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  4 April 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Worsening of poverty Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - A "significant deterioration" of poverty was registered in Argentina in the first quarter of 2016: is what the latest report of the social debt observatory (ODSA) of the Universidad Católi ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Hospital patients want the return of the missionary wounded Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – The sick of Dinajpur hope Fr. Piero Parolari, the Italian missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, wounded in an ambush with attempted murder, will soon return to Bangladesh. ...
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  4 April 2016
  AFRICA/LIBYA - In Tripoli "we live waiting, praying for peace" Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "We live waiting, like the rest of the city's population, as always praying for peace. This is our task at the moment", say Church sources to Agenzia Fides from Tripoli, Libya's capital, where f ...
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  4 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Priest who gambled funds for refugees has been suspended Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Chaldean priest Amer Saka, who claimed he had gambled away hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for refugees fleeing violence and persecution in Iraq, has been temporarily suspended from t ...
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  2 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - NGOs: "The government has given in to pressure from extremists" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Pakistan has given in to seven out of ten requests presented by Islamic radical groups, supporters of Mumtaz Qadri, the confessed criminal of the governor of Punjab, Salman T ...
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  2 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishop of Acapulco and tradespeople’s appeal: "No more murders!" Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - "Brothers of organized crime (...) we kindly ask you to give us a few days without violence" said Laura Caballero, president of the largest association of traders of Acapulco, who together with ...
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  2 April 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Constitutional Court recognizes that President Zuma has violated the Constitution Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - A ruling by the Constitutional Court recognized that South African President Jacob Zuma violated the Constitution by using public funds to renovate his private residence in Nkandla. The sto ...
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  2 April 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Caritas Korea: Solidarity Campaign for Syrian refugees Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Five years after civil war in Syria - Let's wipe out their tears": is the new fundraising and solidarity campaign launched by "Caritas Korea" to give support to Syria. The funds, reported a state ...
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  1 April 2016
  AMERICA - Latin America: 348 thousand tons of food wasted every day Lima (Agenzia Fides) – About 348 thousand tons of food is wasted every day in Latin America and the Caribbean, which would be enough to feed 37 percent of the world's population suffering from hunger. This clearly appe ...
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  1 April 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Hopes are placed in peace talks with ELN to "put an end to this war that makes no sense" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Tunja and President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia (CEC), His Exc. Mgr. Luis Augusto Castro, expressed optimism on the agreement for the opening of peace talks between ...
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  1 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Against terrorism, mentality must change through the work of education Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Today many young people in Pakistan are brainwashed and then kill or become suicide bombers in the name of God. These heinous attacks will continue unless a change of mentality and culture take ...
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  1 April 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Sentence "for blasphemy" of the writer Fatima Naoot has been confirmed Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The court for misdemeanors in Cairo rejected the appeal that the famous writer and Egyptian blogger Fatima Naoot had filed against the conviction for the crime of blasphemy issued against her in J ...
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  1 April 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Priest found dead in San Cristobal San Cristobal (Agenzia Fides) - "The diocese of San Cristobal has the painful duty to report the tragic death of one of its priests, Fr. Darwin Antonio Zambrano Gamez. According to reports, the death took place on the ni ...
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  1 April 2016
  ASIA/YEMEN - Bishop Hinder: still no news of the Salesian kidnapped in Aden Aden (Agenzia Fides) – There is still no news of Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil, the Salesian priest kidnapped after the massacre perpetrated by a terrorist commando in the nursing home of Aden almost a month ago (see Fides 04/03/ ...
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  1 April 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishop of Tombura-Yambio calls for the release of former Governor Bakosoro Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "All citizens have equal rights before the law and have the right to be brought before a court to be punished according to the law and the articles of the Constitution", said His Exc. Mgr. Edward H ...