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  26 October 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Ecumenical prayer for the liberation of Mosul. The Chaldean Patriarch: may 2017 be the "Year of Peace in Iraq" Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - 2017 as "Year of Peace", celebrated by the Churches and the Christian communities in Iraq to promote national reconciliation and to save the country from the centrifugal forces that may continue t ...
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  26 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Pope Francis invites Christian leaders of South Sudan to discuss the crisis Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has invited Christian religious leaders of South Sudan to the Vatican to discuss the serious crisis that the youngest African State is facing. This was revealed by His Exc. Mgr. Paoli ...
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  25 October 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - First agreement between government and opposition: dialogue begins, the Church as mediator Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, said that the dialogue that will begin between the government and the opposition "is very good", and reported that the envoy of the Vatica ...
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  25 October 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Children forced to leave school to work and help their families San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - The lack of resources in families living in San Pedro Sula, in Honduras, is forcing children living in suburb areas of the city to leave school to look for work. A study carried out by th ...
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  25 October 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - After the hurricane the risk of exploitation and abuse against women and children increase Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Women and children in Haiti are at high risk of sexual exploitation and trafficking as a result of the hurricane. According to humanitarian agencies, since October 4, thousands of women a ...
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  25 October 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Terrorist attack in Quetta: "one lives with fear", says a missionary Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - "Ambulances and police continue to occupy the city. 60 people were killed and more than 200 wounded. They were all police officers and young people who were being trained in the military school. ...
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  25 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops ask "the government to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We have noted with sadness the decision by the South African government to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC)", say the South African Bishops in a statement signed by His ...
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  25 October 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Inauguration of the new Major Seminary in Cancun Cancun (Agenzia Fides) – The Major Seminary of Quintana Roo was inaugurated yesterday by His Exc. Mgr. Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cardenas, Bishop of the Prelature of Cancún-Chetumal, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo in ...
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  25 October 2016
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Even a Xaverian missionary among the 79 who died in the train crash Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - There is also an Italian Xaverian missionary, Father Carlo Girola, of the Pious Society of St. Francis Xavier for Foreign Missions, among the victims in the train accident on October 21 on the Y ...
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  25 October 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - On October 27 the peace process with ELN begins, the Church ready to give its support Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The formal start of the peace process between the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) will take place on Thursday, October 27 in Quito (Ecuador). For this occasion, the Co ...
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  25 October 2016
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Blogger arrestati: appello per il rilascio Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - La scorsa settimana la blogger vietnamita Nguyen Ngoc Quynh è stata arrestata con l'accusa di "propaganda" contro lo Stato. Il governo sostiene anche che la donna sia affiliata a un gruppo defin ...
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  24 October 2016
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: "Today is a time of mission and a time of courage!" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Before reciting the midday Angelus with the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square, Sunday, October 23, the Holy Father stressed the celebration of World Mission Sunday, commenting on the ...
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  24 October 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Mass at the border for migrants, the number of Haitians increases in Nogales Arizona (Agenzia Fides) - "The economic migrant is not a criminal. The economic migrant is someone looking for a decent way of life for himself, for his family", said His Exc. Mgr. Gerald Frederick Kicanas, Bishop of the ...
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  24 October 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Missionary market" of the small community of Adaba Adaba (Agenzia Fides) - "The 'missionary market' is becoming a tradition that Catholics of the small community of Adaba, Ethiopia, organize to collect offerings in favor of the missionaries on the occasion of World Missi ...
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  24 October 2016
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - After 50 years of presence in the Country, the newly Camillian Province has been established Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 16 October in Ouagadougou the 50th anniversary of the presence of Camillians (M.I.) in Burkina Faso together with the canonical establishment of the New Camillian Province of the C ...