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  31 May 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Continual bombing in Nuba Mountains area, a Catholic school damaged” Bishop Gassis reports Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “The diocese denounces continual indiscriminate aerial bombing which kills and maims and instils a culture of fear and death among the people” says Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Emeritus bishop ...
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  31 May 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “In Catatumbo people are simply content to survive”, ”: testimony by Bishop Sánchez Cubillos Tibu (Agenzia Fides) – “Speaking about this part of our country for most people means speaking about an independent republic in a strategic position which has now become a headquarters for numerous outlawed groups ...
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  30 May 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Journalists released: the Church mediates, but tension remains high Ocaña (Agenzia Fides) - As soon as journalist Salud Hernandez Moro was released, on May 27, her first words were of appreciation and gratitude for the Catholic Church of Colombia. As news agencies reported, the Church, ...
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  30 May 2016
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni at the sending forth Mass of missionaries: evangelizing is to grow in faith Bucaramanga (Agenzia Fides) - "The mission to evangelize must be a constant encouragement not to be happy with mediocrity, but to continue to grow in faith" recommended Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregati ...
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  30 May 2016
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Drought and precarious sanitation exacerbate child malnutrition Chiulo (Agenzia Fides) - The severe drought which last year hit southern Angola continues to threaten the health of mothers and children. In 2015 in the only hospital in Chiulo, 19% of pediatric hospitalizations regarded ...
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  30 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Religious leaders: "Urgent political solutions to avoid the country plunging into violence" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The leading role of the two major political parties, especially the dispute around the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), is a threat to national peace, cohesion and unity ...
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  30 May 2016
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The precariousness of the structures penalizes children's education Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Educational programs aimed at children in Guatemala do not meet expectations. In many rural communities, in particular, there is only one school which often fails to cover the needs of al ...
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  30 May 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu nationalist leader helps Catholic nuns Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - Ashish Shelar, 41 Indian political leader, president of the Mumbai section of the "Bharatiya Janata Party", Hindu nationalist party in power in the Indian Federation, has initiated a project supp ...
• 30 May 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Resignation of the Bishop of Mutare, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 May 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Mutare (Zimbabwe), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Alexio Churu Muchabaiwa, in accordance w ...
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  30 May 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "More than 1.3 million Christians forced to flee from northern Nigeria", says a Bishop Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In northern Nigeria, between 2006 and 2014 an estimated 11,500 Christians were killed, over 1.3 million Christians displaced and 13,000 churches destroyed or abandoned. This assertion was made by ...
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  30 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Blasphemy on social networks: a Christian arrested, other five suspects Sheikhupura (Agenzia Fides) - Christian Usman Masih was arrested by the police in the village of Nabi Pura, near Sheikhupura, Punjab, on charges of blasphemy after a complaint was filed by some Muslims who accuse him of ...
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  30 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "As brothers we must respect each other": the diocese of San Cristóbal condemns the latest violence Chenalhó (Agenzia Fides) - "We regret there was no dialogue but violence and kidnapping. We regret they did not comply with the seat of the Diocesan Curia, as a place for the search for peace and justice", said the stat ...
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  28 May 2016
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the Missionary Congress: "Church of Colombia, share your faith, be a missionary Church which goes forth!" Bucaramanga (Agenzia Fides) - "Conscience and missionary responsibility of the particular Churches": is the theme of Cardinal Fernando Filoni’s report, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, hel ...
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  28 May 2016
  VATICAN - General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies begins May 30 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), begins on Monday, May 30 at the House of the Salesians, in Rome. The National Directors of the PMS from all continen ...
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  28 May 2016
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni urges a "return to what is essential, to the joyful witness of faith in charity" Bucaramanga (Agenzia Fides) - On the afternoon of Friday, May 27, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, presided over the Eucharistic celebration in the Cathedral in Buc ...