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  10 May 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Orthodox Church and the Islamic University of Al-Azhar together against child abuse and premature marriages Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamic University of Al Azhar - considered the most authoritative theological-academic institution of Sunni Islam - and the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate signed a programmatic document which o ...
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  10 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Main opposition candidate accused of recruiting foreign mercenaries Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The main opposition candidate in the upcoming presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Moïse Katumbi, has been accused of recruiting foreign mercenaries to destabilize the C ...
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  10 May 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Six million children in danger due to El Niño Gode (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations estimates that in Ethiopia, between Oromia and the Somali Region, 15 million people are in urgent need of food aid due to drought. 33% of this population is already suffering the ...
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  10 May 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "The crisis is first of all political": declaration of the Latin American Redemptorist Missionaries Atyrà (Agenzia Fides) - "The major superiors and representatives of 26 provinces and missions of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer of all the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, gathered in the Genera ...
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  10 May 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch Rai: The international community has to recognize and proclaim the "neutrality" of Lebanon Paris (Agenzia Fides) - The neutrality of Lebanon with regards to the conflicts and contrasts between regional and global forces that disrupt the Middle East region of the opposing sides, must be officially recognized an ...
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  10 May 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President Buhari launches an appeal for the unity of the country 50 years after the Biafran war Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - President Muhammadu Buhari launched an appeal for unity and national harmony, recalling the bloody war for the secession of the southern region of Biafra, which broke out 50 years ago, which resul ...
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  10 May 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - New church in a tribal area Vasai (Agenzia Fides) - The tribal population in the Archdiocese of Vasai has a new Catholic church: Archbishop Felix Machado blessed and officially opened it for worship on April 30, inaugurating it in Talasari, in the ...
• 9 May 2016
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Resignation of Bishop of Xuan Loc and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 7 May 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Xuan Loc (Viet Nam), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Dominique Nguyen Chu Trinh, in accordance wit ...
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  9 May 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Meeting of the border dioceses of 4 countries dedicated to environment and climate change El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - The 31st Meeting of "border dioceses" which will bring together a hundred people including Bishops, priests, religious women and lay people from four countries: Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and U ...
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  9 May 2016
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Catholic Church burned down: third place of Christian worship burned so far this year Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic church was burned to the ground in the northwest of Tanzania. We are talking about the church in Nyarwele, in the region of Kagera, in the extreme north-west of Tanzania, on the ...
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  9 May 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church to voters: "Think of Christ when you vote" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Keep Christ in mind, when you vote in today's election, May 9: is the exhortation addressed to the voters by the Philippine Church on the occasion of World Communications Day, celebrated yesterda ...
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  9 May 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Week for Christian Unity: respectful, not only tolerant, towards migrants Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - In Brazil, as in many other Latin American countries, the week before Pentecost is dedicated to prayer for Christian unity. "Called to proclaim the great works of the Lord" is the theme chos ...
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  9 May 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Luis Raphael I writes to the Chaldean diocese in the US: the priests who have emigrated without permission have to reflect on their vocation Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – To divide the ecclesial body in separate groups is a "serious sin", in a time when the Chaldean Church is also prompted by the dramatic historical circumstances which guards unity with speci ...
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  9 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New projects to stem the phenomenon of street children Villahermosa (Agenzia Fides) - The local government of the Mexican state of Tabasco are coming together to address the problem of street children and to find a solution. Although there is a Center of Assistance for Child ...
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  9 May 2016
  AMERICA - One year of zika in Latin America Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Since its discovery in Uganda in 1947, the Zika virus had never left Africa until 2007 when 185 suspected cases in Micronesia, in the Pacific were registered. Over the past seven years a few ...