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  21 February 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church on the situation of migrants: "legal, political and social solutions are no longer an option, they are imperative issues" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Due to the executive orders of President Donald Trump, a hostile environment, insecurity, uncertainty and terror has been created concerning thousands of people who are accused of being cri ...
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  21 February 2017
  EUROPE/ITALY - The right to emigrate but also the "right to remain" in their own country Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Migration is a phenomenon that is part of human history. The United Nations estimates indicate 244 million international migrants and 65.3 million people in a situation of forced migration. Beyond ...
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  21 February 2017
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - New priest ordained in Mongolia in the Jubilee year Ulaan Baatar (Agenzia Fides) - While the Catholic Church in Mongolia in 2017 celebrates its silver Jubilee, the community is celebrating the ordination of Bernard Kambala, a member of the Congregation of the Immaculate H ...
• 20 February 2017
  VATICAN - Pope's appeal for the victims of violence in Congo, Pakistan and Iraq Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Marian prayer of the Angelus with the faithful gathered in St Peter's Square yesterday, Sunday, February 19, the Holy Father invited to pray for the people who suffer violence in ...
• 20 February 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation of the Bishop of Mweka, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 18, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Mweka (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Gérard Mulumba ...
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  20 February 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - "Televita", the first Catholic TV Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia has its first Catholic television in streaming and will soon broadcast via satellite frequency. As Fides learns from the Commission for Social Communications of the Archdiocese of Jaka ...
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  20 February 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Growing expectation for the "Memorándum de entendimiento" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - There is growing expectation for the "Memorándum de entendimiento" that the Organization of American States (OAS) will have to sign on February 28 together with the government of Daniel Ortega, ...
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  20 February 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian Catholicos Karekin II convenes a summit to face the internal problems of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople Erevan (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarch Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, convened at the Patriarchal See of Echmiadzin Catholicosate, in Yerevan, some of the protagonists of the dispute in place with regards to the n ...
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  20 February 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A seminary in central Kasai and a parish in Kinshasa ransacked Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Kamwina Nsapu militiamen ransacked the major seminary of Malole in Kananga, in Central Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "The militias systematically broke the doors of the rooms and ...
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  20 February 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The flow of migrants arriving in Guatemala to reach the United States continues Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The flow of migrants arriving in Guatemala with the hope of being able to somehow reach the United States continues: this is what a note from Prensa Latina, sent to Fides reports, where i ...
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  20 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Cholera alarm: "at least 300 suspected cases in a vast and impoverished area" says Cuamm Juba (Agenzia Fides) - There are about 300 suspected cases of cholera which were recorded in February in the counties of Yirol East and Awerial, but the number is expected to grow because "the stories of those who arrive ...
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  20 February 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Marine Le Pen visits Lebanon. Meeting with the Maronite Patriarch on the agenda Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - If she becomes the President of France, Marine Le Pen will reconnect official diplomatic relations with Assad’s Syria and will reopen the French embassy in Damascus. On the occasion of her 48-h ...
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  18 February 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - An extraordinary session of the Holy Synod to address the "divisions" of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The internal crisis within the Syriac Orthodox Church, after charges of "betrayal of faith" on behalf of six metropolitans against Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, could be addressed during an e ...
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  18 February 2017
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Catholics committed to ecumenism and education Dili (East Timor) - "There is great hope for the future of evangelization in East Timor, but it is always necessary to strengthen the faith of our community": says to Agenzia Fides Salesian Bishop Virgilio do Carmo da Si ...
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  18 February 2017
  AMERICA - Odebrecht case, many involved but a single protagonist: corruption Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – What happened on February 16, 2017 can be defined a historical event, unprecedented in the history of Latin America: the meeting between the Ministers of Justice (or their representatives) of ...