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  10 February 2017
  AMERICA/CUBA - Polio vaccination campaign for 470,000 children Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The 56th National Vaccination Campaign against Poliomyelitis will soon begin in Cuba. Organizers expect that over 471,000 Cuban children will be vaccinated. The first phase will take place from ...
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  10 February 2017
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A city bus in Spain becomes a mobile unit for street children in Sierra Leone Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - One of the operating urban buses in Badajoz, Extremadura, will be sent to Freetown, Sierra Leone, and will become a Mobile Unit for the assistance of thousands of at-risk children living in the ...
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  10 February 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - For the first time a feast of Candlemas for the poor Puno (Agenzia Fides) - The program of celebrations in honor of the feast of Our Lady of Candlemas of Puno, in southern Peru, on the border with Bolivia, on Wednesday, February 8, the Bishop of the diocese, His Exc. Mgr. ...
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  10 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop of Yei: "We demand justice for Sister Veronica" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We demand justice for Sister Veronica Rackova" said His Exc. Mgr. Erkolano Lodu Tombe, Bishop of Yei, in southern Sudan, wondering why the government in Juba is remaining silent with regards to th ...
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  10 February 2017
  VATICAN - The Church close to the world of those who suffer Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "On 11 February next, on the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lourdes, the Twenty-fifth World Day of the Sick will be celebrated - said Pope Francis at the General Audience on Wednesday, ...
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  10 February 2017
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Water crisis, a risk to public health: warning of the Church Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The water crisis and the lack of safe drinking water causes a high risk to public health in Sri Lanka. Many situations of poverty, suffering, disease of the population are linked to the issue of ...
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  10 February 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Nun kidnapped: "No news from the kidnappers but we do not lose hope" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "There are no claims or demands for ransom", says Fr. Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Mali who updates Agenzia Fides about the investigation into the kidnapping o ...
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  10 February 2017
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Fr. Neuhaus’ appeal to the Israeli Government against the expulsion of 14 Filipino teenagers without residence documents Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Jesuit Father David Neuhaus, Patriarchal Vicar for Hebrew-speaking Catholics of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, as coordinator of the Pastoral Care of Migrants, addressed an open letter t ...
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  10 February 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - New challenge for the Pastoral Care of Prisons: what happens after having found freedom? Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - Organized by the Pastoral Care of Prisons, on 3 and 4 February the retreat of prison chaplains in the Convent of San Alfonso, in Villa Allende, Cordoba was held. 22 chaplains from all over the c ...
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  8 February 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dialogue between the government and ELN opens in Quito, the Church is present at the trial Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The public phase of dialogue between the Colombian government and the guerrilla group ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional) opened yesterday, on February 7, in the capital of Ecuador, Quito. T ...
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  8 February 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - New missionary front in the Amazon for Italian fidei donum missionaries Boa Vista (Agenzia Fides) - "The heart of the Church of Roraima, extreme north of the Brazilian Amazon, welcomed with joy the sister church of Padua which on Saturday, January 21, sealed its commitment to open a new miss ...
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  8 February 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "There is a wakeup call for democracy. May 2017 be the year of peace" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Myanmar is going through one of the most harrowing moments of its history. The people of Burma are deeply saddened. Myanmar needs the attention of the world in order to strengthen its fragile pa ...
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  8 February 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - 26,000 Panamanian children still exploited in various forms of work and slavery Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The Institute for the Development of Women and Children (UDEMI) recently organized a meeting with members of civil society, NGO representatives and members of Alianza con la niñez to address the ...
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  8 February 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bishop Shomali: the "legalization" of illegal Israeli settlements is against the virtues of justice, which comes from God Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The law the Israeli Parliament passed yesterday which "regulates" even retroactively houses and Israeli settlements built illegally on Palestinian territory illegally occupied by the army of ...
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  8 February 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops appeal: "drought is to be declared a national disaster" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Drought is to be declared a national disaster". This is the appeal of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) through its Chairman, His Exc. Mgr. Philip Anyolo, Bishop of Homa Bay. "We ...