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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop Travas: "Communion and dialogue in South Punjab, infested by Islamic militants" Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "The small Catholic community in the south of Punjab province lives communion and promotes dialogue in a society where the influence of Islamic militants and violent groups is felt": says Bishop ...
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  3 October 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar will organize an international conference on peace with the participation of Eastern Churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamic University of Al Azhar will organize in early 2017, in cooperation with the Muslim Council of Elders, an international Conference on peace, coexistence and interreligious dialogue, whi ...
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  3 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Electoral Commission announces the postponement of the presidential and legislative elections to 2018 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Presidential and legislative elections in November 2018. This is what was announced by the President of the Independent Electoral Commission (CENI), Corneille Naanga, to the participants in the ...
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  3 October 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "No" wins in the referendum on peace agreements Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Colombians have rejected the peace agreement between the Colombian government and FARC in a historic referendum that sought to put an end to 52 years of armed conflict. According to information ...
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  3 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Restructuring of the Somali intelligence; Turkey announces the opening of its first base in the Country Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - 1,500 officers and intelligence agents in Somalia have been dismissed, including the head-center of the capital, Mogadishu. This was decided by General Abdullahi Gafow, according to whom the d ...
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  3 October 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Patriarchs of the Syro-Antiochene Churches ask for the "Syriac" ethnicity to be recognized and included in the Iraqi Constitution Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The two Primates of the Syro-Antiochene Churches - Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II and Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Youssif III - have signed and sent a letter to the highest r ...
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  30 September 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Diocesan Directors of the PMS in Poland: pilgrims to the tomb of Blessed Paolo Manna Ducenta (Agenzia Fides) - In the year of the centenary of the Pontifical Missionary Union, founded by Blessed Father Paolo Manna (PIME) in 1916, the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Polan ...
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  30 September 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Pro abortion protesters deface a mural, the door of the Cathedral and the Bishopric Neuquén (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 September some feminist organizations, a union of women and a women's political movement, held a demonstration in the streets in the city of Neuquen calling for the decriminalization of a ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Camillians open the first novitiate on the island of Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "July 14, 2016 marked a historic moment for the Indonesian Camillian Mission: the official opening of the novitiate in Maumere, island of Flores, with the first two novices". The is what Father ...
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  30 September 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - CIMI denounces violence against the Indigenous in Minas Gerais, a missionary threatened Minas Gerais (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) denounces and condemns the attack of 23 September by farmers (fazendeiros) and gunmen against Xakriabá indigenous communities of Vargem Grande, in ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Murderers of the three Christians in Malatya convicted, but no prison for now Malatya (Agenzia Fides) - Nine years after the killing of three Christians slaughtered in the southeastern Turkish city of Malatya, the Criminal Court sentenced five Turkish, accused of being the perpetrators of the trip ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Inclusion and quality in education policy: the proposals of religious minorities New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Religious minorities in India, in particular Christians and Muslims, invite the federal government not to "saffronize education", by imposing a new education policy with particular focus on cu ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Eight Jesuits, new priests, at work in the sign of mercy Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Eight new Vietnamese priests of the Society of Jesus have been ordained and have already been engaged in pastoral work in the country. The ordination celebration, held on August 25 in H ...
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  30 September 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Chemical weapons used in Darfur? "Investigations need to be carried out", says an expert to Fides Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Between 200 and 250 people, mostly children, were killed in the course of several chemical attacks launched by the Sudanese armed forces in Sudan. This was denounced in a report by Amnesty Inte ...
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  30 September 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Rector of the Major Seminary of Tansi released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Emmanuel Dim, Rector of the Major Seminary of Tansi, who had been kidnapped on September 26 (see Fides 29/09/2016) has been released. This was announced by the Chancellor of the Diocese of Awk ...