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  21 April 2016
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Social peace at risk due to falling oil and gas prices t Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - The sharp decline in oil prices (oil in the first place, plus gas whose cost is related to the first) is likely to have social and political repercussions on those Countries whose main source of ...
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  21 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Mata fears a return to the law of the jungle after the violent death of the mayor of Ayala Estelí (Agenzia Fides) - "It hurts me, as a citizen and as pastor, (...), especially when we talk about a person who followed appropriate channels to raise the issue, but it seems that things are even worse than before. ...
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  21 April 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Turkish State opens a case to recover the lands returned to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in recent years Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - Turkey has opened a case against the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, to cancel the legal acts with which some land were returned to the Orthodox Patriarchal See, in compliance with the ...
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  20 April 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A missionary: "Our support and our prayer is needed" Esmeraldas (Agenzia Fides) - Don Luis Fernando Criado Reca, Spanish diocesan priest of Jaen, has been a missionary in Ecuador for 12 years. He is currently parish priest in the northern province of Esmeraldas, on the bor ...
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  20 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A thousand young Indians at WYD in Krakow New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - There will be over a thousand young Indians who will attend World Youth Day (WYD) in Krakow, Poland, and about two million young people are expected. This is what the Indian Bishops' Conferenc ...
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  20 April 2016
  ASIA/NEPAL - One year after the earthquake, Caritas is committed to ensuring a future for the affected families Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - A year after the earthquake that on April 25, 2015 devastated Nepal, followed by that of the equally strong earthquake on May 12, about 2.8 million (more than 10% of the population) people are ...
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  20 April 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The formation of a national unity government is necessary to tackle food emergency Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "If it were not for the tragic situation, one might say that we are facing a farce" say to Agenzia Fides local sources from Juba, capital of South Sudan, where people are still awaiting the arrival ...
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  20 April 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christian School workers take to the streets to demand the reform of the Palestinian social security system Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - Even Christian school workers participated in the demonstration in which thousands of Palestinians called for a new social security reform and expressed their disagreement with the decree law t ...
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  20 April 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A priest who disappeared a week ago found dead St. Augustine (Agenzia Fides) - Father Rene Wayne Robert, a priest of the Diocese of Saint Augustine in Florida, 71, who disappeared last week, was found dead in Georgia, on Monday, April 18, as informs the police in an ...
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  20 April 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Exhibition of "old missionary postcards" from Anatolia Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - An exhibition of postcards was inaugurated in recent days at the Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Center, sponsored by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which offers a historical testimo ...
• 20 April 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Policemen in riot for the killing of a policeman and set fire to 139 homes Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Policemen in riot for the killing of a policeman and set fire to 139 homes last weekend in Mombeleke area in Sankuru, in eastern Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The policeman had bee ...
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  19 April 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - The religious before the Araucania challenge, human trafficking, drug trafficking Padre Hurtado (Agenzia Fides) - "In a system that proclaims that salvation is in power, in wealth, in the monopoly of knowledge, there are situations which cry out. The reality challenges us and is fundamental to us: hum ...
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  19 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The suspect of the lynching of two Christian spouses released on bail Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The main suspect of the double murder of the Christian couple Shahzad Masih, and Shama Bibi, burned alive by a mob of Muslims for alleged blasphemy on November 4, 2014 was released on bail. As re ...
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  19 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops call on teachers in Oaxaca to demonstrate without violence: "their fight is right" Oaxaca (Agenzia Fides) - "The fight that teachers, pensioners and non are carrying out in front of the Government Palace is right, and the Church cannot remain silent, because it is our duty to support and listen to thei ...
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  19 April 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Christian communities file an appeal against the expropriation of the churches in Diyarbakir Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Syriac Foundation and representatives of the local evangelical Christian community have appealed to the Court in Diyarbakır against the provision of urgent expropr ...