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  19 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Malnutrition emergency, infant and maternal mortality rate increases Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - With the collapsing economy, food and drug shortages and rising food prices, half of Venezuelan children under five years of age are at imminent risk of malnutrition. The alarm arrives from Cari ...
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  19 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The priest attacked in the Cathedral is still in serious condition Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Mexico published a statement on the health conditions of Father José Miguel Machorro Alcalá, 55, stabbed while celebrating Mass in the Metropolitan Cathedral on Monday, ...
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  19 May 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Almost six million children and teenagers live in extreme poverty Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - A study carried out by the Participatory Research Center for Economic and Social Policy (Cippes) shows that half of the children and teenagers in the country live below the poverty line. Ci ...
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  19 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - For the Bishops the Constituent Assembly is "not necessary and dangerous for democracy" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV) yesterday issued a Pastoral Exhortation as a conclusion of the Extraordinary Plenary Assembly held from 16 to 18 May (see Fides 17/05/2017). With regar ...
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  19 May 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Caritas committed to countering the plague of child labor New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas India multiplies its commitment to counteract the plague of child labor in the country. According to the 2011 Census data, the total number of working children (between 5 and 14 years ...
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  19 May 2017
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to Priests and religious men and women in Malabo: "We must announce Christ, go to the suburbs!" Malabo (Agenzia Fides) - "I am happy to be in this beautiful country, a land of a young and promising church, for a second pastoral visit ... I chose to begin my stay with this meeting in order to get in touch with the l ...
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  19 May 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Crisis in the DRC: is an external intervention being prepared? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A meeting on the crises in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi was held where representatives of the two States were not invited and Angola was the only African State admitted. The mee ...
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  19 May 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - No to death penalty: a petition to the Senate Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Today, May 19, the "March for Life" reached Manila, to say "no" to the death penalty, a caravan of pilgrims who left from Midanao (Southern Philippines) on May 6, along a route that crossed the ...
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  17 May 2017
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Religious minorities and activists are targeted Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Over the last three years, religious minorities in Bangladesh have faced targeted attacks. During and after the 2014 elections, villages inhabited by non-Muslim religious groups were subjected to ...
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  17 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Venezuelan Bishops gathered in an extraordinary Assembly Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The difficult situation in the country and in various contexts marked by the difficulties experienced by Venezuela have imposed the convocation of the 43rd Extraordinary Plenary Assembly of the ...
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  17 May 2017
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Even Madagascar celebrated the centenary of Fatima's first apparition Fianarantsoa (Agenzia Fides) - "On the occasion of the centenary of the first apparition of Our Lady in Fatima, two pilgrimages were organized in Fianarantsoa". This is what Father Albert Rainiherinoro, MI told Fides. "T ...
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  17 May 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - UNESCO will proclaim the "Path of the Holy Family" World Heritage of Humanity Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - UNESCO is preparing to recognize the "Path of the Holy Family", the itinerary that unites the places travelled, according to the millennial traditions, by Mary, Joseph and the Child Jesus when the ...
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  17 May 2017
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Equatorial Guinea to ordain three Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, will depart for a pastoral visit to Equatorial Guinea tomorrow, May 18, where on 20 May he will pres ...
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  17 May 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Anniversary of Independence: reiterated the need to reform the Constitution together Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - In the presence of President Horacio Cartes, ministers, judges of the Supreme Court, parliamentarians and military leaders, the Archbishop of Asunción, Mgr. Edmundo Valenzuela, on 15 May celeb ...
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  17 May 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Fake documents to those who illegally sold Christian homes: two officials from Baghdad arrested Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Criminal Court of Karrada, district of Baghdad, confirmed on Tuesday, May 16, the measures taken against two corrupt officials who gave impostors and organized groups of swindlers false prop ...