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  7 June 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - Christian leaders: "Young people stay in Africa: Europe does not automatically guarantee comfort and pleasure" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "We are saddened by the news about the many migrant deaths in the deserts of North Africa and in the waters of the Mediterranean and we appeal to States and African governments to take measures to ...
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  7 June 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Collection of school material for Senegalese children in Thiès O Grove (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Association For a smile O Grove organizes a school material collection campaign with the goal of helping school children from Thiès in Senegal. It may be just a notebook, a pencil, ...
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  7 June 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The plight of albinos at risk for false popular beliefs Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On June 13, we celebrate International Albinism Awareness Day and the European Day of Skin Cancer Prevention. The phenomenon of albinism penalizes and affect the daily lives of so many people. In ...
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  7 June 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch to Muslims: an "exceptional Ramadan" is needed to counter sectarianism Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "The month of Ramadan offers a propitious time for fasting, prayer, repentance and to change mentality and behavior (metanoia), in order to live in peace with oneself and others". These are the ...
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  7 June 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The restoration work of the Aedicule starts at Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre shrine Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - A major restoration project has begun at the shrine inside Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre where Jesus is said to have been buried before his resurrection. The experts involved in the ...
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  7 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Interfaith prayer for Prime Minister Sharif's health Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders met in Lahore to pray "for the recovery and long life" of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, 66, who in recent days underwent a delicate heart surgery in London . The ...
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  6 June 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The young are "apostles of modern times" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Young Catholics in Pakistan are "apostles of modern times": said Fr. Saleh Diego, Vicar general of the Archdiocese of Karachi, who recently took part in a meeting of the "Jesus Youth Pakistan" ( ...
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  6 June 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Birth of a new National Center for Evangelization Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian Bishops have set up a new "National Center for Evangelization". As Fides learns by the Communications Office of the Bishops Conference, the announcement was given on June 2 by the ...
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  6 June 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Church of Jujuy before the crisis: "attention must be given to the most vulnerable" Jujuy (Fides) - "At the moment needs are increasing because life is more expensive and attention should be paid to those who are the most vulnerable": stressed the Bishop of Jujuy, His Exc. Mgr. Cesar Daniel Fernandez, s ...
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  6 June 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - "We need leaders who think about the welfare of all Kenyans", says the Bishop of Malindi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We really want national leaders, it is not enough to say 'sisi watu wa Kenya' ( 'we people of Kenya', in Swahili) while their actions say otherwise", said His Exc. Mgr. Emmanuel Barbara, Bisho ...
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  OCEANIA/GUAM - Appointment of the Apostolic Administrator "sede plena" of the Archdiocese of Agaña Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On June 6, 2016 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Savio Hon Tai-Fai, S.D.B., Apostolic Administrator "sede plena" of the Archdiocese of Agaña, in Guam. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 06/06/20 ...
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  6 June 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Radio and TV spots against child labor Panama (Agenzia Fides) - "Child Labour Forget it!" is the title of the 2016 campaign against child labor, which is part of a program to make Panama a free Country from this social scourge. The aim is to sensitize every ...
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  6 June 2016
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - New minimum wages: "people are struggling to survive" said Mgr. Escobar Alas San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, harshly criticized the agreement to raise the minimum wages of workers by 15% in three years and has asked the authori ...
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  6 June 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Clashes, few resources and heat do not prevent CUAMM to continue its work Yirol (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank the good Lord for the 'good' that I encountered these days in South Sudan, despite the recent insecurity, scarce resources, many people's hardships and sufferings". This is what Don Dante ...
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  6 June 2016
  VATICAN - Pope at the Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: "We need to grow in evangelical passion" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, June 4, the Holy Father received in audience the participants at the Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies, to whom he addressed the following speech: Your Eminence ...