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  3 May 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops denounce: "Politicians waste the scarce resources available to buy votes while drought kills" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The inability by most of these political parties to conduct clean and transparent elections demonstrates the fragility of the Kenyan political system on the eve of the general elections in Augu ...
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  3 May 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Proposal of the Church regarding the autonomy of the Mapuche people, an open question in the country Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "Accept the essential truths of the failure of State negotiations - Mapuche people, with the obligation to negotiate peace without fear of national diversity and autonomy": this is the proposal ...
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  3 May 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syriac Orthodox Patriarch reconciles with four Bishops who had accused him of "betrayal of faith" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aprem II, Primate of the Syriac Orthodox Church, has forgiven four of the six Metropolitan Bishops of his Church who in February had accused him of "betrayal of faith". T ...
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  2 May 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Still clashes, Maduro announces a Constituent Assembly, guarantees for an intervention from the Holy See Rome (Agenzia Fides) - " There is no stop to the arrival of dramatic news about the situation in Venezuela and the aggravation of the clashes with many dead, wounded and detained. As I unite myself to the pain of the fam ...
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  2 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 90% of Mexican children are involved in hazardous work activities Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the 2015 results of the Child Labor Office (MIT) of the National Research on Employment carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), about 2.48 mil ...
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  2 May 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Violence and child labor, the great threats to children Cali (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal for the protection of children's rights was launched by local authorities during the Childhood Day, just celebrated in Colombia. Violence, child labor and sexual abuse are the scourges th ...
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  2 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Cardinal Robles Ortega: Authorities must monitor the security of citizens Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - After numerous attempts of theft, which took place recently and made public through social networks, and after the written messages on walls in at least two neighborhoods in Tonala and Zapop ...
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  2 May 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Peace in Myanmar: religions will give their contribution Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We have come not to count the wounds of the past, but to count the blessings of peace. We have come not to remember the nightmares of the past, but to pursue the promise of peace for us and futu ...
• 2 May 2017
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of the Auxiliary of Xuan Loc Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father has appointed as auxiliary Bishop of the diocese of Xuân Lôc, (Viêt Nam), Rev. John Do Van Ngan, lecturer and vice rector of the St. Joseph interdiocesan major seminary ...
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  2 May 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Controversy on the Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros. Coptic Catholic Bishop: predictable criticism, let us move on Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Joint Declaration signed on Friday 28 April in Cairo by Pope Francis and Catholic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros is causing various kinds of reactions within the Orthodox Coptic Church. In paragr ...
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  2 May 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians and Muslims in Punjab, among violence and gestures of friendship Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An armed group of 20 to 25-year-old Islamic youths on motorcycles attacked a Christian neighborhood of Bhai Pheru in the Kasur district of Pakistani Punjab in recent days, terrorizing the communi ...
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  28 April 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops’ Assembly: prayers for Venezuela and preparations for next visit Ad Limina Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – A solemn concelebration of mass presided by Archbishop Oscar Aparicio of Cochabamba, also vice president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bolivia (CEB), yesterday, 27 April opened t ...
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  28 April 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - 8th Pan-Amazon Social Forum FOSPA opens today 28 April Tarapoto (Agenzia Fides) – The 8th Pan-Amazon Social Forum FOSPA opens today 28 April in Tarapoto, Peru. FOSPA is a privileged forum in which to present proposals and alternatives promoted in the Pan-Amazon civil soci ...
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  28 April 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Wolisso Hospital Auditorium named in memory of Fr Luigi Mazzucato Wolisso (Agenzia Fides) – A ceremony has just ended to name the Aula Magna/Auditorium at Wolisso Hospital after Fr Luigi Mazzucato, Italian director for many years of CUAMM Medici with Africa. “He loved this ho ...
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  28 April 2017
  AMERICA/EQUADOR - A missionary bishop to head the Bishops’ Conference Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ecuador (CEE) has chosen as its new chairman Bishop Eugenio Arellano Fernández, M.C.C.I., of the Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas. He takes the place ...