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  14 May 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Tense situation, electoral authorities delays for a recall referendum on President Nicolás Maduro's term Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Venezuela is heading toward a violent confrontation if those who have power do not leave" said His Exc. Mgr. Roberto Luckert Leon, Archbishop of Coro and President of the "Justice and Peace" Co ...
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  14 May 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop of Lagos: "Stop the attacks against farmers" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Alfred Adewale Martins, Archbishop of Lagos, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari so that the government intervenes to put an end to the massacres committed by Fulani herdsmen in the so ...
• 13 May 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - National Director of the PMS, Fr. Thomas Aquinas Kim Joon Chul Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 28, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Thomas Aquinas Kim Joon Chul, of the archdiocesan clergy of ...
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  13 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Extremists threaten Christians after a blasphemy case in Punjab Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a case of abuse of the blasphemy law, where the Christian community risks collective punishment. We are concerned, we call on the authorities to guarantee peace and hope there are no viole ...
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  13 May 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The crisis worsens, the first attempts to leave the country towards the Netherlands Antilles Willemstad (Agenzia Fides) - Angel Ramirez, President of the Red Cross of Curacao, the largest island of the Netherlands Antilles, which is situated in front of Venezuela, said that they are preparing to receive other Ve ...
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  13 May 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist monk: replace churces with pagodas Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Buddhist monk Myaing Kyee Ngu Sayadaw invites his followers to destroy the country's churches and replace them with Buddhist temples. This is the alarm launched by the Christian community in Myan ...
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  13 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops to Catholic journalists: "report the positive news of Africa" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa is often times portrayed as a continent of gloom and doom and societal failures of ethnocentrisms, violent conflicts, corruption, epidemics like HIV/AIDs and Ebola" complained Fr. Chrisa ...
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  13 May 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Infanti: "Yesterday Aysen, today Chiloé, tomorrow there will be other crises" Aysén (Agenzia Fides) - "The crisis in the Los Lagos region presents a national project which becomes more and more a discussion topic, because the development of this social system, essentially neoliberal, instead of p ...
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  13 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appeal of an Assumptionist father: "President, intervene to stop the massacres in North Kivu" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "President, I ask you to take an interest in what is happening in Beni, in Kivu. Could you take into consideration a serious inquiry for a proper justice?". Is the appeal in a letter to the Pre ...
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  13 May 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christian refugees are forced to sign a document to support the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - A fair number of Christian Assyrians, Chaldean and Syrian displaced, who took refuge in the city of Dohuk after their villages were conquered by the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh), were f ...
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  13 May 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - "Garden of Mercy" inaugurated in Amman, humanitarian project for refugees Amman (Agenzia Fides) - A company dedicated to "sustainable" agriculture, with 600 olive trees planted on an area of 10 thousand square meters, which employs 15 workers, chosen among the Iraqi refugees but also among the ...
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  12 May 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops of neighboring dioceses of Colombia and Venezuela: it is urgent to re-open the border Tachira (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of San Cristobal (Venezuela), His Exc. Mgr. Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez, and the Bishop of the Diocese of Cucuta (Colombia), His Exc. Mgr.Victor Manuel Ochoa, me ...
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  12 May 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cardinal Yeom: "May the compassion of Buddha be granted to our society" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Our society is full of conflict and division. In this difficult moment, I pray that the mercy and compassion of Buddha can be granted in abundance to our society", said Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-j ...
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  12 May 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Presidential and legislative elections: may it be a peaceful and democratic day for the Church Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, His Exc. Mgr. Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez, and the Bishop of Puerto Plata, His Exc. Mgr. Julio Cesar Corniel Amaro, expressed the ho ...
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  12 May 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian cemetery desecrated in Mus Mus (Agenzia Fides) - An historic Armenian cemetery dating back to the eighteenth century was desecrated in Mus, the capital of the Turkish eastern province. The news of the desecration was released yesterday from local ...