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  2 December 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Abou Khazen: five "representatives" of east Aleppo chosen to negotiate an agreement with the army Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "In the neighborhoods of Aleppo, still in rebel hands and jihadist groups, five representatives have been appointed who should negotiate a kind of agreement with the Syrian army. We hope and pray ...
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  2 December 2016
  VATICAN - Heroic virtues of Cardinal Guglielmo Massaja, among the greatest missionaries of the nineteenth century Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, 1 December, the Holy Father received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorized the Congregation to promulgate severa ...
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  2 December 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Sister Clara killed: she dedicated her life to improving the conditions of girls Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A Congolese religious of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Christ the King School, Sister Clara Agano Kahambu has been killed. The incident occurred in the early afternoon of 29 Nov ...
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  1 December 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops concerned due to the violence against the rights of citizens Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Nicaragua condemn the violent repression of the government against farmers, on 29 and 30 November (see Fides 30/11/2016), who were attacked by anti-riot police forces in New Guine ...
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  1 December 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Prayer for peace all over the country on the eve of the protest of extremist groups Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – To reaffirm peacefully the principles of tolerance, love, unity in diversity, acceptance of others, legality, peace: with this spirit, wearing red and white bands (Indonesia's national colors) ...
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  1 December 2016
  AFRICA - Fight against AIDS: challenge not only against the virus, but integral promotion of human development Kangemi (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people have a tremendous potential which unfortunately they are often not allowed to take advantage of". This is what Fr. Michael Lewis SJ, President of the Jesuit Superiors of Africa and ...
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  1 December 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - American Catholics have concretely been supporting the Latin American Pastoral care for 50 years Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The Subcommittee for the Church in Latin America of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) approved the granting of subsidies for 204 projects of evangelization and solidari ...
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  1 December 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Hundreds of dead in clashes between the army and "royal guards" of Rwenzururu Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation was handled in an irresponsible manner by both the Rwenzururu kingdom and by the government", said Fr. Timothy Ssemogerere, Executive Secretary of the Pastoral Liturgical Commissi ...
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  1 December 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Iraqi army involves sectarian militias in the protection of areas reclaimed from the jihadists of the Islamic State Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The areas in the Nineveh Plain, freed from the control of the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) by the Iraqi National Army, are subjected to a system of security and self-defense that also in ...
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  30 November 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Camillian missionary: "Every time we save a human life we give a sense to our life" Jérémie (Agenzia Fides) - After hurricane Matthew on the island of Haiti, and in particular the town of Jérémie, the collection of sending food and medicines to meet the emergency continues. This is what Father Anton ...
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  30 November 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - A priest and a newspaper against drugs which destroy the young Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - Father Mariano Oberlin carries out, together with the parents of children who have had serious problems with drugs, a constant struggle against this scourge that affects the city of Cordoba and ...
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  30 November 2016
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Fifty years of Gospel in Lae Lae (Agenzia Fides) - Fifty years ago the Gospel took root in Lae, the capital of Morobe province. As Fides learns, Catholics, other Christians and other religions celebrated the anniversary in a solemn ceremony in which ...
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  30 November 2016
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The latent conflict with RENAMO has so far caused 5,000 IDPs and 2,500 refugees in Malawi Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The political and military crisis has turned into a latent conflict.There are 5,000 internally displaced people in central Mozambique because of the political and military conflict between the RA ...
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  30 November 2016
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal Tong’s pastoral letter for Advent - Family and marriage: foundation of society Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us together ensure that family and Christian marriage is the starting point for charity" urges Cardinal John Tong Hon, Bishop of Hong Kong, in his Pastoral letter for Advent 2016 signed o ...
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  30 November 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian Parliament presents an interrogation on the expulsions of evangelical pastors Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The parliamentary of Armenian origin Selina Ozuzun Dogan, member of the Republican People's Party, addressed to Turkish minister of the interior Süleyman Soylu a Parliamentary interrogation on a ...