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  8 August 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - CUAMM cheers with Africa in the Olympic Games Padova (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the Olympic Games 2016, Doctors with Africa Cuamm cheers for the people who every day they take care of. In particular CUAMM will follow the Olympic adventure of Tanzania, whic ...
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  8 August 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - We want a country at peace, prayer for the soldiers who will have to clean up the many landmine areas Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - During the commemoration of the 197 years of the national army, His Exc. Mgr. Fabio Suescun said that Colombians want a change towards a Colombia at peace, where children and farmers should be pr ...
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  8 August 2016
  ASIA/JAPAN - Ten days for Peace, Message from Bishops of Japan Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - In response to the strong "Appeal for Peace" at Hiroshima by Saint Pope John Paul II on February 25, 1981, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan designated the days from August 6 to 15 as "Ten ...
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  8 August 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Controversial message of Patriarch Tawadros against the protests promoted by groups of the Coptic diaspora Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The message with which Patriarch Tawadros II publicly expressed his opposition to the demonstrations promoted in the US by groups of the Coptic diaspora to protest against recent sectarian violenc ...
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  8 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - First intervention of the Camillian Disaster Service International in the area of Bihar Patna (Agenzia Fides) - "A tragedy foretold, this is how a journalist of News 18, defined the floods that hit in particular the Bihar region bordering Nepal. There is very little reliable news". Marco Iazzolino, internat ...
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  5 August 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Another church burned, for or against the Mapuche cause? Ercilla (Agenzia Fides) - A group of unidentified people attacked and burned a Catholic church in Pidima (Araucania, Chile), in the early hours of August 4 in the town of Ercilla. The church was completely destroyed, alt ...
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  5 August 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Caritas Lebanon reopens a Centre for refugee women Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A place to welcome, care for and accompany foreign women, who have often taken refuge in Lebanon and have been left alone or marginalized, with the risk of being victims of violence: this is the ...
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  5 August 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The hunt for albinos in Malawi caused by serious poverty originated by drought Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - More than 12 million people are at risk of hunger in southern Africa as reported by FAO (the UN food agency), due to drought caused by El Niño, a natural phenomenon originated by the warming w ...
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  5 August 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The army warns that it is ready to repress dissidence in the streets and on the web Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The army is ready to take to the streets to repress unrest and to combat "the detractors of our Country who use electronic means to mobilize the population to commit illegal activities". This is ...
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  5 August 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Do not kill": the Church's campaign against extrajudicial executions Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not kill" is the title of the campaign launched by the Catholic Church in the Philippines to promote respect for human life and deplore the long trail of extrajudicial executions in the count ...
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  4 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl converted to Islam by force escapes captors Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A deaf-mute Pakistani Christian girl was able to escape from a Muslim man who had kidnapped and forced her to convert to Islam and to Islamic marriage. Now, after the courageous act, the girl and ...
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  4 August 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Go and vote, despite the inappropriate conduct by Public Media" urges a Bishop Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "As Zambia goes to the poll on the 11th August, 2016 (feast of St. Clare of Assisi, ed.), we seek St. Clare’s intercession especially for those who are involved in various forms of media", says ...
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  4 August 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "National dialogue within the month of August in order not to worsen tensions" ask the Bishops Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Congolese political life is focused on the clash between President Joseph Kabila, who now seems determined to stay in office even after the expiry date of his second term, on December 20, a ...
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  4 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Bible studies teach forgiveness to believers of all religions in the Year of Mercy Nagpur (Agenzia Fides) – By attending and following the biblical study Course promoted during the Year of Mercy by "the Catholic Information Center" (CIC) in Nagpur (in central India) gave Sushma Suryawanshi, a Buddhis ...
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  3 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - More compensation for Christians, victims of the massacres Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Legal victory for the victims of anti-Christian massacres in Orissa: as Fides learns, the Supreme Court of India, that believe the compensation paid so far is "inadequate", ordered the gover ...