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  29 December 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Peace process continues: the measure for amnesty approved Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian parliament approved yesterday, Wednesday, 28 December, a bill for the amnesty of the FARC members (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces). This is not however a general amnesty, sin ...
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  29 December 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - New Jesuit university in New Town Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) – The West Bengal Assembly has recently approved a 2016 draft law of the Saint Xavier University of Calcutta, thus paving the way for the creation of a new university in New Town, Rajarhat, to ...
• 29 December 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Purwokerto Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 December 2016, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Purwokerto, Indonesia, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Julianus Kemo Sunarko, S.I. (S ...
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  28 December 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Cucuta: "To provide humanitarian aid to Venezuelans in difficulty" Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Cucuta in Colombia, His Exc. Mgr. Víctor Manuel Ochoa Cadavid, urged the state authorities to provide humanitarian aid to the Venezuelan people, remembering that Ven ...
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  28 December 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - To live the holidays with faith means to fight against child labor Salvador de Bahía (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Salvador, through the Pastoral of Tourism (Pastur), has launched the project "Verano con Fe" (Summer with Faith), which involves the realization of different activi ...
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  28 December 2016
  AMERICA/TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - Violence, drugs and weapons: Christian churches concerned for the murders and social ills Port of Spain (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a lot of anger in the country along with an excessive amount of drugs and weapons which are easily available": This is the concern of the Archbishop of Port of Spain, His Exc. Mg ...
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  28 December 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Christmas between consumerism and street children Oaxaca City (Agenzia Fides) - For street children there is no "Christmas dinner", no gifts. They live marginalized, in the cold, under bridges, they have no family and are exploited. Unlike many children who spend these ...
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  28 December 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A missionary from Bangui:"Schools and construction sites are the hope for the future" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in the Country remains precarious, particularly in some cities. However, in the capital, at least in the last two months, there have been no particular clashes", writes Fr. Federic ...
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  28 December 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "The agreement is within reach", announces Mgr. Utembi who mediates between the majority and opposition Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We have reached the end of the tunnel. What remains to be done is to review the text. The agreement is there, within reach", said His Exc. Mgr. Marcel Utembi Tapa, Archbishop of Kisangani and ...
• 28 December 2016
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Resignation of the Bishop of Mbalmayo, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 December 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Mbalmayo, Cameroon, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Adalbert Ndzana. The Holy Father a ...
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  22 December 2016
  EUROPE/GERMANY - "Star Singers" together for creation and for children affected by climate change Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - For the 59th time, in the days leading up to January 6th, the "Star Singers" (Sternsinger) of the Holy Childhood Association in Germany will be on the country’s street-corners singing Christmas ...
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  22 December 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians in Orissa seek protection for Christmas Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before Christmas, the Christians of Kandhamal district in the Indian state of Orissa, the epicenter of anti-Christian massacres of 2008, call for a Christmas in peace and free fro ...
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  22 December 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - New version of the website of the Church of Cuba Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In order to continue to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ and spread the pastoral action of the pilgrim Church on the largest island of the Antilles, a new website of the Conference of Catho ...
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  22 December 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Fun activity campaign to remove child workers from the road Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - For the entire month of December a series of activities that provide fun initiatives against child labor, with the objective of removing children from the street, was carried out in Bogota. Accor ...
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  21 December 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Drugs among the new forms of poverty to be addressed urgently Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to help those who have fallen to get up and prevent others who are vulnerable to fall ... We will never be able to replace families, but as a Church, we are the family of God, and ...