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  15 April 2016
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Half a million children in conditions of neglect Quito (Agenzia Fides) - At present there are 500,000 children and adolescents in the age group between 0 and 17 years, living without any family ties completely left on their own in Ecuador. This is what emerges from a s ...
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  15 April 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem: Israel behaves as a theocratic State Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Israel, "although it proclaims itself a secular and democratic State, it is really behaving more and more like a denominational Jewish military regime". This is how the Latin Patriarch of Jeru ...
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  15 April 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Food disaster, but "the real crisis will be in June" says a missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The month of June will lead to an unprecedented food crisis" foresees Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Monfort missionary, who sent a note to Agenzia Fides on the dramatic food situation in Malawi. "Ba ...
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  15 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In Faisalabad, the Church nurtures ecumenism and interreligious dialogue Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Ecumenism and interreligious dialogue are fundamental steps of life, essential in a country like Pakistan: this is what emerged from the recent interreligious meeting held in the diocese of F ...
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  15 April 2016
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: a rosary a day, until the elections Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Reminding the faithful of the power of prayer, the Filipino Bishops urge the faithful to pray the rosary every day until the elections of May 9. "Pray the mysteries of joy, light, sorrow and glor ...
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  15 April 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Mass in Nairobi for the 4 Mother Teresa sisters killed in Yemen Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The religious men and women belonging to various congregations and orders in Kenya will remember the four Missionaries of Charity killed in Yemen at a Eucharistic celebration this Saturday on Ap ...
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  14 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Vera against suspected alms: "Money, the more you wash it, the more you dirty your conscience" Coahuila (Agenzia Fides) - "Money must never be washed, because the more you wash it, the more you dirty your conscience", said His Exc. Mgr. José Raúl Vera López, OP. Bishop of Saltillo (Coahuila, Mexico), during the ...
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  14 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic priest’s body found hanging in Karnataka Mysore (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a parish of Mysore diocese, in the state of Karnataka, in southwest India. The lifeless body of Fr. Raja Kannu, 56, was found ha ...
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  14 April 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Nearly half of minors and adolescent workers receive no remuneration Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - According to a recent report by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), at a national level, the last quarter of 2015, 47.1% of the population in the age group between 5 to 1 ...
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  14 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians in the Nineveh Plain demonstrate in Erbil: Kurdish fixers have expropriated our lands Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, April 13 several hundred Christian Syrians, Chaldeans and Assyrians, from the region of Nahla, in the northern Iraqi province of Dohuk, organized a protest demonstration in front o ...
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  14 April 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - A work program for women and young people in poverty Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The non-profit organization Cuso International, engaged with its volunteers to fight poverty, has launched in Nicaragua the Voice work program, Voluntary work for International Cooperation and E ...
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  14 April 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Despite a UN Resolution the government in Kinshasa insists on the postponement of presidential elections Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Clash between the UN and the government in Kinshasa on the next elections. On 30 March the UN Security Council approved Resolution 2277, which calls on the government of the Democratic Republic ...
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  14 April 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Elections, the Church calls for "more cooperation" among the parties Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Saenuri Conservative Party, currently in power in South Korea, has lost the majority of seats in the Korean Parliament. According to the official results of the elections of 13 April, for the ...
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  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Media concerned about the threats to freedom of expression Juba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudanese media are concerned about the statements of a government spokesman who asked inter alia to "stop direct calls from citizens to express their views on radio talk shows". The Associat ...
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  14 April 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Professor of al-Azhar University: If the veil is banned, we must also ban the wearing of the cross Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - If laws ban Muslim women from wearing the full veil (niqab), at that point, to avoid discrimination, we must also ban Christian women wearing necklaces with crosses. This - as reported by the Egyp ...