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  17 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Haitian children integrated in Mexican border schools Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - A group of seven minor Haitians has been integrated into the educational system of Baja California. This is what the coordinator of the Binational Migrant Education Programme said in a note sent ...
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  17 March 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Africa awards a priest and a Pakistani imam for interreligious harmony Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An award for how interreligious harmony is carried out in daily work, a work that is an example for the entire African continent: with these reasons the African section of the "United Religions I ...
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  17 March 2017
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: "To advance firmly towards this process of listening, understanding, discernment and action" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Urbaniana University dedicated its main moment of scientific reflection of the academic year, to the deepening of the meaning of "discernment" in the Church and in the world ...
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  17 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico-US Border: the Pro-Migrants commission in 18 dioceses already operational Naucalpan (Agenzia Fides) - Eighteen dioceses of the border, in Mexico and the United States, have established commissions for legal advice to migrants in danger of being deported or in transit to the United States. The ...
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  17 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "It is unacceptable that one thinks of ministerial positions and not the interest of the Congolese" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is strange and unacceptable to see that the work for the agreement takes more time than the drafting and approval of the agreement as such", said His Exc. Mgr. Marcel Utembi Tapa, Archbisho ...
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  17 March 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church establishes National Youth Day Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - National Youth Day will be held every year on the first Sunday of August, which will unite all young Indian Catholics and will be a time to witness the Gospel, celebrated at a diocesan level: ...
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  17 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Jesuit missions unite Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay once again Misiones (Agenzia Fides) - In a bilateral meeting between leaders of the state governments of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and Misiones (Argentina), a commitment to return to the path that links 30 historical Jesuit missio ...
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  16 March 2017
  AMERICA - The unexpected intensity of the rains cause deaths and displaced people in Ecuador and Peru Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The intense rains in recent weeks in various regions of Ecuador and Peru continue to cause damage to people, animals, crops and infrastructure. In Ecuador, during the rainy season, known as the equ ...
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  16 March 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Meeting of Bishops and leaders of the Indigenous Pastoral of the Southern Cone Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile will be present to share their experiences and pastoral plans from 15 to 17 March, in Santiago, Chile. The meeting aims to share ex ...
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  16 March 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops: Justice for the 40 girls who died in the Guatemalan fire Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "The tragedy at the Hogar Virgen de la Asunción reception center was not a simple accident, but the tragic end of an irregular situation that had been denounced so many times", said the ...
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  16 March 2017
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "The only thing that matters is daily survival. You cannot make plans for the future" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - A Country that can only think of daily survival and is unable to plan for the future: Malawi has for a long time found itself in a serious economic, political and food crisis. Fr. Piergiorgio G ...
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  16 March 2017
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - 90 years of the founding of the diocese of Pyongyang: a Mass and an exhibition for the Catholics of North Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In 2017, the Catholic diocese of Pyongyang celebrates its 90th anniversary of foundation: for the occasion the Archdiocese of Seoul has organized a series of initiatives, like a special Mass and a ...
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  16 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Talks mediated by the Bishops between majority and opposition resume today Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Talks between the majority and the opposition regarding the implementation of the San Silvestro agreements resume today, 16 March, in order to give the DRC a national unity government that will ...
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  16 March 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Aoun meets the Pope while Lebanese Maronite Christians call for more political representation Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Lebanon, Michel Aoun was received today, Thursday, March 16, by Pope Francis in the Vatican. In the course of the visit, Michel Aoun also met with the Cardinal Secretary of State ...
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  15 March 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops condemn the bill that allows abortion even in cases of poverty La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Episcopal Conference is contrary to Parliament’s draft law laying down various causes that justify abortion, including poverty. "The proposal distorts the criminal justice system, ...