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  22 March 2017
  EUROPE/ITALY - XXV Day of Missionary Martyrs: "Do not be afraid" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - " 'Do not be afraid' is the invitation that appears on every theophany and is the phrase that the Risen Jesus repeats every time he shows himself to his disciples. An invitation that helps to deal ...
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  22 March 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The Franciscans: political will to ensure food security in India is urgent Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - A shared commitment and the political will to end hunger and nutrition emergency in India is urgently needed, in order to ensure "food security" to the entire population. The Indian government ...
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  22 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The President of CENCO to the UN: "The New Year's Eve agreement is the only way out of the crisis" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Democratic Republic of Congo is now without any legitimate institution. It is the first time that this has happened in our Country since independence. Therefore, the agreement of December ...
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  22 March 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Eight dead in an attack against a refugee camp in the north-east of the Country Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least eight people died in a suicide attack on the night of March 22, in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria. According to preliminary information five suicide bombers ble ...
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  22 March 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Mgr. Ramazzini: the country is economically dependent on remittances from workers in the US Bern (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, His Exc. Mgr. Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri, participated in a panel discussion at the European Parliament in Brussels, which has launched a study on ...
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  21 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Over 12,000 poor children in Bariloche Bariloche (Agenzia Fides) - A group of social organizations of the Movement for Children of Bariloche, a town in northwestern Patagonia in the foothills of the Andes, has issued a statement expressing their opposition to ...
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  21 March 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "It is impossible to live here": says Mgr. Garcia on the violence in Upper Baudo Chocó (Agenzia Fides) - "Violence in Upper Baudo does not stop. The communities along the Baudo and San Juan rivers are living a serious humanitarian crisis, and many have begun to flee", said His Exc. Mgr. Julio Hernan ...
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  21 March 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Sharing means evangelizing: a rosary for the mission in the Somali Region Gode (Agenzia Fides) - More than a year without water, dead livestock along the dirt roads, deaths due to cholera every day, without medicine and medical personnel, and without even a thermometer to measure body temperat ...
• 21 March 2017
  VATICAN - Pope meets with the President of Rwanda: pain for the genocide and for the failings of the Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, March 20, at the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, received in Audience His Excellency Mr Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda. Subsequently, the Pr ...
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  21 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Arizmendi: "Lay down weapons once and for all" San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - After Mass on Sunday, March 19, the Bishop of San Cristobal de Las Casas, His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, called for a definitive solution to the conflict in the area ...
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  21 March 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - Internal divisions - the Armenian community behind the political interference in the election of the new Patriarch Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – Deputy Garo Paylan, Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament, submitted a written interpellation to Turkish Interior minister, Süleyman Soylu asking for clarification regarding the politica ...
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  21 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Mgr. Ambongo: "On March 27 the signing of the agreement to give a start to the new government" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, March 27 the agreement for the implementation of the San Silvestro agreements will be signed to give the DRC a national unity government to prepare legislative and presidential ele ...
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  21 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Anniversary of the killing of Fr. Machozi; light on the three Assumptionists kidnapped? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Dead City" in Butembo on the first anniversary of the assassination of Fr. Vincent Machozi, Assumptionist priest, who denounced the illegal exploitation of coltan in the region (see Fides 22/0 ...
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  21 March 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Tour operators: let us take the opportunity of the Pope’s visit to revive the "Way of the Holy Family" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis’ visit is a propitious occasion to promote Egypt as a destination for Christian pilgrimages and religious tourism, allowing the world to know the initiatives and measures put in pla ...
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  21 March 2017
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - A new president for political stability and economic well-being Dili (Agenzia Fides) - East Timor, which is the youngest Asian nation, yesterday voted for the presidential election, the first election since the UN peacekeeping troops left the country in 2012. The turnout in the Democ ...