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  14 April 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Nearly half of minors and adolescent workers receive no remuneration Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent report by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), at a national level, the last quarter of 2015, 47.1% of the population in the age group between 5 to 1 ...
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  14 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in the Nineveh Plain demonstrate in Erbil: Kurdish fixers have expropriated our lands Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, April 13 several hundred Christian Syrians, Chaldeans and Assyrians, from the region of Nahla, in the northern Iraqi province of Dohuk, organized a protest demonstration in front o ...
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  14 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - A work program for women and young people in poverty Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The non-profit organization Cuso International, engaged with its volunteers to fight poverty, has launched in Nicaragua the Voice work program, Voluntary work for International Cooperation and E ...
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  14 April 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Despite a UN Resolution the government in Kinshasa insists on the postponement of presidential elections Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Clash between the UN and the government in Kinshasa on the next elections. On 30 March the UN Security Council approved Resolution 2277, which calls on the government of the Democratic Republic ...
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  14 April 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Elections, the Church calls for "more cooperation" among the parties Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Saenuri Conservative Party, currently in power in South Korea, has lost the majority of seats in the Korean Parliament. According to the official results of the elections of 13 April, for the ...
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  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Media concerned about the threats to freedom of expression Juba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudanese media are concerned about the statements of a government spokesman who asked inter alia to "stop direct calls from citizens to express their views on radio talk shows". The Associat ...
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  14 April 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Professor of al-Azhar University: If the veil is banned, we must also ban the wearing of the cross Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - If laws ban Muslim women from wearing the full veil (niqab), at that point, to avoid discrimination, we must also ban Christian women wearing necklaces with crosses. This - as reported by the Egyp ...
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  13 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Church fires do not stop, the solution is in dialogue Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic chapel was set on fire at dawn yesterday in the region of Antiquina, in the town of Cañete, Biobio region (Chile). According to police information, the arson completely destroye ...
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  13 April 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - One child out of 5 goes to work instead of going to school Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - One Burmese child out of 5, between 10 and 17 years of age, goes to work instead of going to school, compromising their personal and professional development as well as affecting the prospect for ...
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  13 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Five new Franciscan priests in Lahore Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Pakistan has welcomed the gift of five new Capuchin Franciscan friars ordained priests: as reported to Fides by the Provincial of Pakistan, Fr. Francis Nadeem, the ordination was he ...
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  13 April 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Appeal to the new leaders: a governance enriched by mercy Manila (Agenzia Fides) - To ensure good governance and an action-oriented policy for the common good, the new leaders of the Philippines should adopt the approach of mercy: this is what Redemptorist Fr. Amado Picardal, e ...
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  13 April 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops: "drug trade threatens the peaceful and democratic coexistence of the country" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Bolivia (CEB) has reiterated the seriousness of the problem of drug trafficking, which "threatens the peaceful and democratic coexistence of the Country". This is what ...
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  13 April 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Migration: Caritas Africa and Europe at a seminar in Dakar Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – To make proposals for migration policies that go beyond the current approach based solely on security, through a partnership between African and European countries. This is what will be discusse ...
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  13 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - An agreement has been signed that prohibits the employment of children in fields Chihuahua (Agenzia Fides) - In the Mexican state of Chihuahua no farmer will be able to employ child workers as in all other States of the Country. Local authorities, along with 250 farm owners, have recently signed an a ...
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  13 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: priests must not favor or even arrange the exodus of Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Church as such, and especially priests, should in no way be involved directly in operations and programs to plan and organize the exodus of Iraqi Christians to foreign countries, and anyone ...