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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops meet the Prime Minister: "We invite the Pope to India" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of Indian Bishops met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The group was led by the President of the Bishops' Conference (CBCI), Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, accompanied by the Gene ...
• 26 April 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Appointment of the Bishop of Mzuzu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 26 April 2016 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. John Alphonsus Ryan, a Missionary of St. Patrick's, Society (Kiltegan), Professor at the University of Mzuzu, as Bishop of the diocese of ...
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  26 April 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - For 150 years, the Mother of Perpetual Help accompanies the Redemptorist missionaries in the world Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Today is the 150th anniversary of the restoration to public veneration of the icon of Mary Mother of Perpetual Help, entrusted to the Redemptorist missionaries by Pope Pius IX in 1866 with a commit ...
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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Long trail of targeted killings: "Christians continue their pastoral and social activities" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are aware, concerned but not alarmed. Fanatical groups are spreading death, but we hope that the government can control them. The pastoral and social activities of the Church continues": says ...
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  25 April 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Teenage pregnancy and its consequences on the lives of young women in Africa Padova (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time ever, Italy celebrated “Women’s Health Day” this year in order to focus the nation’s attention on the issue of women’s health care and prevention and to underscore th ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Ecumenical Patriarch wants to meet Erdogan to talk about the Theological Institute of Halki Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, wants to meet President Tayyip Erdogan to talk about the status of the Patriarchate, and above all would like clarification on the rece ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl kidnapped and victim of forced marriage and conversion to Islam: the phenomenon does not stop Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Help his daughter, victim of abduction, forced marriage and conversion to Islam: is the appeal launched by Sarwar Masih, a Pakistani Christian who asked the help of lawyer Sardar Mushtaq Gill, hea ...
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  25 April 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Earthquakes cause extreme difficulties for those affected by disability Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The death toll of the earthquake that just over a week ago struck Ecuador rises: more than 710 people have died or are missing, including some 16,600 injured and some are still in serious condit ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Mass explained to young people, for the 400th anniversary of the Church of St. Andrew Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee of the 400th anniversary of the founding of St. Andrew's Church in Bandra, in Mumbai, was the occasion for a special celebration dedicated to the young: it was a Holy Mass animated wi ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - A predominantly Christian city bombed by Islamist rebels. Armed truce in Qamishli between the Kurdish militias and pro-Assad army Hama (Agenzia Fides) - Islamist militias linked to Al Qaeda Jabhat al Nusra Front group launched an attack with mortars on the Syrian city of Sqelbiya, a predominantly Christian city, in the central province of Hama on S ...
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  22 April 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The ordeal and growing despair among the 2,500 Cubans blocked at the border continues David (Agenzia Fides) - "As Pastoral Social-Caritas Panama, from 6 to 18 April we visited along with some Caritas delegates of David, the centers where there are Cubans migrants in Paso Canoas. Here there are more than 2 ...
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  22 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Too much military presence indicates weakness": demonstration against the inter-oceanic canal Nueva Guinea (Agenzia Fides) - The military and police presence on the route that will follow the fourth national March against the inter-oceanic canal, scheduled for today, April 22, in Nueva Guinea, "scares" the popula ...
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  22 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Vargas: "Churches burned to solve the Mapuche conflict is unexplainable" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Temuco, His Exc. Mgr. Hector Eduardo Vargas Bastidas, S.D.B. in a testimony sent to Fides, highlights the situation after the attacks on churches which recently occurred in southern ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - NGOs appeal to the government: need to face the crisis of the Rohingya Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – Need to face the crisis of the ethnic minority of Rohingya Muslims, who in the past five years have seen a dramatic escalation of human rights violations, marked by repression, discrimination a ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - St. Elisabeth Catholic hospital at the forefront in the country for the care of cancer patients Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - A special unit that provides home palliative care to cancer patients, with pain control therapy, has recently opened, and this is the first experience at a national level: the St. Elisabeth Ca ...