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  15 September 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian refugees in Ankawa participate en masse in the celebration of the Holy Cross Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The week of liturgical and community celebrations on the occasion of the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Ankawa, a predominantly Christian suburb in Erbil, ended on Tuesday, September ...
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  15 September 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The Country threatened by a locust plague Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Another scourge is affecting the populations of North Kordofan and North Darfur. Swarms of locusts are infesting the fields and are endangering crops. This is what mainly farmers of the invaded ...
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  15 September 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Apostolic Vicar of Napo: "The spread of drugs among the very young is a big challenge" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The serious problem of drug use which is widespread among the young has become a big challenge" says His Exc. Mgr. Adelio Pasqualotto, C.S.I., Apostolic Vicar of Napo, Ecuador, who is in Rome for ...
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  15 September 2016
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Coadjutor of Tripoli: "Migrants have a distorted vision of Europe instilled by traffickers" Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Tripoli is generally calm but occasionally clashes break out among the various militias that have divided the control of the city. These things do not happen often; skirmishes ...
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  15 September 2016
  ASIA/NEPAL - The Apostolic Vicar: "99% of the earthquake victims we help are not Catholics" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very busy with earthquake victims: the Church did everything it could do with regards to the first phase of humanitarian assistance and relief, which ended today. A year and a half ...
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  15 September 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - New sectarian clashes in Minya; Coptic Bishop visits the wounded Minya (Agenzia Fides) - New tensions and sectarian clashes have affected the province of Minya in Upper Egypt. Yet another violent incident occurred in the village of Assem, 250 kilometers south of Cairo, on September 1 ...
• 14 September 2016
  AFRICA/CHAD - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saint Luc" Theological major Seminary in Bakara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 9, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Dominique Tinoudji, of the clergy of the diocese of Moundou as Recto ...
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  14 September 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Basic Ecclesial Communities in America: after 50 years the need to relaunch them according to the signs of time Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The X Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Basic Ecclesial Communities (CEB) opened yesterday, September 13, in Luque in Paraguay. The delegates of the CEB across the continent will par ...
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  14 September 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Appeal of the Chaldean Patriarch: help us to demine the Nineveh Plain Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - In these days the media evoke "the preparations for the battle of Mosul" and once again, the need to launch a "great humanitarian project" begins in order to revive the city and the entire region, ...
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  14 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian Church in the forefront to tackle poverty and hunger Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in India is at the forefront to tackle poverty and hunger: said Franciscan Fr. Nithya Sagayam, OFM Cap, speaking at a national Seminar on the theme of "answers to hunger and extreme ...
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  14 September 2016
  AFRICA/GABON - The Pope's appeal for Gabon has had strong echo in the Country", says the Bishop of Port Gentil Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Father's appeal for Gabon was greeted with great joy by the people", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Euzébius Chinekezy Ogbonna Managwu, Bishop of Port Gentil, who is in Rome f ...
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  14 September 2016
  VATICAN CITY - Father Jacques is part of the chain of Christian martyrs which began with Jesus Christ Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The first Christians professed their faith in Jesus, paying with their own lives. This history is repeated daily today, all over", said Pope Francis during the Mass celebrated this morning ...
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  14 September 2016
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - President Nazarbayev decrees the creation of the Ministry for Religious Affairs Astana (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has recently signed the decree ordering the establishment of a Ministry for religious and civil affairs. The text of the decree, published on the ...
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  14 September 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The number of children with cancer increases Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - There are 400,000 children suffering from cancer in Sudan. This was stated in a note sent to Agenzia Fides, by the General Coordinator of the Pediatric Hospital of Oncology in Khartoum. The cas ...
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  14 September 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO - Cooperatives to empower disabled children Pointe-Noire (Agenzia Fides) - In Pointe-Noire, the second largest city in the Republic of Congo, about 500 kilometers from the capital Brazzaville, it is estimated there are at least 7,000 disabled children out of a pop ...