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  29 April 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Oran appeals to everyone, including authorities, to take action against dengue Oran (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Oran, His Exc. Mgr. Gustavo Zanchetta, has recently sent a letter to the community to urge all, including authorities, to increase their efforts against dengue. According to the local ...
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  29 April 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The Church condemns xenophobic violence and ritual murders Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The government must anticipate events and make every effort to stop these behaviors", said Fr. Cleophas Lungu, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Zambia to Catholic agency CANAA, ...
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  29 April 2016
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The construction of the penitentiary center in San Pedro Sula has come to a stop, the Bishop seeks funding San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - The construction of the new detention center in San Pedro Sula has stopped again. For four months, the works have stopped, despite repeated announcements to resume construction. The Presi ...
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  28 April 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops on the serious situation in the country: "Be peaceful but active citizens" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Never before had Venezuelans suffered an extreme lack of basic necessities such as food and medicines, along with other evils such as criminal and inhuman crime, rationing of electricity and wa ...
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  28 April 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The first Camaldolese monastery in the Country under construction Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In these days father Alessandro Barban, Prior General of the Camaldolese Congregation of the Order of St. Benedict, met the Archbishop of Seoul, Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, who strongly support ...
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  28 April 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "Kira Mama Plus!" A project to reduce infant mortality Cibitoke (Agenzia Fides) - In recent years Burundi has made great strides in reducing maternal and infant mortality. The same is not true for neonatal mortality: according to UNICEF still 36 children out of 1000 die in t ...
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  28 April 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic priests "on mission" in cafes and in the streets to proclaim Easter Minya (Agenzia Fides) - In Egypt, Coptic churches - who follow the Julian calendar - are celebrating Holy Week. In view of Easter, greetings and good wishes are expressed to the Copts by representatives of institutions. ...
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  28 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest assaulted and handcuffed, "the arms trade is flourishing", denounces the Bishop Irapuato (Agenzia Fides) - "The violent assault committed by armed men against the parish of the Señor de la Clemencia in Irapuato, is a painful affront to the whole community", said the Bishop of the Diocese of Irapuat ...
• 28 April 2016
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Geita Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 April 2016 the Holy Father appointed rev. Flavian Kassala, director of the Stella Maris Mtwara College as Bishop of the Diocese of Geita (Tanzania). The new Bishop of Geita was born ...
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  27 April 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The education of children in Cambodia is the aim of Catholic Mission Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment and efforts carried out by sister Eulie Desacula and the Daughters of Charity in favor of the most vulnerable children in Phnom Penh with their innovative institution Mobile Tuk ...
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  27 April 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The commitment of "Silsilah" movement for dialogue Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - Formation and experience of dialogue: this is the proposal of the "Silsilah" Movement, founded in southern Philippines by missionary Fr. Sebastiano D'Ambra, of the Pontifical Institute fo ...
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  27 April 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Three women killed because deaf Leveque (Agenzia Fides) - Three deaf mothers were found dead on the road that goes from the Haitian capital to Leveque. They were returning home on foot together because a bridge had collapsed and there was no bus servic ...
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  27 April 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Statement of the Bishops on death penalty: "Today it is unacceptable" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "Human life is a gift from God, and therefore we are obliged to respect and protect it from the first moment of conception until its natural end", reads the first lines of the communiqué of the Pe ...
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  27 April 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The army releases a hundred children kidnapped during the Gambella massacre Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) – Ethiopia’s military entered the territory of South Sudan to try to save hundreds of children abducted from Ethiopia by a group of southsudanese armed men. According to Ethiopian radio st ...
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  27 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal: Christian couple sentenced to death for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal has been filed to the Court of Appeal and the first hearing will take place in May regarding a Christian couple Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar. This was reported to Fides by the ...