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  9 March 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Young people of all religions united against all forms of radicalism and intolerance Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - Over 3,000 young people from different religious communities gathered in Semarang, capital of Central Java province, to attend an interreligious meeting, committing themselves to "develop an in ...
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  9 March 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Presidential ballot: Mgr. Cabrera calls for respect and dialogue Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not enough to win the elections, it is important to know how to rule. This requires certain attitudes such as closeness, listening and service, regardless of our political or religious ...
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  9 March 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Continental Meeting of National Directors: analysis of the reality and the functioning of the PMS Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The thirteenth Continental Meeting of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of America is taking place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It started on March 6, w ...
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  9 March 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The chapel of the Ascension, on the top of the Mount of Olives, damaged in an arson attack Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday, March 8th, the chapel of the Ascension, located at the top of the Mount of Olives, was damaged in an arson attack. According to the media of the Custody of the Holy Land, in all ...
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  9 March 2017
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - 80,000 people affected by the worst drought in 40 years Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - About one million people urgently need food aid and tens of thousands need urgent life-saving aid due to the drought that is severely hitting Sri Lanka. The alarm emerges from a statement of the ...
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  9 March 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - English-speaking areas without the Internet for 50 days to try to block the protest for bilingualism Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - English-speaking regions of Cameroon (in the north-west and south-west of the country), have now been without the internet for 50 days which is causing serious inconvenience to the local popula ...
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  9 March 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch at the forum on post-conflict: let us copy the distinction between politics and religion from the West Sulaymaniyah (Agenzia Fides) - When Mosul will be completely taken away from the jihadists of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, and the Iraqi people will be faced with the difficult task to reconstruct a torn political, ...
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  8 March 2017
  INDONESIA - Saudi king meets with religious leaders and praises tolerance and coexistence Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We shared aspirations and hopes with the Saudi king. This meeting is symbolic and very important": said to Fides Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo, after the Interreligious meeting organized by the G ...
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  8 March 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Bastres Florence’s message: "Woman, Star of Chile" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "A society which recognizes itself as modern and democratic must recognize the right of all women in order to allow them to contribute to the public and political life of our country, and to cr ...
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  8 March 2017
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Women of Mission: Catholic Mission for Women's Day Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) - Among the many initiatives under way for International Women's Day, Catholic Mission in Brisbane has organized an event for its supporters during which stories of missionary women and their ext ...
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  8 March 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Trump: no "selective reception" reserved for Christian refugees Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The executive order on immigration signed by US President Donald Trump in late January, and intended to suspend the entry into the United States of refugees from seven countries with a Muslim ...
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  8 March 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - The consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: a blessing for the Ghanaian nation Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "I bring the Pope’s greetings, his Apostolic Blessing and his fervent wish that your nation continues to move forward in peace and stability, on a path of development that may become a model of ...
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  8 March 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - CELAM and the Executive Secretaries of the Bishops' Conferences gathered in Bogota Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - From 7 to 9 March the annual meeting of CELAM (Latin American Episcopal Council) with the secretaries-general of the 22 countries of Latin America and the Episcopal Conferences Caribbean takes pl ...
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  8 March 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The House approves the death penalty: the Church "in mourning" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Philippine Catholic Church is "in mourning" after the House of Representatives approved the re-imposition of capital punishment in the nation. On March 7, 217 to 54 with one abstention, lawm ...
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  7 March 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: corruption is a "social leprosy" Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - "The state of corruption, ethical degradation, political feudalism that the country is suffering from, the prioritization of personal and sectarian interests is hindering the enhancement of the ...