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  21 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Catholic minister: "Stop to honor killing in Pakistan" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Honor killing is the worst form of example of brutality and bestiality in Pakistani society. The killing of a child by the mother or father is the desecration of the sacred bond of motherhood an ...
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  21 June 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops: No to sectarian partition plans in the Middle East Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - It is necessary to stop the dismemberment sectarian plans with which some international circles think they can resolve conflicts, redrawing the boundaries of the Middle Eastern Countries, beginn ...
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  21 June 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The economic crisis in this country has exploded into a public health emergency Barcelona (Agenzia Fides) - The economic crisis in this country has exploded into a public health emergency, claiming the lives of untold numbers of Venezuelans, and there are chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenou ...
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  21 June 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Reconciliation meeting in Zarqa in the church damaged during a fight Zarqa (Agenzia Fides) - A reconciliation meeting among the inhabitants of the neighborhood and the effective work done by many of them to repair the damage, put an end to the story of the Greek Catholic church in Zarqa, ...
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  21 June 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - One among thousands of Haitian immigrants carried the Olympic torch Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - Five years after leaving Haiti and beginning a new life in northern Brazil, Abdias Dolce carried the Olympic Torch through the streets of Manaus on Sunday, June 19, thus representing, as he said, ...
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  21 June 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Nsukka: "Let us forgive our enemies, but the government has to protect us" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Never in the history of our community have we witnessed anything similar. And we pray and hope that never again shall we witness any tragedy close to this one in magnitude", said His Exc. Mgr. Go ...
• 20 June 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Livingstone, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 18 June 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Livingstone (Zambia), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Raymond Mpezele, in accordance with ...
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  20 June 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - A project to strengthen the fight against child labor Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of child labor in the agricultural sector continues to be one of the emergencies in the Country. Thanks to an initiative promoted by the local Labor Ministry, the Project "Semilla" h ...
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  20 June 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Three people killed in a suicide attack, Patriarch Ignatius Ephraim II escapes the bombing Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - Three people were killed by a suicide attack yesterday during a religious meeting organized in Qamishli in northern Syria, to commemorate the "Assyrian genocideof 1915, by the Ottoman army. Acc ...
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  20 June 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The first concern of the Church is peace", recalls the Apostolic Nuncio Guanare (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in Venezuela, His Exc. Mgr. Aldo Giordano, stressed that it is the duty of the Church to seek dialogue in the country, a dialogue for peace and to meet the needs of the popu ...
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  20 June 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishops: "It is time to work for the reconstruction of the country" t Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Now is not the time for recriminations. Now is the time for the government and all citizens to work together for the future. Do not indulge in destructive criticism; instead roll up your sleeves a ...
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  20 June 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The worst forms of clandestine child labor registered in Latin America Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Guatemala, with 850 thousand 937 child laborers and 43% of children who do not attend school, has the highest rate of child labor in Latin America, according to information sent to Fides. ...
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  20 June 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Caritas: poverty, development and climate justice on the political agenda Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Work towards development and put the poor "at the center of the political agenda": is the appeal of Caritas Philippines and of a group of about 30 religious and civil organizations to newly ele ...
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  20 June 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - New threats to the village of Ngaoudaye, where a Capuchin mission was ransacked Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The MPC-RJ armed group has not returned to base near Paoua after the attack on Ngaoudaye, but withdrawn in Kollo, a village on the border with Chad" refer Church sources to Agenzia Fides. Fight ...
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  20 June 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Verification for the November ballot begins Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua, called on citizens with the right to vote in the upcoming elections in November, to see if their names appear on the electoral roll. According to ...