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  10 January 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Official of Iraqi Kurdistan: at least 100 places of worship destroyed or damaged by jihadists in the Nineveh Plain Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - At least 100 places of worship have been vandalized or completely demolished in the territories of Mosul and Nineveh Province since June 2014, when the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) impos ...
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  10 January 2017
  AFRICA/GAMBIA - Pressure on President Jammeh so that he cedes power, "but no use of force", says the Bishop of Ziguinchor Banjoul (Agenzia Fides) - The West African Countries are intensifying the pressure so that outgoing President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, cedes power on January 19 after losing the elections on December 1, won by Adama Barr ...
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  10 January 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Thousands of "special" children need medical treatment and rehabilitation Sangmelima (Agenzia Fides) - Cameroon is one of the African countries with the highest incidence of disability in children. According to UNICEF estimates, 23% of people aged between 2 and 9 live with at least one type of ...
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  10 January 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The rate of malnutrition regarding children and the elderly increase because of the crisis Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - A study of the Central University of Venezuela estimates that in 2017 the rate of malnutrition regarding school-age children will increase by 3% compared to 2016, and will reach between 350 and ...
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  10 January 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The "House of Fatwa": it is legitimate for Christians to build churches in an Islamic State Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The "House of Fatwa" (Dar al Ifta al Misryah), the Egyptian body presided by the Grand Mufti of Egypt and responsible for disseminating guidance pronouncements and dissolve doubts and disputes reg ...
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  10 January 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The report of UN experts on the DRC receives praise from a local NGO Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A new report by the UN Panel of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was applauded by an NGO of North Kivu, the eastern province of the DRC, where there are illegal activities deno ...
• 9 January 2017
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Resignation of Bishop of Chimoio, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 2, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Chimoio, Mozambique, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Francisco João Silota, M. Afr. Th ...
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  9 January 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The laying of the foundation stone of the Indonesian Camillian Theologate in Maumere Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "It seems incredible ... but the Indonesian Camillians are in urgent need of new spaces for their young religious and novices", says to Agenzia Fides Father Luigi Galvani, MI, missionary in Flor ...
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  9 January 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Still no news after the disappearance of Father Joaquin Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) – There is still no news of the priest who went missing last week in Mexico: the diocese of Saltillo, Coahuila (Mexico), informs in a statement that the priest, Joaquin Hernandez Sifuentes has ...
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  9 January 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Archdiocese of Manila strengthens the commitment for the rehabilitation of drug addicts Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, signed an agreement which establishes a partnership between the Archdiocese of Manila and "Fazenda da Esperança" ("Farm of Hope"), a specia ...
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  9 January 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian neighborhood of Mosul freed. Chaldean priest: not all refugees will return Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, January 8 the Iraqi regular army regained control of al Sukkar, an area in eastern Mosul once inhabited mostly by Christian families. This is what local sources reported to online magaz ...
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  9 January 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The situation in prisons: a time bomb that could explode at any time Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - "Talking about prisons means talking about a factory of torture, which produces violence and creates monsters. It is a stressful environment and barbarism is constant," says Father Valdir João S ...
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  9 January 2017
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The rebellion of the military has subsided, but a climate of violence remains, as denounced by the Church Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Calm has returned in the Ivory Coast where the military in revolt had caused panic in several cities of the Country including the economic capital, Abidjan. The revolt started from Bouake, the s ...
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  9 January 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President al Sisi: I will build the largest church in the nation Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - It will be the largest Coptic Church of Egypt, it will be inaugurated by 2018 in the new capital which is being built on the margin of Cairo's metropolis, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Si ...
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  9 January 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Presidential pardon for political prisoners" requested by the Archbishop of Juba Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "I ask the President to pardon and forgive all political prisoners as well as others arrested for minor offenses, other who may have been arrested because of rumors mongering and propagandaI" asked ...