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  14 December 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - "More controls and better road signs" ask the Bishops after 40 people died following the road accident in Naivasha Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Be committed to saving lives and not to see an opportunity to make quick money through bribery and extortion". This is the appeal launched by the Bishops of Kenya to the officials responsible ...
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  14 December 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Christian governor stands trial: a test for democracy in Indonesia Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian governor of Jakarta shed tears yesterday, 13 December during the hearing in court, on the first day of the trial in which he is accused of blasphemy. The trial will continue with t ...
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  13 December 2016
  VATICAN - Death of Mgr. Irigoyen, a life to spread the knowledge of the missions Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr Jesus Irigiyen Urtasun died in the early afternoon of Saturday, December 3, on the feast of St. Francis Xavier, Patron of the Missions, to whom he was particularly devoted. He had dedic ...
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  13 December 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Two priests ordained in Orissa, in the district of the anti-Christian massacres Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Kandhmal district in the Indian state of Orissa, which was the scene of the anti-Christian massacres of 2008, welcomed two new priests at the end of the Jubilee Year. As reported to Fides, m ...
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  13 December 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Casa Alianza: 15,000 children live on the streets and in shopping malls Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In Honduras about 15 thousand boys and girls live on the streets, in shopping malls and on the streets of the main cities of the Country. This is what the NGO Casa Alianza denounces, which a ...
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  13 December 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: "our martyrs bind us to Heaven" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "Our martyrs, and the act of martyrdom in itself, bind us to heaven, and make our hearts rise up to those who are already there, and from there they intercede for us". This is how Coptic Orthodo ...
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  13 December 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The prison, from death trap to a place of hope, thanks to a missionary initiative Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Prison in Zomba, a death trap", is the headline in the Sunday Times on December 4, 2016. "For years this prison is part of the history of Malawi. Built in 1937 in what was a kind of refugee ca ...
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  13 December 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Casa Hogar Karike for poor and vulnerable children Chihuahua (Agenzia Fides) - The Casa Hogar Karike was opened five years ago thanks to the generosity of a lady who welcomed three poor and abandoned children in her house. Since then visitors have increased and the needs ...
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  13 December 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Solidarity Network for Migrants and Refugees: "we do not ask for privileges but specific policies" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The XII National Meeting of the Solidarity Network for Migrants and Refugees (RedeMir) took place at the Cultural Center of Brasilia (CCB). The event (from December 5 to 7) was promoted by Migr ...
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  13 December 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the anxiety in the heart for many immigrants Pittsburgh (Agenzia Fides) - Dozens of children lined the main aisle of St. Paul's Cathedral in Oakland-Pittsburgh, wearing the native dress of Latin America and holding up flags of their countries, accompanied by the so ...
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  13 December 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bishops to the government: "We urgently need a moratorium on the death penalty" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Indonesian Bishops have officially asked the government for a moratorium on the death penalty. As reported to Fides by Fr. Paulus Christian Siswantoko, executive secretary of the Commission ...
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  12 December 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church celebrates its new martyrs; Also the President at the commemoration for the victims Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi is also present at the commemorations which take place this morning to honor the victims of the attack perpetrated yesterday, Sunday, December 11, during the M ...
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  12 December 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The opposition: "the mediation of Bishops proceeds well" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The negotiations under the auspices of the Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) "proceed well" says the ''Union of the political and social forces for change", better known as "le Rassemblemen ...
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  12 December 2016
  ASIA/LAOS - Laos has its first martyrs Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - Historic Step for the Catholic Church in Laos where yesterday December 11, the solemn liturgy of beatification of 17 new martyrs, including missionaries and lay Laotians was held in the Cathed ...
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  12 December 2016
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The "bacha posh": little girls dressed as boys to avoid early marriages with adults Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - Afghan families who want to protect their underage girls from early marriages are having to decide whether to hide their sex to avoid grown men to marry them. Parents who choose not to be groped b ...