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  11 October 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: the liberation of Mosul must not become the occasion to dismember the Iraqi unity Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - While there are multiplying warnings of an imminent attack to free the city of Mosul from the domain of the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh), Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis I Sako recall a ...
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  11 October 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - International Day of the Girl Child: alarm on early marriages Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Marriage and early pregnancy are the main obstacles affecting the development of minors. The United Nations report that in Mexico there are over 19 million children and adolescents who make ...
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  11 October 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Reintroducing death penalty is a false solution to crime Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Death penalty does not solve the problem of crime. It is a false hope": says, in a note sent to Fides, the Commission for the prison ministry of the Episcopal Conference of the Philippines, urgi ...
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  11 October 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Onaiyekan: Corrupt judges arrested: "We need a clear and transparent trial to dispel fears of anti-democratic maneuvers" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "This case is a very clear demonstration of the confused situation our Country is experiencing" says to Agenzia Fides Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, commenting on the arrest on char ...
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  11 October 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Newly-elected Cardinal Porrai Cardozo: "It is not a personal award, but a recognition of our Church and Venezuelan society" Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Mérida, His Exc. Mgr. Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, is one of the 17 new cardinals appointed by Pope Francis on 9 October. "Union Radio" has sent Fides a first comment of M ...
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  11 October 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Christian Parties demand a new electoral law Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - In the continuing institutional impasse that characterizes the Lebanese political scene, recent hypotheses to overcome the paralysis and revitalize Parliament by resorting to a "law of necessity" ...
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  11 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - About 700 deaths in 120 attacks in two years in the Territory of Beni Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - About 700 civilians have been killed in 120 massacres since October 2014 in the Territory of Beni, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, says Human Rights Watch report. The human ...
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  10 October 2016
  VATICAN - Among the new Cardinals, 6 are Archbishops in mission territories Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the Angelus yesterday, Sunday, October 9, the Holy Father Francis announced the creation of 13 new Cardinals. A Consistory will be held on the 19 of November. They also include an Archbi ...
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  10 October 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Treatment and prevention of malaria: commitment of Catholic structures on the island of Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Indonesia is one of the countries with the highest percentage of cases of malaria. In 2015, the 'ratio' of the disease was 5 per thousand. This means that 5 people out of a thousand were positi ...
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  10 October 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Tijuana opens parishes to Haitian migrants Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - "I am talking to priests, so that in the shortest possible time, some parishes can be equipped as places to welcome Haitians, and must in fact welcome them in worthy places" said the Archbishop ...
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  10 October 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Hurricane emergency: people with disabilities are the most vulnerable Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Humanitarian emergency in Haiti, the most serious in the country after the 2010 earthquake. Hurricane Matthew, which on October 4 hit the island with torrential rains and winds, has devas ...
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  10 October 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Eleven Christian TV channels declared "illegal": attack on religious freedom Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A recent order issued by the "Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority", a body of the Pakistani government, declared 11 Christian television channels broadcasting in Pakistan in Urdu illeg ...
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  10 October 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Education, Family and Mercy": Catholic education conference Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The fifth Catholic Education Congress on the theme: "Education, Family and Mercy" concluded in Santiago. An important aspect of this event was the variety of conferences that were held. A confe ...
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  10 October 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Disputes between Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds on the release and the future control of Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The preliminary phases to the military assault for the liberation of Mosul from jihadists of the Islamic State (Desh), sees the increase of political, geopolitical and sectarian disputes about the ...
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  10 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Let us commit ourselves, as Catholics, to fight crime and violence" urges a priest Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The latest crime statistics in South Africa describe a worrying upward trend of violent crimes, and therefore as Catholics we need to translate our commitment into active participation to ...