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  7 April 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Assembly of Bishops: without the help of the laity there cannot be an "outgoing Church" Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "We sincerely hope that this meeting will help us to support and enhance the mission of the laity. There cannot be an "outgoing Church" without the help of the laity, and a just and fraternal ...
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  7 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - A Christian attacked because he proclaimed the Gospel in the street Patna (Agenzia Fides) – Beaten and stripped naked in the street: is the fate of the Christian Pentecostal Indian citizen attacked in the state of Bihar because he preached faith in Christ publicly. As reported to Fides ...
• 7 April 2016
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Diosdado Marqués Sabadell Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 4, 2016, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Diosdado Marqués Sabadell, of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraterni ...
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  7 April 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - How to encourage girls to study and avoid early marriages Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Zambia has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. More than 4 out of 10 women, aged between 20 and 24, get married when they are only 16. A destiny "already decided" for many yo ...
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  7 April 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Karekin II and Aram I will soon visit Nagorno Karabakh for their "solidarity with the people" Antelias (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholicos of the Armenians, Karekin II, and Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, Aram I, will together in the coming days visit Nagorno Karabakh, the region, with an Armenian majority ...
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  7 April 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "Come and you will see": a day for vocations in Seoul dedicated to teenagers Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Since 2009, the Archdiocese of Seoul celebrates the Day dedicated to vocations, in particular designed and conceived for teenagers: the Catholic Youth Day. As reported to Fides by the communicat ...
• 7 April 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - Resignation of the Bishop of Keta-Akatsi and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 7 April 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Keta-Akatsi (Ghana), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Anthony Kwami Adanuty, in ac ...
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  7 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - The Autonomous Region of Kurdistan takes charge of Christian civil servants forced to flee their lands Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan has renewed, until the end of 2016, the commitment to pay the salaries of Christian civil servants and public employees who worked in Mosul, in the Ninev ...
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  6 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - In the Syrian city of Sadad, the Christians who had to flee to Europe are beginning to return Sadad (Agenzia Fides) - In the Syrian city of Sadad, Christian families who had to flee to Europe to escape the violence of the conflict are beginning to return. This was reported to the Russian media by Suleiman al Khal ...
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  6 April 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Amnesty law: the relatives of political prisoners call for the intervention of the Pope Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - A group of family members of Venezuela's political prisoners chained themselves yesterday afternoon at the entrance gate of the Apostolic Nunciature in Caracas, demanding the intervention of the ...
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  6 April 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Over three million working children Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - More than 3 million underage children and young Brazilians are involved in the labor market, 31% in agriculture. This is what emerges in a report recently submitted by the Abrinq Foundati ...
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  6 April 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - New air raids on the Nuba Mountains Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Local Church sources confirmed to Agenzia Fides what the rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) denounced, according to which the Sudanese air force has carried out a ...
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  6 April 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - New Franciscan fraternity in Turkey Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - To witness the Gospel, promoting ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and dialogue with culture, in specific ways, through Francis of Assisi’s example: this is the spirit with which the Fri ...
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  6 April 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The serious situation of drug trafficking denounced by the Bishops, who gather in Assembly Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, April 7, the Bishops of Bolivia will meet in Assembly in Cochabamba. According to the note sent to Fides, the meetings of the working groups of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference Comm ...
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  6 April 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Syriac Orthodox Church: the arrest of Metropolitan Swerios is offensive and humiliating Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - The Syriac Orthodox Church considers the way the Palestinian police arrested Metropolitan Swerios Malki Murad, Patriarchal Vicar of the Holy Land "insulting". Such police custody – which too ...