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  6 May 2016
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Schooling for 75 million children in Countries where there is humanitarian crises London (Agenzia Fides) - About 75 million school age children and adolescents, who live in Countries affected by the crisis, need schooling programs. This is what the British organization Overseas Development Institute ...
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  6 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - More than 9,000 children suffer domestic violence in the State of Michoacán Morelia (Agenzia Fides) - In the Mexican state of Michoacán 15.5% of girls and 19.4% of boys between 6 to 9 years of age suffer abuse and beatings by parents. Data were collected by Children and Youth Study 2012. Equall ...
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  6 May 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Families are fleeing violence", denounces the Bishop of Tibù Tibù (Agenzia Fides) - Farming families flee due to the increase in homicides, for the presence of armed groups that threaten and extort the population, denounced the Colombian Bishop of the Diocese of Tibù, His Exc. M ...
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  6 May 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Religious superiors: "Let us spread the message of ‘Laudato Sì’ " Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Pollution of the water, of the land, of the air; deforestation and cutting of trees, burning the forests, overgrazing and desertification and oil exploitation as the major income for the country b ...
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  6 May 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops: Lebanon looks like a ship without a helm Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Arab world is threatened in its very existence by "murderous identities", and crises and wars which upset the whole region have their deep roots in "regional conflicts" and "international po ...
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  6 May 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop kidnapped: three priests arrested New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian police arrested 14 people, accusing them of having organized and participated in the kidnapping of Mgr. Prasad Gallela, Bishop of the diocese of Cuddapah, in Andhra Pradesh, kidnapp ...
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  6 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian couple burned alive for blasphemy: impunity of perpetrators Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – The trial regarding the culprits of the lynching of a Christian couple Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi, burned alive for alleged blasphemy on November 4, 2014 appears to be complicated. In yeste ...
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  6 May 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - European Award for the Armenian church in Diyarbakir, confiscated by the government Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Apostolic Church of St. Giragos (San Ciriaco) in Diyarbakır has been awarded for its recent restoration by the European Union, but the awards ceremony and the laying of the comm ...
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  4 May 2016
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - To walk together, in an era of movement, moved by the Spirit Solothurn (Agenzia Fides) - The "movements" of our time involve everyone. Some people are forced to move, even to flee, leaving forever their history and their context, and there are those who, under the illusion that mo ...
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  4 May 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops: "President, we are with you in the fight against corruption and violence" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We commend your efforts in the fight against Boko Haram and against corruption. We encourage that justice be done according to the rule of law, with no sacred cows to be spared", said His Exc. Mg ...
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  4 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The sad phenomenon of children born in prisons from mothers in prison Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Currently there are more than 13,000 women in Mexican prisons and most are mothers. In male and female detention centers of Santa Martha, in Mexico City, there are also 550 children who were ...
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  4 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Ensuring the safety of people in Veracruz Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - "In Veracruz an immediate response mechanism to the disappearance of a person, without having to wait 72 hours to submit the complaint is needed", said the Bishop of Córdoba (Veracruz, Mexico) ...
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  4 May 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Still killings carried out by the army, the population lives in fear Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Deploring the murder of Enrique Aguinaga Castrillo, nicknamed "Invisible Captain", which took place last Saturday, April 30, and considering that there is nothing positive from the militarizat ...
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  4 May 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Peshmerga and the coalition raid reject the jihadists outside the village of Telskuf Telskuf (Agenzia Fides) - The offensive of about 150 jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) who yesterday, May 3, had attacked Telskuf, a town in the Nineveh Plain where before August 2014 about 12 thousand Christians li ...
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  4 May 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Egyptian parliament is preparing to discuss the new law on the construction of places of worship Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The new text of the law on the construction of places of worship, has been prepared in its pre-definitive version, and will be discussed by the Egyptian Parliament in coming weeks, probably within ...