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  24 May 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - "It seems that La Araucania does not exist for the government" said Mgr. Vargas before INDH Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The session of the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH), one of the institutions that aims to collect relevant testimony of La Araucania, regarding intercultural conflicts in this area, took ...
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  24 May 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Church and civil society against new executions Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - An urgent appeal and a campaign to stop new executions scheduled by the Indonesian government and announced as imminent: is what Catholic organizations and groups of the Indonesian civil society ...
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  24 May 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Children drop out of school to look for food Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The economic, food and political emergency within the Latin American Country continues. In past months, in order to survive and find something to eat, one Venezuelan child out of four was forced ...
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  24 May 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "Killings of persons with albinism on the rise" denounces Justice and Peace Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Albinos are being abducted and killed for ritual purposes. Graves have been exhumed and some people have been caught by the police with bones and other albino body parts. We as a Justice and P ...
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  24 May 2016
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Rabbis launch campaign against religious hatred fueled by "Price Tag" gangs Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Israel-based Rabbis for Human Rights have announced that a new anti-'price tag' attack inter-party campaign will be launched in the Knesset this week. Tag Meir (the Light Tag Forum) is a coali ...
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  24 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Kidnapping during the Mass, the Bishop denounces "things are getting worse and worse" Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - Before the wave of violence that continues to hit Veracruz, the Bishop of the diocese of Cordoba, His Exc. Mgr. Eduardo Patiño Leal, could not help but declare that "things are getting worse an ...
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  24 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Michoacan is among the five States with the highest rate of child exploitation Morelia (Agenzia Fides) - The state of Michoacan is among the five States of Mexico where there is the highest number of child exploitation. According to data collected by the Human Rights Commission, the violence suffer ...
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  24 May 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Today the funeral of Sister Veronika Teresia Rackova Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Veronika Teresia Rackova of the Congregation of the Sisters Servant of the Holy Spirit and Medical Director of St Bakhita Health Centre will be buried today Tuesday, May 24 in Nairobi, Kenya ...
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  24 May 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Catholic Coptic Patriarch: the meeting between the Pope and al Tayyib is a 'new beginning' Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The return of the friendly relations between the Holy See and the Islamic University of al Azhar, sealed by the friendly encounter between Pope Francis and Imam Ahmed al Tayyib, "will give new vig ...
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  23 May 2016
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Bogotà ordains two Apostolic Vicars: "Be fathers and teachers" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "It is Christ who, in the ministry of the Bishop, continues to preach the gospel of salvation and to sanctify the faithful through the sacraments of faith; it is Christ who, in the fatherhood of ...
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  23 May 2016
  VATICAN - The Pope invites to spiritually join Chinese Catholics on May 24 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday, May 22, at the end of the Angelus, Pope Francis observed that Tuesday, May 24, the Catholics of China celebrate Mary "Help of Christians", who is venerated in China. Sayi ...
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  23 May 2016
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Emergency for heavy rains and landslides continue Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The death toll in Sri Lanka following the violent floods which have been ravaging the country for one week continues to increase. We are talking about the heaviest rains recorded in the last twe ...
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  23 May 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - Mgr. Garcia Rodriguez new Archbishop of Havana: "A more effective dialogue" Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The new Metropolitan Archbishop of Havana, His Exc. Mgr. Juan de la Caridad García Rodriguez, launched an appeal during the Mass which he presided in the Cathedral yesterday, Sunday, May 22, so ...
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  23 May 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Nuns leave their cells to meet other women who live behind bars Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - A group of nuns came out from their monastic cells to meet other women who live behind prison bars. Seventy-six cloistered nuns from Santiago del Chile, went to meet the prisoners of the Female ...
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  23 May 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Mgr. Ndiaye warns: "National dialogue serves the interests of the nation and not those personalistic" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Do politicians really care to put themselves at the service of the city?" wonders His Exc. Mgr. Benjamin Ndiaye, Archbishop of Dakar and President of the Episcopal Conference of Senegal, in respo ...