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  6 July 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - A fundraiser for the demining of the site of Christ’s Baptism has been launched Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The demining project of Qasr al-Yahud area, which extends around the west bank of the Jordan River, the site where many Christian traditions believe Jesus was baptized, will last two years and ...
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  6 July 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - NGOs to the government: "Protecting religious minorities from attacks by Buddhist nationalists" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – Need to take urgent measures to protect the most vulnerable religious minorities in the country: is the appeal launched by a forum of eleven NGOs working for the protection of human rights in M ...
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  5 July 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Porras: "An unacceptable situation, where are the State security organs?" Merida (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Merida, His Exc. Mgr. Baltazar Porras, has strongly condemned the attack on a group of seminarians which occurred on 1 July in Merida (see Fides 02/07/2016). "Everything seems t ...
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  5 July 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - In the Year of Mercy, the Sisters of St. Paul bring the Gospel to the suburbs Nagpur (Agenzia Fides) - "Reach out to the less privileged, to tell them that we recognize them as our brothers and sisters in Christ": in this spirit the Daughters of St. Paul in Nagpur in the Indian state of Maharashtr ...
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  5 July 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Alert about the high figures of child laborers in the capital Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of a recent round table set up by Mexican authorities for Child Labour Prevention, found that the phenomenon, which affects about 90,000 children in Mexico City, is particu ...
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  5 July 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Migrants stranded in Colombia for two months in an "inhumane and unbearable" situation Turbo (Agenzia Fides) - "Inhuman and unbearable": this is how the situation of migrants who are in the zone of Uraba (Antioquia, Colombia) has been described in the letter to President Juan Manuel Santos, signed by His E ...
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  5 July 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Bishops' appeal: Over six million people at risk of hunger Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Our hospitals are already reporting higher rates of malnutrition cases with the situation feared to worsen as we approach what we normally call the lean period" warn the Bishops of Malawi, in ...
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  5 July 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal: "My mission continues" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "I have reached the end of my mission as Patriarch, however my mission as a priest, friend and citizen continues": says the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Exc. Mgr. Fouad Twal, who has reac ...
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  5 July 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Massacres and tensions in North Kivu: perhaps to empty resource-rich territories? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the year, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seven reception centers for displaced persons have been closed and, for at least six of them, the reason is ...
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  4 July 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Dialogue with the Mapuche, the government asks Mgr. Vargas to intervene Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Chilean government is organizing an unprecedented dialogue meeting to address the Mapuche conflict in the area: this was confirmed to the local press by the Bishop of the Diocese of Temuco, H ...
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  4 July 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The appeal of the Apostolic Vicar of Chaco Paraguayo: "Live without violence and abuse" Chaco (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal "to non-violence and coexistence without abuse" was launched by His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, Apostolic Vicar of Chaco Paraguayo. The request came yesterday, after report ...
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  4 July 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "Brilliant Lessons": school education program for Shoe-shine children Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Guatemalan children working as a shoe-shine generally live far from any form of education, and remain without prospects for a different future. They cannot go to school because they a ...
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  4 July 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Bishops: forgiveness and mercy after the massacre Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Abandon all forms of violence to embrace forgiveness and mercy: this is what a message of the Catholic Bishops of Bangladesh say in the aftermath of the terrorist massacre on July 1 which killed 2 ...
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  4 July 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop of Tombura-Yambio: "Dialogue is the only path to peace: stop to inflammatory speeches" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Language is doing much more violence, sometimes even much more harm than the gun", said His Exc. Mgr. Edward Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio in South Sudan, while speaking to a United N ...
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  4 July 2016
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Kigali reacts to the accusations of Washington on the recruitment of Burundian refugees in armed groups Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - "A report politically motivated deliberately distorts reality". Thus the Ambassador of Rwanda in Washington, Mathilde Mukantabana, defined the annual US State Department report on human trafficki ...