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  6 March 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Lenten seminar: "Seek the Kingdom of God and the good of the peoples" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Seek first the Kingdom of God" is the title of the Lenten seminar organized recently by the Diocesan Catechetical Centre in Karachi at Saint Patrick College. As Fides learns, the event, organiz ...
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  4 March 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Even the Red Crescent provides assistance to the Copts fleeing from northern Sinai Ismailia (Agenzia Fides) - Local volunteers of the Red Crescent are among the groups engaged in offering aid and reception to Coptic Egyptians who fled from al Arish and northern Sinai, following a series of killings in ...
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  4 March 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The "Mother Teresa of Burma" takes care of AIDS patients Yangon (Myanmar) – They all call her the "Mother Teresa of Burma": Sister Marta Mya Thwe, a religious of the Congregation of St. Joseph of the Apparition (SJA), is tirelessly committed to taking care of people with AID ...
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  4 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Mendoza condemns the killing of a journalist: "They want to silence the voice of the people" Chilpancingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, Mgr. Salvador Rangel Mendoza, condemned the murder of the journalist, Cecilio Pineda Birto which took place in Ciudad Altamirano, Tierra C ...
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  4 March 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Missionaries, models of the Church that goes forth, Spanish-American Day: Latin America awaits you! Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Missionaries are models of the Church that goes forth", proposes Cardinal Marc Ouellet, president of the Pontifical Council for Latin America in his message on the occasion of the Spanish-Americ ...
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  4 March 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Letter of Apostolic Administrator Pizzaballa: We made mistakes concerning the University of Madaba Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Lent is "a new beginning, a path leading to the certain goal of Easter, Christ’s victory over death". Even the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in this delicate moment of its history, is cal ...
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  3 March 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Calm, prudence and dialogue regarding the Constitution" ask the Bishops Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "Our country is going through a worrying situation of political and social conflict. The conflict is exacerbated by the risk of a confrontation and fragmentation of society, caused by the legal ...
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  3 March 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bioethics and Pastoral Care of the sick: new and difficult issues that affect human life Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "During his recent visit to the Camillian mission in Flores, Father Leo Pessini, Superior General of the Camillians (MI), held a series of lectures on Bioethics and pastoral care of the sick", s ...
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  3 March 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Restoration of the Edicule of the Holy Sepulchre to be completed before Easter Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - After nine months of works the restoration of the Edicule of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is about to end. The media linked to the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land inform that the scaffo ...
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  3 March 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The slavery of Rohingya girls Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Last October, the Burmese Army carried out a military operation in the State of Rajine, North Myanmar, following an attack on a border post in the region which caused the death of nine agents. Si ...
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  3 March 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - Carry out conversion with charitable works: the Lenten journey of the continental Catholic community Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - True conversion is realized through the works of charity towards each other, as taught by Pope Francis in his Lenten message, "Scripture is a gift. Other persons are a gift", is how Catholics in ...
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  3 March 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Mgr. Ochoa denounces: "Young people are becoming the protagonists of criminal acts" Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - Drug use, verified by the high percentage of local drug trafficking involving the younger generation, is just one of many realities that worries the Catholic Church of Cucuta: "What one lives her ...
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  3 March 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Lenten Campaign: "Tribalism and corruption threaten the Country; The Beatitudes are the way to a better Country" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Tribalism and corruption undermine the peace and stability of the Kenyan nation", warned His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Korir, Bishop of Eldoret and President of the Bishops' Commission for Justice an ...
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  3 March 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian President al Sisi meets the Chaldean and Maronite Patriarchs: let us establish the principle of citizenship in all Arab countries Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders, in the current historical phase, have a key role in spreading in all Arab countries, the principle of citizenship, and reject false interpretations of Holy Books and religious t ...
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  3 March 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Violations of religious freedom increase Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Violence against religious communities and religious freedom abuses increased in Indonesia in 2016: says the Report on Religious Freedom in Indonesia 2016, carried out and just published by the ...