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  18 June 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The City of Joy welcomes mistreated orphans and vulnerable children Monze (Agenzia Fides) - The Health Desk of Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC) has rescued some orphaned and venerable children in Monze Diocese who were being abused by adults. The girls are among the 20 Orphaned and Vuln ...
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  18 June 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Violence in the Mapuche region: church burned and attack on police Araucania (Agenzia Fides) – At dawn on Friday 17 a fire destroyed a church located in the town of Collipulli in the Araucania region. The facts reported to Fides are very serious because there was a firefight in the ar ...
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  18 June 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Practices of witchcraft and sorcery to cure diseases Mzuzu (Agenzia Fides) - It is hard to imagine the power that sorcerers in Africa still have, said one of the organization's representatives of Under The Same Sun (UTSS), a charitable organisation that promotes the well-b ...
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  18 June 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Church's response to the scourge of drugs, reflection at the National Eucharistic Congress Tucuman (Agenzia Fides) - The area of Social Pastoral and Lay people, one of the thirteen that has divided the work of the XI National Eucharistic Congress which takes place in the city of San Miguel de Tucuman (Argentin ...
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  18 June 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The Claretians engaged in solidarity with flood victims Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Religious Claretians in Sri Lanka are actively engaged in helping victims of the floods that hit the country last May, leaving massive damage to persons, houses, facilities. The Major Superior o ...
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  18 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Police Violence against Christians Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Pakistan are abused also by the police. On Sunday, June 12 police officer Amir Abdullah raided the Protestant Christian Church in Fazalia district, Lahore, and hit and humiliated Pa ...
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  17 June 2016
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Religious leaders call for the approval of new laws to save Puerto Rico San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders of Puerto Rico and the United States met yesterday, and meetings also continue today, with US Senators to urge them to support the legislation of the debt restructuring of Pue ...
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  17 June 2016
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Severe drought forces the population to eat seeds Bekily (Agenzia Fides) - Malagasy farmers are in a desperate situation due to the severe drought that is hitting seven districts in the southern part of Madagascar, where at least a million people lack enough food in the ...
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  17 June 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assad receives the Patriarch and six Syrian Catholic Bishops: "the President is planning a totally new secular Constitution" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian President Bashar Assad is planning a new Constitution for the nation led by him, to ensure equal rights for all citizens and eliminate discrimination toward religious minorities. These a ...
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  17 June 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Tension rises, the Bishops call for dialogue Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - There is growing political tension in Uganda, where some soldiers were arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow President Yoweri Museveni. On June 13, police authorities announced that they ...
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  17 June 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Humanitarian projects in favor of refugees and displaced in Lebanon, Thailand and Egypt Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - In the world, to date, just over 59 million people have been forced to leave their countries of origin mainly because of wars and internal conflicts. 19 and a half million are refugees, 38 millio ...
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  17 June 2016
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Strong condemnation of the murderous violence Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Asunción, His Exc. Mgr. Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid, S.D.B., in a brief interview to a local radio station, spoke of the murder of the businessman and alleged drug tr ...
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  17 June 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A missionary: "Armed gangs are reforming again; we hope in the intervention of the Blue Helmets" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in Bozoum there are no problems, I know that there have been more in the north", says to Agenzia Fides, Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, Carmelite, parish priest in Bozoum, in the northwest of the Cent ...
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  17 June 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians join the fasting of Ramadan. Chaldean Patriarch: weapons kill, prayer and fasting for peace work miracles Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Today, many Christians in Iraq at the invitation of the Chaldean Patriarchate, join the fasting observed by their Muslim fellow citizens during the holy month of Ramadan. The initiative, propo ...
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  16 June 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic communities in the footsteps of the Apostle Barnabas Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - The liturgical feasts of the Apostles are in particular felt by the Chinese Catholics, who choose such occasions for many initiatives related to evangelization and pastoral commitment, th ...