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  25 April 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Earthquakes cause extreme difficulties for those affected by disability Quito (Agenzia Fides) – The death toll of the earthquake that just over a week ago struck Ecuador rises: more than 710 people have died or are missing, including some 16,600 injured and some are still in serious condit ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The Mass explained to young people, for the 400th anniversary of the Church of St. Andrew Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee of the 400th anniversary of the founding of St. Andrew's Church in Bandra, in Mumbai, was the occasion for a special celebration dedicated to the young: it was a Holy Mass animated wi ...
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  25 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - A predominantly Christian city bombed by Islamist rebels. Armed truce in Qamishli between the Kurdish militias and pro-Assad army Hama (Agenzia Fides) - Islamist militias linked to Al Qaeda Jabhat al Nusra Front group launched an attack with mortars on the Syrian city of Sqelbiya, a predominantly Christian city, in the central province of Hama on S ...
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  22 April 2016
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The ordeal and growing despair among the 2,500 Cubans blocked at the border continues David (Agenzia Fides) - "As Pastoral Social-Caritas Panama, from 6 to 18 April we visited along with some Caritas delegates of David, the centers where there are Cubans migrants in Paso Canoas. Here there are more than 2 ...
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  22 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Too much military presence indicates weakness": demonstration against the inter-oceanic canal Nueva Guinea (Agenzia Fides) - The military and police presence on the route that will follow the fourth national March against the inter-oceanic canal, scheduled for today, April 22, in Nueva Guinea, "scares" the popula ...
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  22 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Vargas: "Churches burned to solve the Mapuche conflict is unexplainable" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Temuco, His Exc. Mgr. Hector Eduardo Vargas Bastidas, S.D.B. in a testimony sent to Fides, highlights the situation after the attacks on churches which recently occurred in southern ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/MYANMAR - NGOs appeal to the government: need to face the crisis of the Rohingya Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – Need to face the crisis of the ethnic minority of Rohingya Muslims, who in the past five years have seen a dramatic escalation of human rights violations, marked by repression, discrimination a ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - St. Elisabeth Catholic hospital at the forefront in the country for the care of cancer patients Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - A special unit that provides home palliative care to cancer patients, with pain control therapy, has recently opened, and this is the first experience at a national level: the St. Elisabeth Ca ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Patriarchs of Antioch remember the two Bishops kidnapped: "We do not have the support of the 'giants'. Our only hope is in the Lord" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Three years since the disappearance of 2 Metropolitan Bishops of Aleppo - Syrian Orthodox Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Greek Orthodox Boulos Yazigi – the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antio ...
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  22 April 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - The death of Mgr. Thomas Zeng Jingmu, courageous witness of fidelity to the Church Yujiang (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, April 2, 2016, His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Zeng Jingmu emeritus and unofficial Bishop of the diocese of Yujiang, in Jiangxi Province (Mainland China) died at the age of almost 96. On Mar ...
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  21 April 2016
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - 57 percent of young Puerto Ricans live below the poverty line San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - As Congress debates legislative solutions for Puerto Rico's financial crisis (see Fides 18/03/2016, 12/04/2016), new reports indicate that the island's child poverty rate is worse than previous ...
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  21 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian couple lynched: the trial gets serious Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - It will not be easy to get justice for the death of the Christian couple Shahzaz Masih and Shama Bibi, lynched and burned alive in November 2014 by a crowd of Muslims in Kasur, for alleged blasph ...
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  21 April 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Young missionaries of mercy Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - With a mission to help their peers in every circumstance of life, for study, human, material and spiritual difficulties, a group of students in middle and high schools in Seoul have been named "yo ...
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  21 April 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - An initiative promoted by the Catholic Church: "Taxi against human trafficking" Johanneburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Taxi against human trafficking". This is the initiative promoted by the Catholic Church in South Africa to raise awareness among taxi drivers to fight this human and social evil. The projec ...
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  21 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Hindo: Armed clashes between the Syrian army and Kurdish militias in Qamishli Qamishli (Agenzia Fides) - The city of Qamishli, in the northeastern Syrian region of Jazira, has been since yesterday the scene of intense armed clashes between Kurdish militias and army forces loyal to the regime of Ba ...