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  3 August 2016
  AMERICA - Argentina and Brazil have announced they do not support Venezuela as the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Crisis within Mercosur after Uruguay left the temporary presidency of the Common Market of South America on 29 July. The chair transfer should have taken place with Uruguay, handing the presi ...
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  3 August 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - "No to street drugs": Christian and Muslim leaders united against illegal drugs Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Religious Christians and Muslims together to raise awareness in Senegal on the risks of counterfeit drugs for sale on the streets of the Country. The interfaith initiative is part of the national ...
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  3 August 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christians threatened in Jolo: it is urgent to start from "mercy" Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - One Christian was killed and others are threatened by radical Islamic groups in Jolo, a small island in the southern Philippines. This is what the missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Fo ...
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  3 August 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Political tension worsens - the main opposition leader: "within three months Kabila out of the Palace" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in the Democratic Republic of Congo worsens after a supporter of the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS) was killed by a military last night, August 2, in Kinshasa, t ...
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  2 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - New cases of "blasphemy" against Christians and Hindus Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - New cases of "blasphemy" against religious minorities in Pakistan: as Agenzia Fides learns, at least four Christians were charged for alleged blasphemy against Islam in Punjab province last month ...
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  2 August 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Do not ignore our tragedy otherwise the tide of refugees reaching Europe's shores could be swelled" says a Bishop Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "If South Sudan is ignored, the tide of refugees reaching Europe’s shores could be swelled" says His Exc. Mgr. Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura- Yambio and President of the Inter ...
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  2 August 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Missionary animation and formation, meeting of the PMS of Bolivarian countries La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "A week to strengthen the communion in missionary animation and together do formation", said Sister Cilenia Rojas, National Coordinator of the PMS in Bolivia, in presenting the meeting among the ...
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  2 August 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The President of the Episcopal Conference: "The lack of moral values fuels the ills of the Country" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Injustices, corruption, violence, acts of terror and destruction of property and the current wave of arson and unrest in some Kenyan schools are problems fuelled by a lack of moral values. Thi ...
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  2 August 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 40 years after Mgr. Angelelli’s death: "Always listen to the people and the Gospel" La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of faithful from all over the Country and the world filled the chapel dedicated to "Monsignor Enrique Angelelli", in order to attend mass celebrated 40 years after the murder of Bisho ...
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  1 August 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - WYD 2019: from Krakow to Panama the first American diocese Panama City (Agenzia Fides) – On hearing Pope Francis announce that Panama has been chosen to host the next World Youth Day in 2019, the Bishops of that local Church were overwhelmed with joy, certain that their c ...
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  1 August 2016
  AMERICA/SURINAME - Redemptorist fathers in Suriname: 150 years of mission special concern for slaves Paramaribo (Agenzia Fides) – Today, 1 August 2016, the feast day of Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, marks a mission anniversary: 150 years of the service of the Redemptorist Fathers (the Congregation of the Mo ...
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  1 August 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic Bishops concerned about wave of school burning at the hands of pupils Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Are there persons inciting Kenyan school pupils to burn schools? This is the concern expressed by Bishop Maurice Muhatia Makumba, Bishop of Nakuru and Chairman of the Kenyan Conference of Cathol ...
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  1 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian pastor brutally murdered by Maoist rebels Godavari (Agenzia Fides) - India’s Christians have denounced the brutal murder of an innocent Christian pastor: on 29 July Pastor Yohan Maraiah was mercilessly beaten to death in the east Godavari district, of Ind ...
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  1 August 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “We must not become a country where the killing of political candidates is seen as a normal event” Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)-“We are deeply saddened to see that after 22 years of democracy, politically motivated killings, a shameful reminder of a painful past, are again being committed” said Bishop Abel G ...
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  1 August 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Franciscans: mercy and forgiveness in these times of conflict Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - "May this centenary help us experience a little healthy shame because no one appears to want to do anything to put peace and concord in the conflicting reality in which we live and may it hel ...