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  30 March 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - More than 2 million children cannot go to school due to flood damage Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The recent intense rains have caused heavy flooding in Peru, causing serious material damage in addition to the death of 90 people (see Fides 16/03/2017). As with all natural disasters, children ar ...
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  30 March 2017
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The law, supported by the Church, which bans metal mining has been approved San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Congress of El Salvador yesterday, 29 March, approved a law banning metal mining in the country. The bill was passed by 69 votes in favour out of 84 in total and had broad support from ...
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  30 March 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - "The Holy Father sees Ghana as one of the strongest democratic states in Africa", says the Nuncio Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "The relation between the Holy See and Ghana is excellent and there has been positive development over the years", says His Exc. Mgr. Jean-Marie Speich, Apostolic Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana, in an ...
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  30 March 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - UN inquiry on the conditions of the Rohingya: NGOs and the Church approve Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Myanmar, civil society organizations, several international NGOs have expressed full approval for the UN's decision to establish an official inquiry and a mission to invest ...
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  29 March 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Parliamentary coup": the Bishops ask for legality and respect for democracy Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "The decisions taken, with serious doubts regarding their legality and legitimacy, are a sign of the absolute lack of consideration and respect for the democratic institution that with so much ...
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  EUROPE/PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 1, 2017, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Mark Olivieri, of the archdiocesan clergy of Monaco as National ...
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  29 March 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Cholera epidemic does not stop El Gallabat (Agenzia Fides) - More than 50 people have been infected by cholera in El Gallabat, in eastern Sudan. A woman died in El Jinan, in the western town of El Gallabat. A local health source has informed that 30 c ...
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  29 March 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 13 Copts arrested. The police was asked to intervene in the case of a missing girl Qena (Agenzia Fides) - 13 Coptic Christians were arrested in the city of Qena by the Egyptian police while they were participating in a demonstration to demand the security apparatus to intervene more decisively in the i ...
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  29 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bodies of two UN experts found in central Kasai Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The bodies of US citizen Michael Sharp and Swedish national Zaida Catalan were discovered in the central Kasai region, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They were abducted on 12 March afte ...
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  29 March 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A new Archbishop in Semarang, ready for Asia Youth Day Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Robertus Rubiyatmoko will be consecrated Archbishop of Semarang, in Central Java, on May 19, and the first major event that will accompany the Pastor of the local community is Asia Youth Da ...
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  29 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - More riots and violence in prisons, a reform is urgently needed Ciudad Victoria (Agenzia Fides) - "What happens in Cadereyta prison is just the tip of the 'iceberg', reports a newspaper in Nuevo Leon, referring to the two-day uprising in a Mexican prison, which caused two deaths and ...
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  28 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another priest killed because of crime Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Father Felipe Carrillo Altamirano was killed on Sunday, March 26 in the village of El Nayar, Prelature of Jesús María del Nayar, Nayarit state, apparently victim of an assault for theft. T ...
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  28 March 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - War On Drugs: Catholics commit themselves to form the consciences of police officers Quezon City (Agenzia Fides) – To raise the awareness of police officers and armed forces, engaged in the daily fight against drugs against traffickers and drug dealers, so that they always respect the principles of jus ...
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  28 March 2017
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni at Urbaniana: "Open to the world in which we are called to work" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "This feast of the Pontifical Urbaniana University is an event that we gladly celebrate as a family celebration. In this institution, students, professors and staff spend the best hours of ...
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  28 March 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros: no to alarmism on anti-Christian violence; the Egyptian people also protected the Holy Family Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The stories of violence against Christians recorded in North Sinai represent exceptions, in a Country where already the Holy Family, who escaped Herod, came to seek refuge and protection. With thi ...