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  15 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Violence against children and adolescents increased in 2016 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In the annual analysis of the report Somos Noticia, relative to 2016, the NGO Centro Comunitario de Aprendizaje (Cecodap), highlighted alarming results. In the note sent to Fides, the general co ...
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  15 March 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Prime Minister Sharif: punish blasphemy on web and abuse of the law, to protect minorities Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif intervened again on the issue of blasphemy. Sharif ordered to remove "blasphemous" content on websites and social media in Pakistan and to punish t ...
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  15 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Two UN experts kidnapped in central Kasai Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "On March 13, CEPADHO learned with dismay about the abduction of Michael Sharp and Zahida Katala of the UN Expert Group for the Democratic Republic of Congo", said a statement sent to Agenzia F ...
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  15 March 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - 968 displaced people return home thanks to funds donated by the Holy See Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas donated financial assistance to facilitate the return of 968 displaced persons welcomed in the John XXIII center in Bangui to their home. The necessary funds, 80 million CFA Francs, were ...
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  15 March 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Six years of Syrian conflict. The Jesuits JRS: the war is not over Homs (Agenzia Fides) – Wednesday, March 15 marks the sixth anniversary of the conflict in Syria. And contrary to what is reported by international media, Syria "continues to suffer." This is the key message that the Je ...
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  14 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - A new center in Gaboto where children receive care, food, schooling Puerto Gaboto (Agenzia Fides) - A new reception center for minors, CCI, was opened in the town of Gaboto, in the southeast of the Department of San Jeronimo, Santa Fe province, with the aim of preventing and eradicating ...
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  14 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Solidarity Pots": parishes committed to giving food to the hungry Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - Father Jesús Martínez, is a priest of San Francisco de Asís parish, in the Archdiocese of Barquisimeto, where there is the "olla solidaria" (literally "solidarity pot"), namely the daily ...
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  14 March 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Catholic Church in Ankara will host the liturgies celebrated by the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Orthodox Christians Ankara (Agenzia Fides) – Starting from March 2017, an Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople will celebrate the Divine Liturgy for the Orthodox faithful living in Ankara once a month, and will d ...
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  14 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Denunciation of the Bishop of Quilmes after attempting to set fire to a church Quilmes (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Quilmes, in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, His Exc. Mgr. José Carlos Tissera, informed that on March 10, after the evening Mass, the faithful had just left ...
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  14 March 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Asian Youth Day 2017: celebrating diversity in a multicultural society Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - To encourage and accompany young people in Asia to live and promote a "culture of solidarity and encounter with the other, in the multicultural and multireligious societies of Asia", and increas ...
• 14 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The UN evacuates 25 seminarians of the Seminary of Kananga assaulted in February Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-five seminarians were evacuated by the Blue Helmets of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). The seminarians evacuated in Mbuji-Mayi were part of the group that w ...
• 14 March 2017
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Resignation of the Bishop of Jeonju, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On March 14, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Jeonju (Korea), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Vincent Ri Pyung-ho. The Holy Father a ...
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  14 March 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Even Assyrian Patriarch Mar Gewargis supports the aggregation process of political and social Christian acronyms Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Even Mar Gewargis III, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, supports the impetus promoted by political and social acronyms related to Christian communities in Iraq towards an aggregation ...
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  14 March 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "Since the end of Nigeria’s tragic civil war our citizenship has been subjected to more strain" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the end of Nigeria’s tragic civil war (1967-1970), at no other time in the history of our dear country has the issue of our common citizenship been subjected to more strain", say the Cath ...
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  9 March 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Serious loss for the Ethiopian Church: a tragic accident killed four religious sisters Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Ethiopia is mourning the deaths of four religious sisters of the Congregation of the Daughters of St. Anne who died in a car accident, a fifth is in a coma and two were critica ...