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  19 December 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A new law will change the access to information in the Country Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Sri Lanka’s upcoming 69th independence commemorations, which will be celebrated on February 4, will be of special value to the island’s media, if the new law on the Right to Information (RTI ...
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  19 December 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Superior General of the Xaverian Missionaries has passed away Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday, December 18, at about 4.30 in the morning, the Superior General of the Xaverian Missionaries (Pious Society of St. Francis Xavier for Foreign Missions), Father Luigi Menegazzo pa ...
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  19 December 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - After three years 2,000 displaced leave San Salvatore parish thanks to Caritas Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - About 2,000 displaced people, who had been welcomed in San Salvatore parish, in the 2nd district of Bangui return home after three years. Don Paternal Zolo, vicar of San Salvatore parish, said t ...
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  19 December 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Immaculate Mary and St. Ambrose: models of authenticity of the Catholic academic research Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Mary Immaculate and St. Ambrose, Doctor of the Church, are the two models of authentic inner purity, of the search for truth and of the Catholic academic research without prejudices or personal ...
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  17 December 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The tribal become entrepreneurs thanks to a nun Kohima (Agenzia Fides) - Farmers, artisans, merchants: Garo tribals in the Indian state of Nagaland in northeast India, have become entrepreneurs and have improved their standard of life dealing with cultivation, process ...
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  17 December 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - FARC register themselves as a political party. No Vatican "mediation" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In Bogota, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) continue the road taken to transform itself into a political party in 2017, and have registered themselves at the National Electoral C ...
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  17 December 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Baez: "To change the culture of power for the power of culture" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "To change the culture of power for the power of culture": this is how we can summarize the message of the Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, Silvio José Báez Ortega, in his speech at the Human Righ ...
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  17 December 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch to other Churches: let us not proceed in a random order. Let us be united as "Christian member" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The emergency situation that the entire Iraqi nation is facing also calls Christians not to proceed in a random order, emphasizing in an exasperated manner the identity factors of each ecclesial ...
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  16 December 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Going to school for two-thirds of children is a danger to their safety Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In Honduras one third of today’s generation of school-goers can access a secure educational space. The general violence that the country lives obliges families to decide whether to hide th ...
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  16 December 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christmas without the Muslims in Mindanao: a step back Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - "In some parts of the Philippines, especially in Mindanao, some Muslim leaders have discouraged their followers to join the Christians for the Christmas celebrations. This is an alarming sign. ...
• 16 December 2016
  OCEANIA/TAHITI - Appointment of the Archbishop of Papeete Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 December 2016 the Holy Father appointed Fr. Jean-Pierre Cottanceau, SS.CC., currently Apostolic Administrator of the same ecclesiastical circumscription as Archbishop of Papeete in Ta ...
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  16 December 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A video shows a child rummaging in the garbage looking for food Villaflores (Agenzia Fides) - The video that shows a street child seeking food from a garbage has caused great indignation among the citizens of the municipality of Villaflores, Chiapas, Mexico. The video, filmed by a pa ...
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  16 December 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - Elections: for the Bishops "Ghana proves to be a beacon of democracy" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "The outcome of the elections is a victory for Ghana and not just for any particular political party. Let us therefore rekindle the spirit of national unity and move Ghana our beloved country forw ...
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  16 December 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Fasting and prayer: may 2017 be the Year of Peace Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time to join - all religions, all ethnic groups - to truly make 2017 the Year of Peace. Peace is possible through justice. Peace is possible through negotiations. We urge all religions to ...
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  16 December 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - East Aleppo, a cease-fire deal to allow evacuation of rebels. The Catholic hospital director: we welcome the wounded and the sick of neighborhoods that were under the rebels Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - A cease-fire deal to allow evacuation of rebels and tens of thousands of civilians from eastern Aleppo up to the harvesting areas located near the border with Turkey is back on. Syrian official s ...