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  8 April 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Bishop: may the entry of Jesus in Egypt be celebrated as a national holiday Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian Coptic Christians are preparing to celebrate the feast of Jesus' entry into Egypt, which this year falls on July 1. In view of this liturgical and spiritual appointment, Coptic Orthodox B ...
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  8 April 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - In Gaza, the ruins of an ancient Byzantine church destroyed by bulldozers to make way for a shopping center Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - The ruins of an ancient Byzantine church, re-emerged during construction work of a shopping center, have been removed by bulldozers and the local authorities did nothing to protect the precious his ...
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  8 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - First stone of the new main church in Siuna Siuna (Agenzia Fides) – There was great joy for the laying of the foundation stone on April 3, of what will be the main church in Siuna, a very poor Nicaraguan municipality, abandoned by state services, and part of the ...
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  8 April 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - After the signing of the agreement with the rebels of Western Equatoria "comes the arduous task of rebuilding" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "This is the first kind of peace deal to be realized in one of the 28 countries of Southern Sudan" stressed His Exc. Mgr. Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, in his speech at ...
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  8 April 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - A video game to raise awareness about the plight of many children Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Cross Dakar City is the name of a video game that highlights the serious situations in which some Senegalese children live, and that shows that video games can be used to offer social awareness. T ...
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  8 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A forum of NGOs to be closer to the poor New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – To set up a national network of non-governmental agencies to improve and better coordinate the work of support and development among the poorest of society: with this spirit the Indian Jesui ...
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  8 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Floods in the North, people isolated Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) - "The floods have mainly affected the extreme North of the country, the territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, a very difficult area to reach due to the conformation of the territory. Only the army is ...
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  7 April 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Assembly of Bishops: without the help of the laity there cannot be an "outgoing Church" Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "We sincerely hope that this meeting will help us to support and enhance the mission of the laity. There cannot be an "outgoing Church" without the help of the laity, and a just and fraternal ...
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  7 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A Christian attacked because he proclaimed the Gospel in the street Patna (Agenzia Fides) – Beaten and stripped naked in the street: is the fate of the Christian Pentecostal Indian citizen attacked in the state of Bihar because he preached faith in Christ publicly. As reported to Fides ...
• 7 April 2016
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Diosdado Marqués Sabadell Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 4, 2016, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Diosdado Marqués Sabadell, of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraterni ...
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  7 April 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - How to encourage girls to study and avoid early marriages Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Zambia has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. More than 4 out of 10 women, aged between 20 and 24, get married when they are only 16. A destiny "already decided" for many yo ...
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  7 April 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Karekin II and Aram I will soon visit Nagorno Karabakh for their "solidarity with the people" Antelias (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholicos of the Armenians, Karekin II, and Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, Aram I, will together in the coming days visit Nagorno Karabakh, the region, with an Armenian majority ...
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  7 April 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "Come and you will see": a day for vocations in Seoul dedicated to teenagers Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Since 2009, the Archdiocese of Seoul celebrates the Day dedicated to vocations, in particular designed and conceived for teenagers: the Catholic Youth Day. As reported to Fides by the communicat ...
• 7 April 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - Resignation of the Bishop of Keta-Akatsi and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 7 April 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Keta-Akatsi (Ghana), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Anthony Kwami Adanuty, in ac ...
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  7 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Autonomous Region of Kurdistan takes charge of Christian civil servants forced to flee their lands Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan has renewed, until the end of 2016, the commitment to pay the salaries of Christian civil servants and public employees who worked in Mosul, in the Ninev ...