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  1 March 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishops: "We are not for or against anyone, but we are for the good of all" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church is not against the government", said His Exc. Mgr. Erkolano Lodu Tombe, Bishop of Yei, in south Sudan, who reiterated the commitment of Catholic Bishops in providing support to the gove ...
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  1 March 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Imam of al Azhar: even Judaism and Christianity have a history marked by violence Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Even "Judaism and Christianity have a history of violence", and all religions have been complicite in acts of violence and murder. This is how Sheikh Ahmed al Tayyib, Grand Imam of al-Azhar, wan ...
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  1 March 2017
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - For the Lunar Year celebration, Lenten penance postponed Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - "Tsagaan Sar", which literally means "White Moon", rich in symbolism and rituals that take place in families, such as a thorough cleaning of the house, wishes pronounced by the elders, praye ...
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  1 March 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Maronite Archbishop: Bitter Lent for the Syrian churches, many priests have fled Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of Syria are preparing to live a "bitter Lent", and among the many factors of suffering and sorrow afflicting the Churches of Syria there is the fact that many priests who during ...
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  27 February 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Family conflicts: fertile ground for violence in schools Puebla (Agenzia Fides) - Violence and family conflicts, stress and lack of food, are breeding grounds for children who attend school and listlessly increasingly become aggressive towards other classmates. The alarm was l ...
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  27 February 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Clear signs of peace by ELN: the request of the Bishop of Arauca Arauca (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Arauca calls for clear signs of peace from ELN (National Liberation Army) in this particular moment: last week, this guerrilla group attacked police stations and stol ...
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  27 February 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "EsTuDía": literacy campaign for the children of Antioquia Medellin (Agenzia Fides) - The National Ministry of Education has just launched the "EsTuDía" with the goal to seek, in the most remote places of Colombia, children and young people who do not go to school. The initiati ...
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  27 February 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "Repent to save the planet: urgent ecological conversion" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we are faced with an environmental holocaust. It is a very delicate moment. Pope Francis raised his voice against this impending disaster talking about modern sins, 'ecological sins' made ...
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  27 February 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The Bishops denounce: "Violence in Kasai fruit of political manipulation" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Since July 2016 the conflict between traditional Chief Jean-Prince Kamwina-Nsapu Pandi and the authorities of central Kasai province has taken a tragic dimension that goes far beyond its origi ...
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  27 February 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Even the Salafists of Al Nur condemn the 7 targeted killings of Copts in North Sinai Al Arish (Agenzia Fides) - The announced series of murders against Coptic Christians in northern Sinai in recent weeks, has caused the flight of more than 100 Christian families, who moved from the capital al Arish to th ...
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  27 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Xenophobic attacks: for the Bishops "No grievance justifies the violence against foreign nationals" Pretoria (Agenzia Fides) - "No grievance justifies the violence against foreign nationals" said His Exc. Mgr. Abel Gabuza, Bishop of Kimberly and President of the Bishops' Commission for Justice and Peace" of the South A ...
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  27 February 2017
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Concern of the Church for the labor crisis in Soriano and in Cologne Mercedes (Agenzia Fides) – As Lent approaches, the priests of the diocese of Mercedes (Urugauy) with the Bishop, His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Collazzi, issued a statement expressing "concern and pain" for "the difficult situat ...
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  24 February 2017
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Kira Mama Plus! A new maternity ward in Cibitoke Cibitoke (Agenzia Fides) - Mothers and children in Cibitoke, in the north of Burundi, will soon have a new neonatal ward. The Medical Cooperation Committee will provide the district hospital an essential tool to reduce i ...
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  24 February 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Another Coptic Christian found dead in northern Sinai Al Arish (Agenzia Fides) - A 40-year-old Coptic Christian was found dead with a gunshot to the neck, in the Egyptian town of Al-Arish, capital of Northern Sinai, on Thursday, February 23. The body was found inside his ho ...
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  24 February 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - One of the policemen injured in the explosion in La Macarena has died Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Military Bishop, His Exc. Mgr. Fabio Suescun Mutis, went to hospital to visit the members of the police who were injured in the explosion in the district of La Macarena, in Bogota, on 19 Febr ...