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  10 November 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The civil society of North Kivu to the UN: "Strengthen the Blue Helmets to do away with the armed groups" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - An attack on the Indian Blue Helmets of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) resulted in the death of a 7-year-old and the injury of 34 people. The explosion of a hand ...
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  10 November 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Justice for the Christian couple burned alive for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the terrible murder of the Christian couple Shama and Shahzad, burned alive for alleged blasphemy on November 4, 2014 in Kot Radha Kishan, in Kasur district, the fight for justice ...
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  9 November 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias: "The hospital for the terminally ill is a monument to mercy" Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "The hospital that takes care of the terminally ill and cancer patients is a monument to mercy": this is what Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Mumbai said during his visit to the "Shanti Av ...
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  9 November 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Violence in the North of Santander increases, the denunciation of the Bishop Cúcuta (Agenzia Fides) - The popular protest for the abduction of Maria Gloria Contreras, 61, kidnapped while she was in her house, in the town of Chinacota in the north of Santander increases by the hour. "Kidnapping i ...
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  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Shendam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On November 5, 2016, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Philip Davou Dung, Priest, Member of the College of Consultors and Treasurer of the Archdiocese of Jos as Bishop of the Diocese of Shen ...
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  9 November 2016
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Young people conclude the Jubilee: say yes to Christ Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The young people of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands conclude the Holy Year with a gathering in which they renew their commitment to follow and to choose Christ in their lives, in the s ...
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  9 November 2016
  AMERICA/CANADA - Assisted suicide could also kill Catholic healthcare Vancouver (Agenzia Fides) - There is growing tension in health care centers in the region of Ontario, only months after the Canadian Parliament approved legal assisted suicide, Catholic hospitals, palliative care centers ...
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  9 November 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Caritas launches a program to assist refugees and local families in northern Uganda Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - More than three thousand South Sudanese families and local refugees are assisted by a Caritas Uganda program in Yumbe district. The program, which lasts one year, is aimed at improving food secu ...
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  9 November 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop of Embu: "No to political propaganda from the pulpits and no to vote-buying" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - No to political propaganda from the pulpits of the churches. This was stated by His Exc. Mgr. Paul Njiru Kariuki, Bishop of Embu, Kenya, in a pastoral exhortation sent to the priests and faithfu ...
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  9 November 2016
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the seminarians in Lusaka: "do not be afraid to follow Jesus" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - As part of his pastoral visit to Zambia, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, yesterday morning, November 8, dedicated his time at the Seminars ...
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  8 November 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - No to nuclear energy: the Church applauds president Duterte Manila (Agenzia Fides) - No to nuclear power in the Philippines: the position of President Rodrigo Duterte, who has rejected to revive the nuclear power plant in Bataan province (west of Manila) and assured that during h ...
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  8 November 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Plenary Assembly of Bishops: "Poverty, drug trafficking and reconciliation" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to thank God for the year we are about to conclude. We have witnessed a series of events that make the history of the Church in Argentina and have enriched the lives of our communi ...
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  8 November 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Unity and Mercy, the closing of the Jubilee in a suffering country Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Chibly Langlois, Bishop of Les Cayes, along with the other Bishops of Haiti, celebrated the closing of the Jubilee of Mercy last Sunday, November 6, with the participation of a l ...
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  8 November 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The mission of the Rachel Center: To welcome and take care of migrant children Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - It is a structure that wants to witness the commitment and contribution of Catholic faithful with regards to the issue of immigration, which has tragic social consequences, especially for chil ...
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  8 November 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Inauguration of the first hospital in the mountains of Chaone, it will assist 10 thousand people Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "November 3 will become a benchmark for the 21 villages and the 10,000 people living in the mountain who as from today will have the possibility of health care assistance at home, able to defea ...