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  4 July 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Laudato Sì is inspiring for young Catholics Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – To assume the encyclical of Pope Francis "Laudato Sì" as "magna carta" for a respectful way of life and attentive towards the weak, the poor, care for creation: is what emerged from the recent ...
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  2 July 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Mgr. Baltazar Porras: Attack on students and seminarians: "This violence disqualifies the government" Mérida (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday afternoon, July 1, a group of violent (presumably one of the gangs that is trying to take control of the city) attacked a group of students who were going to school, among whom there w ...
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  2 July 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Catholic Bishops of the new Apostolic Administrator: "Working together to build bridges of dialogue" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "For 12 years you have animated the friars of the Holy Land Custody and taken care of the ecumenical relations with Greek Orthodox and Armenian Orthodox Patriarchates. Your fraternal friendshi ...
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  2 July 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic priest killed on the anniversary of the beginning of the uprising against former President Morsi Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A Coptic priest, Fr. Rafael Moussa, was killed in Al Arish in the north of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, in an attack claimed by the local branch of the Islamic State. The murder took place on June 30, ...
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  2 July 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Terrorism in the country, the PMS Director: "We are afraid" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "After the attack in Dhaka, we are very concerned about the growth of terrorism. These terrorist acts are damaging the country and its image abroad. The situation we are experiencing is really dif ...
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  2 July 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The Church is with you", says the Bishop of Garissa to refugees Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Dear migrants and refugees, never lose the hope that you too are facing a more secure future, that on your journey you will encounter an outstretched hand, and that you can experience fraternal ...
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  1 July 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Immigration Reform: not a political issue, but defense of human rights Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - "Now we need a global immigration reform. It is not a political issue, it is a matter of human rights and protection of human dignity": are the words of His Exc. Mgr. José Gomez, Archbishop ...
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  1 July 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Former Vietnamese refugee new Bishop of Parramatta Parramatta (Agenzia Fides) - "I have made many leaps of faith in my life" said His Exc. Mgr. Vincent Long Van Nguyen, who fled Vietnam in 1975 among the "boat people" who fled the country on makeshift boats to Australia. ...
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  1 July 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The newly appointed Bishop of San Carlos visits the hospital and encourages staff and volunteers San Carlos (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of the terrible emergency situation in Venezuela, particularly in hospitals (see Fides 21/06/2016), His Exc. Mgr. Polito Rodríguez Méndez, Bishop of the new diocese of San Carlo ...
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  1 July 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Campaign on tolerance for over 250,000 children San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - A campaign has just been launched, throughout the country, on tolerance which will involve 1,391 educational centers for seven weeks, among them 193 are in San Pedro Sula. The slogan is " ...
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  1 July 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Municipal elections: the Bishops call for "an ethical leadership, being a politician can be a noble Christian vocation" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We need mayors and councillors who have genuine concern for the economic and other hardships that our citizens are enduring" said the pastoral Letter of the Southern African Bishops on the ...
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  1 July 2016
  ASIA - For 35 years the JRS on a mission for refugees in Asia-Pacific Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - For 35 years the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) has been active in the Asia-Pacific area to assist refugees and displaced persons in seven countries: Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guin ...
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  1 July 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Father Apollinaire Malumalu has died, organizer of the first free elections in the DRC Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "A shocking news that troubles us strongly. The death of Father Malumalu is one of the greatest difficulties that the DRC has to overcome. It is a catastrophe, and a great loss for the entire n ...
• 30 June 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Awasa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 June 2016 the Holy appointed Fr. Roberto Bergamaschi, S.D.B. as Apostolic Vicar of Awasa (Ethiopia), assigning him the titular see of Ambia. The new Apostolic Vicar was born in San ...
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  30 June 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa Savino: impossible to deny the serious crisis and prevent the arrival of food and medicine Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "It is impossible to deny the serious crisis and prevent the arrival of food and medicine from other parts of the world, sent by various non-governmental organizations and Church organizations s ...