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  12 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protection of human rights: the government must put the National Plan into practice Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pakistani government must allocate the necessary funds and implement the National Action Plan on human rights in Pakistan, announced in February 2016". This is what Catholic Peter Jacob, Dir ...
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  12 May 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Crisis between Gambia and Senegal: the Archbishop of Dakar calls for reconciliation Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Dakar, Mgr. Benjamin Ndiaye, urged the faithful to pray for reconciliation between Senegal and Gambia, during the celebration of the 50th World Day of Social Communications and A ...
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  11 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A two-year-old Christian child killed by a Muslim man Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - It is one of those cases where high social status and wealth turn into arrogance and arbitrariness towards the weakest and most vulnerable. A wealthy Muslim landowner owner, who has so many C ...
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  11 May 2016
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre has been the patroness of the island for a hundred years Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, 10 May, the entire Cuban people celebrated the centenary of the proclamation of the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre as Patroness of Cuba. Fides received several testimonies from missi ...
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  11 May 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Patriarchs of the Syriac-Antiochene Churches want their communities to have a representative in Parliament Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A seat in the Lebanese Parliament for a politician belonging to the Syriac Orthodox Church, and another guaranteed by regulation to a representative of the Syriac Catholic community: is the concr ...
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  11 May 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A missionary: the country wants a president who respects the dignity of all Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "It is the failure of the government in serving the citizens to give consent and popularity to extremists and violent people. For example, to obtain a registration document of a vehicle at the he ...
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  11 May 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Infanti: "The crisis in Chiloé is not only an economic problem, but social" Aysén (Agenzia Fides) - The demand for fishermen "not to fall into the temptation to sell their conscience for a few thousand pesos that will be only bread for today and misery for tomorrow" is what the Apostolic Vicar ...
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  11 May 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Violence and indifference towards street children Melilla (Agenzia Fides) - Harraga is an association involved with the children of the autonomous city of Melilla road. It mainly deals with the medical care and protection of unaccompanied minors (MENA). These children a ...
• 11 May 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Revolt of pupils in a refugee camp against a medical team Geneina (Agenzia Fides) – Some students were injured and a school was completely destroyed during a revolt involving children of the schools in the camp for the displaced in Murnei, West Darfur. According to local sour ...
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  11 May 2016
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Patriarch of Moscow: "the fight against terrorism is a holy war" Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "Today the fight against terrorism is a holy war". This the strong formula used by Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, to support the need for a joint mobilization of the international co ...
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  10 May 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Archbishop of Portoviejo: "Hospitality and Mercy" to overcome discouragement Portoviejo (Agenzia Fides) - "The experience of the earthquake was really a great trauma for everyone, but especially for the many families who lost their relatives. I think about that father from Manta who lost his wife ...
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  10 May 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Rodrigo Duterte new President: "vigilant collaboration" from the Church Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Rodrigo Duterte is the new President of the Philippines, former mayor of Davao, called Digong, who won the presidential elections on May 9 with about 39% of the vote. Duterte succeeds Benigno Aqu ...
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  10 May 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - The protests of fishermen after the environmental disaster of Ancud still unanswered Ancud (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Chilean diocese of San Carlos de Ancud, His Exc. Mgr. Juan Maria Florindo Agurto Muñoz, O.S.M. managed to allow a few trucks with fuel and groceries to pass in order to supply t ...
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  10 May 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Orthodox Church and the Islamic University of Al-Azhar together against child abuse and premature marriages Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamic University of Al Azhar - considered the most authoritative theological-academic institution of Sunni Islam - and the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate signed a programmatic document which o ...
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  10 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Main opposition candidate accused of recruiting foreign mercenaries Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The main opposition candidate in the upcoming presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Moïse Katumbi, has been accused of recruiting foreign mercenaries to destabilize the C ...