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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 ...
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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 ...