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  13 July 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - 45 million Thais invited to vote for the draft of the new Constitution Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - On August 7, about 45 million Thai people will be invited to express their consent on the draft of the new Constitution approved in January 2016. "Everywhere you see huge posters, billboards, an ...
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  13 July 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic schools, the beating heart of the nation Naga City (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic schools are essential to the mission of the Church in the Philippines and represent the beating heart of the nation: is what was stated by the general assembly of the Association of C ...
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  13 July 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Hopes for the permanent reopening of the border with Venezuela Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - As reported in a note sent to Fides, last Sunday about 35,000 Venezuelans in San Antonio del Táchira crossed the Simon Bolivar international bridge heading for the Colombian city of Cucuta, to ...
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  13 July 2016
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Palestinian President Abu Mazen gives the Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal the "Medal of Jerusalem" Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the end of his mission at the head of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, emeritus Patriarch Fouad Twal was honoured by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with the "Medal of ...
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  13 July 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bro Argese, "water missionary", publicly thanked the Diocese of Meru Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank the Consolata missionaries for giving us Bro Argese to work in Meru for all these years. They gave us education, water, hospitals and they put up the diocese and supported us so that t ...
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  12 July 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Education is the driving force of integral development": dialogue between teachers and government begins Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas, His Exc. Mgr. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, said that "true education reform should not only be in the field of labor and management, but sh ...
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  12 July 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Cuamm launches an appeal to the local institutions: "cease fire as soon as possible" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after NGO Doctors with Africa Cuamm had remembered the fifth anniversary of the independence of the youngest State in the world, (see Fides 08/07/2016) violent clashes in Juba between th ...
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  12 July 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Thousands of displaced people in churches, humanitarian emergency in Juba after the end of the fighting Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Calm has returned to Juba, capital of South Sudan, devastated by days of fighting (see Fides 11/07/2016), after President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar declared ceasefire last nig ...
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  12 July 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - At World Youth Day in Krakow young Iraqis will pray the 'Our Father' in Aramaic before the Pope Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - There will be more than two hundred young Iraqi Christians who from all the dioceses of the Country will participate in the forthcoming World Youth Day (WYD), to be held in Krakow in late July. ...
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  12 July 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "Forgive us" say the Bengali people after the massacre in Dhaka Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - In the place in Dhaka, where terrorists on July 1 killed 22 people, someone brought flowers, including an unnamed wreath, with two words on the ribbon: "Forgive us". "I think that it expresses the ...
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  12 July 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The leader of the protest movement, Baptist pastor Evan Mawarire has been arrested Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The leader of popular protests in Zimbabwe has been charged with inciting public disorder as authorities move to break up a wave of opposition in the unstable southern African state. Evan Mawarir ...
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  12 July 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy via WhatsApp: Christian arrested, risk of "collective punishment" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Digital blasphemy" is gaining ground in Pakistan. According to Fides sources complaints of blasphemy that record the alleged crime of insulting Islam or Prophet Muhammad committed on the web or ...
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  12 July 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - "I am a facilitator of dialogue, nothing more", says Mgr. Vargas Bastidas Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the criticisms that have emerged in recent days, with regards to the dialogue table which has begun in Araucanía to address various problems of the area, the Bishop of Temuco, His Exc. M ...
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  11 July 2016
  ASIA - Female Infanticide: China and India still at the top of the list New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - China and India are among the countries at the top of the world rankings for female infanticide: says the latest report released by the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), the first global s ...
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  11 July 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Stop to corruption!": triennium in the hands of the youth begins Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Paraguay is asking young people to be leaders in the next three years, in order to fight corruption. This challenge, as the Bishop of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo, His ...