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  24 May 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Today the funeral of Sister Veronika Teresia Rackova Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Veronika Teresia Rackova of the Congregation of the Sisters Servant of the Holy Spirit and Medical Director of St Bakhita Health Centre will be buried today Tuesday, May 24 in Nairobi, Kenya ...
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  24 May 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Catholic Coptic Patriarch: the meeting between the Pope and al Tayyib is a 'new beginning' Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The return of the friendly relations between the Holy See and the Islamic University of al Azhar, sealed by the friendly encounter between Pope Francis and Imam Ahmed al Tayyib, "will give new vig ...
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  23 May 2016
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Bogotà ordains two Apostolic Vicars: "Be fathers and teachers" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "It is Christ who, in the ministry of the Bishop, continues to preach the gospel of salvation and to sanctify the faithful through the sacraments of faith; it is Christ who, in the fatherhood of ...
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  23 May 2016
  VATICAN - The Pope invites to spiritually join Chinese Catholics on May 24 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday, May 22, at the end of the Angelus, Pope Francis observed that Tuesday, May 24, the Catholics of China celebrate Mary "Help of Christians", who is venerated in China. Sayi ...
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  23 May 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Emergency for heavy rains and landslides continue Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The death toll in Sri Lanka following the violent floods which have been ravaging the country for one week continues to increase. We are talking about the heaviest rains recorded in the last twe ...
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  23 May 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - Mgr. Garcia Rodriguez new Archbishop of Havana: "A more effective dialogue" Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The new Metropolitan Archbishop of Havana, His Exc. Mgr. Juan de la Caridad García Rodriguez, launched an appeal during the Mass which he presided in the Cathedral yesterday, Sunday, May 22, so ...
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  23 May 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Nuns leave their cells to meet other women who live behind bars Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - A group of nuns came out from their monastic cells to meet other women who live behind prison bars. Seventy-six cloistered nuns from Santiago del Chile, went to meet the prisoners of the Female ...
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  23 May 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Mgr. Ndiaye warns: "National dialogue serves the interests of the nation and not those personalistic" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Do politicians really care to put themselves at the service of the city?" wonders His Exc. Mgr. Benjamin Ndiaye, Archbishop of Dakar and President of the Episcopal Conference of Senegal, in respo ...
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  23 May 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Yet another attack with three victims in the area of Qamishli inhabited by Christians Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) – The terrorist attack carried out in "Miami street", in Wusta district, inhabited mostly by Christians, in the late evening of Saturday, May 21 in the center of Qamishli, Syria's second larges ...
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  23 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - 87-year-old Fr. Peter Meienberg, a Benedictine who helps the prisoners of Kenya Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "I realised that prisoners needed more than just spiritual nourishment; they were living in very bad environments, and so I set up Faraja Foundation, and through the help of friends and my famil ...
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  23 May 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - A market to help refugee children in Lebanon Siviglia (Agenzia Fides) - Help us to help, is the motto of a trade market organized by the Andalusian Palestino Association for Children, intended to raise funds for eye and ear surgeries regarding children living in re ...
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  23 May 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The death of Bishop Luke Thomas Zhang Huaixin, zealous and patient Pastor Jixian (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, May 8, 2016, around noon, His Exc. Mgr. Luke Thomas Zhang Huaixin, Bishop of Jixian (Weíhwei), Henan Province (Mainland China) died. He would have turned 91 on May 23. On May 6 he h ...
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  23 May 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Bishop: after a meeting between Pope Francis and Grand Imam al Tayyib, the Egyptian press announces the resumption of dialogue between the Holy See and al Azhar Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - "In Egypt great importance is given to the meeting between Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar: even the most popular newspapers dedicate large space to the event on the front page, and r ...
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  21 May 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Bishops: "The government must stop radical Islamic groups and preserve coexistence" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope the government does its part to stop Islamic radical groups and preserve Indonesia's multicultural and multireligious identity, based on the Pancasila", the "five principles" at the ba ...
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  21 May 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Two years ago the Bishops' letter to President Ortega, still unanswered Managua (Agenzia Fides) – Two years have gone by since the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) delivered the document "En Búsqueda de Nuevos Horizontes, para una Nicaragua mejor" (Seeking new horizo ...