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  10 October 2016
  AFRICA/MAURITIUS - "My appointment as Cardinal is an encouragement to our Church", said Mgr. Piat Port-Louis (Agenzia Fides) - "My appointment as Cardinal is an encouragement that the Pope gives to our Church of Mauritius in the Year of Mercy: an encouragement to continue to welcome this mercy which makes us feel goo ...
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  8 October 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Church and state together to create "peace zones", free of drugs Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the midst of a campaign that sees organizations of civil society, in the Philippines and abroad, denounce extrajudicial executions carried out by police and paramilitary groups against traffic ...
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  8 October 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Hurricane Matthew: 800 dead but the toll is getting worse by the hour Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "We are still waiting for news of our confreres in Jérémie. Until today (October 7th ed) we have no news. And there is no way to contact or visit them" writes to Fides Fr. Kenol Chery, ...
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  8 October 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Church greets the new Nobel Peace Prize: President Santos Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - After the news of the Nobel Peace Prize 2016 awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro, Archbishop of Tunja and President of the Colombian Epis ...
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  8 October 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - "It is time for Catholics and Anglicans to join hands to fight the social ills of Ghana" says Anglican Primate of the Province of West Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time for the Anglican Church of Ghana and the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference to join hands to fight poverty, child trafficking, climate change and other social ills eating into the fab ...
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  8 October 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Massacre of Mandera: the police claim to have "vital clues" on the reason and the perpetrators Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are following crucial leads that would unearth those behind the attack", said Mandera County Commissioner Fredrick Shisia, in northeast Kenya, where on 6 October six people were killed, thr ...
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  8 October 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Threats to a Christian NGO that defends cases of "digital blasphemy" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) The Pakistani NGO Christian-inspired "The Voice", led by lawyer Christian Aneeqa Maria Anthony has received threats in the course of legal proceedings related to a case of blasphemy. This is the ca ...
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  7 October 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Hurricane Matthew: 300 deaths in Haiti alone, the testimony of a missionary Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Haiti worsens after Hurricane Matthew in the Caribbean has killed 283 people so far, according to the Haitian Ministry of Interior, but the figure is provisional and defi ...
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  7 October 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The children of Aleppo call for peace. The Chaldean Bishop: Western information manipulated Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - There were several hundred children of Aleppo, Christians and Muslims, who yesterday, Thursday, October 6, gathered to pray and sing for peace to return in Syria. The gathering was held in the l ...
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  7 October 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Thirty thousand people will be evicted, Mgr. Bambaren calls for dialogue Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - Through a letter published on social networks, the Bishop Emeritus of Chimbote, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Bambarén Gastelumendi, calls for dialogue and has spoken out against the possible evacuation ...
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  7 October 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The massacre in Mandera is part of a long sequence of blood", says the Bishop of Garissa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Once again workers from other parts of Kenya were hit, in a terrorist attack which recalls other attacks committed by the Shabaab in the area, whose victims have always been foreign workers. Th ...
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  7 October 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Supreme Court hearing for Asia Bibi Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The Supreme Court hearing for the case of Asia Bibi, the Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy is scheduled for next October 13. The judgement at first instance was upheld by the ...
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  7 October 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Inmate accused of the New Year massacre in the church of Alexandria released from prison Alexandria (Agenzia Fides) - He was released from prison accused of having planned and carried out the attack on New Year's Eve 2011 at the Coptic church of Saints Mark and Peter in Alexandria, Egypt, which caused 23 dea ...
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  7 October 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church is a community of mercy, also on the web Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) - The "e-conference" mainly discussed the global phenomenon of migration recently organized by the Broken Bay Institute, in the eponymous Australian dioceses, an institute specialized in online c ...
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  7 October 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Death of Msgr. Anthony Xu Jiwei, prudent and zealous Pastor At 11:16 pm on Sunday, September 25, 2016, His Exc. Msgr. Anthony Xu Jiwei, Bishop of Linhai (Taichow), in Zhejiang Province (Mainland China) passed away. He was 81 years old: he had been suffering from various health pr ...