A toy, an illusion": solidarity initiative for children in Africa, Asia and Latin America Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign "A toy, an illusion" will be committed to sending, in the coming months, 350,000 new toys to children in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as games and educational materials in ...
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  30 March 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Planting trees in madrasas and to break fasting together: Christian-Muslim initiatives Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Our goal is to encourage and foster a culture of peace, understanding and harmony between religions in Pakistan, especially between Muslims and Christians": says Fr. Francis Nadeem OFM Cap, Exec ...