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  31 August 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "Long live the Cross and the Crescent": the Egyptian Parliament approves the law on the construction of churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Egypt’s parliament approved on Tuesday, August 30, a landmark law on the construction of churches, still the subject of harsh criticism from observers and groups belonging to the Egyptian Chri ...
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  31 August 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The religious call to fight drug trafficking without summary justice Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "In the last two months we have seen a steady increase in the number of extrajudicial executions, which has now reached about a thousand, and the count continues. Most of these deaths are related ...
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  31 August 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Encounter with the Lord in mercy and solidarity with the Italian earthquake victims Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The encounter with the Lord in mercy and charity; the prayer for the Italian earthquake victims, for children and young people who return to school, for evangelization and for those who h ...
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  31 August 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - In Yei, hundreds of young people devastated by the violence and say "no to tribalism" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A no to tribalism and violence comes from Yei, the city of Equatoria, South Sudan, which was hit by a wave of murders and massacres attributed to mixed military-civilian armed groups that target su ...
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  31 August 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Demonstration on 1 September: for the Bishops it is a right to be respected Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On September 1 a demonstration has been announced with a march and other political activities, in order to promote a collection of signatures for the referendum against President Nicolas Maduro. ...
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  31 August 2016
  AFRICA/GUINEA - The number of Guineans who seek to enter the US from Mexico increases Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - The US border authorities have in recent months registered an increase of emigrants of the Republic of Guinea who try to enter through the land border with Mexico. The phenomenon is related to t ...
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  31 August 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Greece calls for Ankara to offer an apology for the "Greek-Pontic Genocide" Athens (Agenzia Fides) - The Greek people "will continue their battle until Turkey recognizes the Pontic genocide and offers a sincere apology for the crimes committed by their ancestors". This is what in recent days the ...
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  30 August 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Scalabrinians: more effective responses to global mass migration Jundial (Agenzia Fides) - Since yesterday until Saturday, September 3, forty Scalabrinian Missionaries (Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo) engaged in the reception of migrants and refugees in ...
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  30 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - UN Commission: repeal the blasphemy law Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has called on Pakistan to repeal the blasphemy law. In the periodic report on the country, released on August 26 and sent to Fides, th ...
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  30 August 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Young man arrested for the murder of Father Santoro freed ahead of time Trabzon (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish 26-year-old Oguzhan Ayudin, who was convicted in 2006 to 18 years and 10 months in prison for having killed Catholic Italian priest Andrea Santoro, was released a few days ago far ah ...
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  30 August 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Indigenous Peoples, subject of the New Evangelization Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Open a space for reflection and dialogue in order to unite the efforts that are being made at the service of indigenous peoples so that they become "subjects of the New Evangelization": this ...
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  30 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Day of the Martyrs of Orissa: Church and civil society seek justice Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A thorough and independent investigation of the police and the judiciary; adequate compensation that include Churches and humanitarian organizations; prosecute government officials and polic ...
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  30 August 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Wave of killings against civilians in Yei: for the Bishop "heinous actions and unspeakable crimes" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Heinous actions and unspeakable crimes". This is how Mgr. Erkolano Lodu Tombe, Bishop of Yei, in Southern Sudan, condemned the wave of killings against the inhabitants of the city and surrounding ...
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  30 August 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Monastery will make a film on Pope Shenouda III Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Monastery of Anba Bishoy, founded by Saint Bishoy in the fourth century A.D. in Wadi al-Natrun (one hundred kilometers north of Cairo), will make a film on Pope Shenouda III, the Patr ...
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  30 August 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Protest march authorized by the Supreme Court violently repressed; Police accused Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The violent repression of opposition demonstrations by Zimbabwean police has been criticized by several humanitarian organizations. On Friday, August 26 a protest demonstration organized by 18 op ...