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  30 November 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops announce three days of prayer for the victims of sexual abuse Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask forgiveness for ourselves and for our clergy for having not done enough in recognising the physical, emotional and psychological pain and trauma which many victims of sexual abuse h ...
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  30 November 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The trial for the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti is moving slowly Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-terrorism Military Court in Islamabad issued a forced subpoena for seven witnesses who did not present themselves in the trial for the murder of Catholic minister Shahbaz Bhatti, kill ...
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  30 November 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Still protests for the inter-oceanic canal: the police ward off protesters Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Police warded off hundreds of peasants with rubber bullets and gas, who from the south of Nicaragua were trying to reach the capital last night to attend a demonstration of the opposition with r ...
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  29 November 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - For 10 years a helping hand to women forced into prostitution Seville (Agenzia Fides) - "Al Alba", the reception and support center for women in Seville, is ten years old and has welcomed 2,107 women. The center works according to the objectives that led to the foundation of the Ob ...
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  29 November 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The opposition opens to the mediation of Bishops and makes important concessions to the majority Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We encourage the steps taken by CENCO (National Episcopal Conference of Congo) to open the way for true dialogue among the sons and daughters of the Country to avoid the worst", said Jean-Marc ...
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  29 November 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian jihadists accused of their involvement in the massacre of Copts killed in Libya Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian justice has accused some compatriots of being in touch with Islamic State jihadists (Daesh) and involved in the massacre of 21 Egyptian Copts killed in Libya in the winter of 2015 (se ...
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  29 November 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Millions of children orphaned due to conflict and exploitation Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Millions of children orphaned, victims of violence have continued to rise in Goma since 1994. The complaint comes from the "En Avant Les Enfants" center INUKA. According INUKA, more than 4 million ...
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  29 November 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Venezuela Caritas: no response on medicines still blocked at customs Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Still no response from the authorities to Caritas Venezuela on medicines sent from abroad to assist cases of emergencies. The director of Caritas Venezuela, Yaneth Marquez, yesterday said to Uni ...
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  29 November 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Catholic church of Santa Chiara under construction: threats by Islamic radicals Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We will burn the church if the shipyard continues the work": with this threat more than 500 Muslims protested in Bekasi, a vast suburb of the metrolpolis Jakarta, to prevent the construction of ...
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  29 November 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - No trial for the authors of the threats to the Armenian newspaper Agos Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The two militants of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organization responsible for threats and intimidation regarding the newspaper Agos, the bilingual Armenian weekly published in Istanbul, were ...
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  28 November 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishop of Nogales denounces: "Migrants as bargaining chips" Nogales (Agenzia Fides) - "Migrants are seen as bargaining chips when they enter Mexico for transit", said the Bishop of the Diocese of Nogales, His Exc. Mgr. José Leopoldo González González, "this is how they appear ...
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  28 November 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The feast of Our Lady of Caacupé dedicated to young people Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - More than 7,000 young people arrived in Caacupé this weekend for the great feast of Our Lady of Caacupé, to the shrine dedicated to her. The celebrations, which begin today and extend through ...
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  28 November 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Fr. Andrea Santoro: man, believer, a pastor and a witness of the Gospel Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "What happened a decade ago on February 5th in Trabzon church moved and wounded beyond the confines of the Diocese of Rome and the Vicariate of Anatolia in Turkey, but it is a wound from which spir ...
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  28 November 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The apostolate is oriented towards national reconciliation Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka supports the "steps of reconciliation" initiated by the national government after the civil war: is what was said to Fides by Bishop Harold Anthony Perera, who h ...
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  28 November 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Proposals of 60 adolescents for sustainable development and the overcoming of child poverty Lima (Agenzia Fides) - A group formed by 60 adolescents from 11 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean presented a set of proposals for the achievement of Sustainable Development Objectives in 2030 and the overcomi ...