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  19 May 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Insecurity, unemployment and poverty for Afro Cúcuta descendants Cúcuta (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest census, 6,400 Afro descendants reside in the city of Cúcuta, on the border with Venezuela. Unemployment and racism are among the main problems regarding members of this ...
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  19 May 2016
  EUROPE/GREECE - Vaccinations against preventable diseases for over 3000 children stranded at the border Idomeni (Agenzia Fides) - At Idomeni camp, in Central Macedonia, 10,000 people are still stranded due to the closure of the Greek-Macedonian border. Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in collaboration with the local national ...
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  19 May 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Crisis gets more and more serious, Mgr. Gallagher cancels his trip Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Venezuela continues to experience a serious internal crisis, due to the clash between President Nicolás Maduro and opposition, who show no sign of creating the minimum conditions for dialogue ( ...
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  19 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The massacres in eastern Congo are the result of links between politics, ethnicities and exploitation of resources Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - About fifty people were killed in the first week of May, in North Kivu (DRC): about forty in Beni area, in the north, presumably by militiamen of the Allied Democratic Forces ( ADF), and a doze ...
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  18 May 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Meeting of the border dioceses: There is only one crisis, which is socio-environmental Corrientes (Agenzia Fides) - "Given the progressive degradation and the threat to our planet and to human beings as an integral part of the planetary ecosystem, we assume the complexity of the situation that affects ever ...
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  18 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Being a woman and a Maya means encountering major difficulties regarding human rights Merida (Agenzia Fides) - Being a woman and a member of the Mayan ethnic group represent major difficulties when it comes to achieving human rights. As part of the forum Mayan Women and their Human Rights, the President o ...
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  18 May 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Reopen the border to live as brothers: difficulties in the negotiations Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - It was a bad surprise for the governor of Norte de Santander (Colombia), William Villamizar, and the Bishop of Cúcuta (Colombia), His Exc. Mgr. Victor Manuel Ochoa, to be stopped at the border w ...
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  18 May 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Church is betting on young people to eradicate corruption "endemic cancer" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Corruption is an endemic cancer that has reached the summit of the Country", warned His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Osei- Bonsu, Archbishop of Konongo-Mampong and President of the Episcopal Conference of Gh ...
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  18 May 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mothers infected with the zika virus give birth to healthy children Managua (Agenzia Fides) - A small success in the health sector concerns the case of five pregnant women infected with the Zika virus in Nicaragua who have given birth to healthy babies, without microcephaly. According to ...
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  18 May 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Mine clearance of the area around the site of the Baptism of Jesus has been announced Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The area of Qasr al-Yahud, which extends around the western bank of the Jordan River, a place which tradition identifies as the site of Jesus' baptism, will be cleared of mines and other ordna ...
• 18 May 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Archbishop of Juba: "there is completely no foundation for us to hate ourselves because of the tribes" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us think of togetherness, let us talk about unity, I think what went wrong with us was because of lack of unity among us the 64, 65 tribes did not succeed to come together and understand thems ...
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  18 May 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian refugees welcomed in Slovakia ask to be repatriated Bratislava (Agenzia Fides) - At least twenty of the 149 Iraqi refugees who have been in Slovakia for a few months on the basis of a "selective" welcome program reserved for Christian refugees, have decided to return to I ...
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  18 May 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Solemn celebration of the Pentecost in the sign of Mercy Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) - During the Eucharistic liturgy of the Solemnity of Pentecost celebrated in the parish of Xiao Dian, 62 faithful delivered a copy of the Gospel of St. Mark that everyone had transcribed by ...
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  17 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Five suicides concerning young people in 24 hours, "we must do something urgently" says the Bishop Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - "What we want to know is why? What is happening to young people? What are the problems that lead to suicide?" asks His Exc. Mgr. José Guadalupe Torres Campos, Bishop of Ciudad Juarez. The ...
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  17 May 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Danilo Medina wins the election Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Although 44% of seats are to be scrutinized, Danilo Medina, current President of the Dominican Republic, has been declared the winner of the elections. "What has happened is a victory of ...