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  27 April 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic deputy: we will bring the case of the murder of Giulio Regeni in Parliament Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The case of the murder of the Italian researcher Giulio Regeni will be among the "major priority" on the agenda of the Parliamentary Commission for Human Rights of Egypt’s House of Representativ ...
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  27 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in Baghdad on a pilgrimage to Ur of the Chaldeans Bassora (Agenzia Fides) - It was the biggest pilgrimage made by Iraqi Christians in recent years: about 200 Chaldeans from Baghdad went to Ur, the historical site of lower Mesopotamia, now in the Iraqi governorate in Dhi ...
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  26 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Evangelical church set on fire, still in the name of the Mapuche cause Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - Another church in the Chilean region of La Araucania was set on fire: last night the fire destroyed an evangelical church, in the municipality of Padres Las Casas. Although firefighters arrived o ...
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  26 April 2016
  AFRICA - Malaria can be cured: prevention and access to treatment Padova (Agenzia Fides) - Malaria in Africa today remains one of the most common diseases among adults and a major cause of death for children. Doctors with Africa Cuamm are present in 16 hospitals: Angola, Ethiopia, Moza ...
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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The "Clock Church" destroyed in central Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday April 24 the Latin church in the center of Mosul, historically officiated by the Dominican Fathers and known as the "Church of the Miraculous Virgin" or dubbed as the "Clock Church", was ...
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  26 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "The army must act in an ethical manner", says Mgr. Herrera on the conflict in Ayapal Ayapal (Agenzia Fides) - "The army of Nicaragua should proceed following the ethical principles in the existing conflict in the Ayapal community" said His Exc. Mgr. Carlos Enrique Herrera Guttierez OFM, Bishop of the dio ...
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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Minors in tears because forced to marry Chittorgarh (Agenzia Fides) - In Chittorgarh, a city of Rajasthan in northern India, where early marriage is widespread, a secret video shows child brides sobbing because they are forced to marry. Six marriages took plac ...
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  26 April 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Copts return to Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Palm Sunday, celebrated the day before yesterday by the Churches that follow the Julian calendar, saw an exponential increase of Egyptian Coptic pilgrims who have come to celebrate the rites of Ho ...
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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops meet the Prime Minister: "We invite the Pope to India" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of Indian Bishops met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The group was led by the President of the Bishops' Conference (CBCI), Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, accompanied by the Gene ...
• 26 April 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Appointment of the Bishop of Mzuzu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 26 April 2016 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Fr. John Alphonsus Ryan, a Missionary of St. Patrick's, Society (Kiltegan), Professor at the University of Mzuzu, as Bishop of the diocese of ...
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  26 April 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - For 150 years, the Mother of Perpetual Help accompanies the Redemptorist missionaries in the world Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Today is the 150th anniversary of the restoration to public veneration of the icon of Mary Mother of Perpetual Help, entrusted to the Redemptorist missionaries by Pope Pius IX in 1866 with a commit ...
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  26 April 2016
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Long trail of targeted killings: "Christians continue their pastoral and social activities" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are aware, concerned but not alarmed. Fanatical groups are spreading death, but we hope that the government can control them. The pastoral and social activities of the Church continues": says ...
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  25 April 2016
  EUROPE/ITALY - Teenage pregnancy and its consequences on the lives of young women in Africa Padova (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time ever, Italy celebrated “Women’s Health Day” this year in order to focus the nation’s attention on the issue of women’s health care and prevention and to underscore th ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Ecumenical Patriarch wants to meet Erdogan to talk about the Theological Institute of Halki Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, wants to meet President Tayyip Erdogan to talk about the status of the Patriarchate, and above all would like clarification on the rece ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl kidnapped and victim of forced marriage and conversion to Islam: the phenomenon does not stop Kasur (Agenzia Fides) - Help his daughter, victim of abduction, forced marriage and conversion to Islam: is the appeal launched by Sarwar Masih, a Pakistani Christian who asked the help of lawyer Sardar Mushtaq Gill, hea ...