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  29 September 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Araucania Forum: solutions must directly come from the people of the region Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The forum "Todos somos Araucanía", an event organized by Sofofa (Sociedad de Fomento Fabril), an organization representing more than 4,000 companies, 38 associations and 23 Chilean trade union ...
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  29 September 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Children consume marijuana already at seven years of age Medellin (Agenzia Fides) - The consumption of drugs and drug dependancy are a fairly common phenomenon among the children of Medellin. 7-year-olds mainly consume marijuana in the department of Antioquia. What further agg ...
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  29 September 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Let's take care of our mother tongue": meeting of the indigenous pastoral Santa Fe (Agenzia Fides) - Teachers of ten indigenous peoples and also non-indigenous teachers took part in the XV Meeting of Indigenous Educators, which took place on 23, 24 and 25 September in the city of Avellaneda, S ...
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  29 September 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: Palestinian refugees have the "natural right" to return to their homeland Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) - The international recognition of the Palestinian State is an act which cannot be delayed if one really wants to favor the re-establishment of peace in the Middle East. And one must also support ...
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  29 September 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Rector of the Major Seminary of Tansi kidnapped Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Rector of Tansi Major Seminary, Fr. Emmanuel Dim has been kidnapped. This was reported by Fr. Hyginus Aghaulor, Director of Communication of the Diocese of Nnewi, in Anambra State in southeast ...
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  29 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists disrupt meetings among Christians Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A meeting on the Gospel was interrupted with violence and a stand with Bibles and Christian material were destroyed: is the latest violence perpetrated by Hindu extremists against Christians i ...
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  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Augustine" Major Seminary of Jos Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 8, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Mark Maigida Nzukwein, of the clergy of the Diocese of Jalingo as R ...
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  29 September 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two parables in modern version represented on stage to announce the Gospel of mercy Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - To represent two parables, revisited and updated in a new version, to announce the Gospel of mercy: is the initiative organized, among the events of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, by the Catechetica ...
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  29 September 2016
  EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN - President Ilham Aliyev: Islamophobia and xenophobia are the "new fascism" that threatens Europe Baku (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the visit of Pope Francis in Georgia and Azerbaijan (30 September-2 October) Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev denounced the risk of a resurgence of fascism in the heart of the Old Co ...
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  28 September 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Mgr. Mazzolari, a missionary in Sudan for 30 years Concesio (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary commitment and service of Mgr. Cesare Mazzolari (1937-2011), who spent 30 years of his life in sub- Saharan Africa, in Sudan, will be remembered thanks to a biographical exhibiti ...
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  28 September 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Nica Act" for Cardinal Brenes "the poor will be severly affected" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of last week, the US House of Representatives passed a bill, the "Nicaraguan Investment conditionality act", renamed "Nica Act", calling for economic sanctions against Daniel Or ...
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  EUROPE/ENGLAND AND WALES - Appointment of National Director of the PMS, Fr. Anthony Chantry MHM Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 17, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Anthony Chantry, of the Mill Hill Missionaries - St. Joseph’s ...
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  28 September 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Farc's child soldiers start new life after peace deal Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – As part of a deal to end Colombia’s 52-year civil war, (see Fides 27/09/2016) the Farc freed 13 child soldiers from their ranks, turning them over to the International Committee of the Red Cr ...
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  28 September 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bishop Shomali: "Peres man of peace. In Israel there is a need for men like him" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "We have lost a great man. A man of inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue. A man of peace. Let us pray because in Israel, especially now, there is a need for men like him". This is how B ...
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  28 September 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops: "Government subsidies to enable the poor to have access to higher education" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope for a realistic plan of making it possible for the poor and working class families to have access to higher education after the year 2017", say the Catholic Bishops of South Africa ...