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  6 May 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - European Award for the Armenian church in Diyarbakir, confiscated by the government Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Apostolic Church of St. Giragos (San Ciriaco) in Diyarbakır has been awarded for its recent restoration by the European Union, but the awards ceremony and the laying of the comm ...
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  4 May 2016
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - To walk together, in an era of movement, moved by the Spirit Solothurn (Agenzia Fides) - The "movements" of our time involve everyone. Some people are forced to move, even to flee, leaving forever their history and their context, and there are those who, under the illusion that mo ...
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  4 May 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops: "President, we are with you in the fight against corruption and violence" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We commend your efforts in the fight against Boko Haram and against corruption. We encourage that justice be done according to the rule of law, with no sacred cows to be spared", said His Exc. Mg ...
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  4 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The sad phenomenon of children born in prisons from mothers in prison Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Currently there are more than 13,000 women in Mexican prisons and most are mothers. In male and female detention centers of Santa Martha, in Mexico City, there are also 550 children who were ...
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  4 May 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Ensuring the safety of people in Veracruz Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - "In Veracruz an immediate response mechanism to the disappearance of a person, without having to wait 72 hours to submit the complaint is needed", said the Bishop of Córdoba (Veracruz, Mexico) ...
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  4 May 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Still killings carried out by the army, the population lives in fear Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Deploring the murder of Enrique Aguinaga Castrillo, nicknamed "Invisible Captain", which took place last Saturday, April 30, and considering that there is nothing positive from the militarizat ...
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  4 May 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Peshmerga and the coalition raid reject the jihadists outside the village of Telskuf Telskuf (Agenzia Fides) - The offensive of about 150 jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) who yesterday, May 3, had attacked Telskuf, a town in the Nineveh Plain where before August 2014 about 12 thousand Christians li ...
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  4 May 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Egyptian parliament is preparing to discuss the new law on the construction of places of worship Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The new text of the law on the construction of places of worship, has been prepared in its pre-definitive version, and will be discussed by the Egyptian Parliament in coming weeks, probably within ...
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  4 May 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP- An initiative to eradicate child labor Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Child labor is a phenomenon that affects 13% of Dominican children between 5 to 17 years of age. In order to address this phenomenon, the Niños Limpiabotas La Merced Foundation was establ ...
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  4 May 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Boom of vocations to priesthood: a lively and vibrant Church in faith Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – That in Pakistan is a Church that lives faith in every day difficulties, in a country where 95% are Muslims and is "fervent in priestly vocations and consecrated life, a sign of God's blessing, ...
• 3 May 2016
  ASIA/THAILAND - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Peter Watchasin Kritjharoen Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 3, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Peter Watchasin Kritjharoen of the clergy of the diocese of Ratchabur ...
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  3 May 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "He is not here, he has risen! Inni as hin jiru; ka'eera!": Easter in Robe mission Kofale (Agenzia Fides) - "Easter was characterized by rain and darkness. We were without electricity on Holy Saturday and Sunday. Foreseeing that there would not be enough room in the church, we prepared the water for ba ...
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  3 May 2016
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Mgr. González Nieves: "Necessity to re-build Puerto Rico, but we must be united" San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, the country asks us not to remain silent. Silence means to resign. And we Puerto Ricans are men of peace, but we are not resigned": with these words the Archbishop of San Juan of Puerto ...
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  3 May 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Youth unemployment is a time bomb ready to explode" warns "Justice and Peace" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The youth unemployment continues to pose a danger to the security of our nation and stability of our family life. It is a time bomb that shall soon explode on us", says His Exc. Mgr. Abel ...
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  3 May 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The appeals of Christian communities against the expropriation of churches in Diyarbakir increase Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - While in Diyarbakir the curfew ordered by the Turkish authorities continues, the appeals filed by the legal representatives of foundations linked to the Christian community against the order ...