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  20 May 2016
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Clear objectives to reduce poverty and protect democracy San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy presented a new version of the legislation to help solve the financial crisis Puerto Rico is going through. The recent bill for Puerto Rico entitled "PROMESA" ( ...
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  20 May 2016
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "Need to stop the phenomenon of early marriages", the warning of the Bishop of Tenkodogo Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Like all young dioceses, even that of Tenkodogo in Burkina Faso, has many difficulties to face". In Tenkodogo the are many basic facilities lacking such as clinics and schools, but the phenomenon o ...
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  20 May 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The liberation of the girls in Chibok is an important sign", said Cardinal Onaiyekan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The question we must ask ourselves is: they were abducted two years ago, why haven’t we found them yet?" asks Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, to Agenzia Fides, commenting on the r ...
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  19 May 2016
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Colombia: Visit to the Apostolic Vicariate and Missionary Congress Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, will carry out a pastoral visit to Colombia, from May 21 to 28, for the episcopal ordination of the ...
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  19 May 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - US set to arm "Christian" anti-extremist militias in Iraq? The Chaldean Patriarch: "It is a very bad idea" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Christian anti-Islamic State forces in Iraq are set to benefit from a defence spending bill headed for authorisation by the US Congress and Senate, justifying this action as part of the fight ag ...
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  19 May 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Calm returns in San Pedro, Mgr. Ozoria warns not to expect an absolute power San Pedro de Macoris (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Francisco Ozoria Acosta, Bishop of the diocese of San Pedro de Macoris, condemned the incidents that took place in recent days in the Dominican Republic because of the ...
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  19 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops are against the closure of Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the world Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The closure of the refugee camp in Dadaab will undoubtedly have consequences not only for hundreds of thousands of refugees but for the entire region", say the Catholic Bishops of Kenya in a st ...
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  19 May 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Insecurity, unemployment and poverty for Afro Cúcuta descendants Cúcuta (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest census, 6,400 Afro descendants reside in the city of Cúcuta, on the border with Venezuela. Unemployment and racism are among the main problems regarding members of this ...
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  19 May 2016
  EUROPE/GREECE - Vaccinations against preventable diseases for over 3000 children stranded at the border Idomeni (Agenzia Fides) - At Idomeni camp, in Central Macedonia, 10,000 people are still stranded due to the closure of the Greek-Macedonian border. Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in collaboration with the local national ...
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  19 May 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Crisis gets more and more serious, Mgr. Gallagher cancels his trip Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Venezuela continues to experience a serious internal crisis, due to the clash between President Nicolás Maduro and opposition, who show no sign of creating the minimum conditions for dialogue ( ...
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  19 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The massacres in eastern Congo are the result of links between politics, ethnicities and exploitation of resources Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - About fifty people were killed in the first week of May, in North Kivu (DRC): about forty in Beni area, in the north, presumably by militiamen of the Allied Democratic Forces ( ADF), and a doze ...
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  18 May 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Meeting of the border dioceses: There is only one crisis, which is socio-environmental Corrientes (Agenzia Fides) - "Given the progressive degradation and the threat to our planet and to human beings as an integral part of the planetary ecosystem, we assume the complexity of the situation that affects ever ...
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  18 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Being a woman and a Maya means encountering major difficulties regarding human rights Merida (Agenzia Fides) - Being a woman and a member of the Mayan ethnic group represent major difficulties when it comes to achieving human rights. As part of the forum Mayan Women and their Human Rights, the President o ...
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  18 May 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Reopen the border to live as brothers: difficulties in the negotiations Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - It was a bad surprise for the governor of Norte de Santander (Colombia), William Villamizar, and the Bishop of Cúcuta (Colombia), His Exc. Mgr. Victor Manuel Ochoa, to be stopped at the border w ...
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  18 May 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Church is betting on young people to eradicate corruption "endemic cancer" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Corruption is an endemic cancer that has reached the summit of the Country", warned His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Osei- Bonsu, Archbishop of Konongo-Mampong and President of the Episcopal Conference of Gh ...