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  19 February 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Presidential elections: tension for the arrest of Ugandan opposition candidate Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Ugandan’s main opposition candidate, Kizza Besigye, was arrested by the police this morning, February 19, along with Mugisha Muntu and Wasswa Biriggwa, two senior leaders of his party, the For ...
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  19 February 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "Solar power energy" used in the schools of the Latin Patriarchate Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Schools of the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem that choose to use solar panels to produce electricity increase. This is what is referred by official sources of the Latin Patriarchate, announci ...
• 18 February 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Assault against the camp for displaced people in the UN base in Malakal Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "From the first information we have the massacre in the UN camp in Malakal is due to tribal tensions", say to Agenzia Fides local sources from South Sudan, where on the night of 18 February an arme ...
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  18 February 2016
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Young people seek God through the Bible Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "We find God, not worshiping images or beautiful words, but when we apply the teachings that the Bible reveals to us": this is how Archbishop Osvaldo Padilla, Apostolic Nuncio in Korea, addressed ...
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  18 February 2016
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Justice and Peace: the plight of the Palestinians is "inhuman" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The present situation for the Palestinians in Holy Land is "inhuman" because of "settlers who occupy, day after day, Palestinian land ", from the poverty suffered by a million and a half inha ...
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  18 February 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Children and families of refugees in the detention camp on Manus Island: Protest of Churches and NGOs Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian government is ready to send 37 infants, 54 children and their immigrant families (267 people in all) to the detention camp organized on the island of Nauru, Manus Island, which ...
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  18 February 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - A Rosary and the "Misericordiae Vultus" sent by the Pope for the "hermit Bishop" Jounieh (Agenzia Fides) - Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai in recent days paid a visit to the convent of Our Lady of Tamiche, between Beirut and Jounieh, to meet with Maronite Bishop Charbel Merhi, who now lives in ...
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  18 February 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Presidential elections - the Bishops: "attention to dictatorial tendencies" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – The polls open today, 18 February, in Uganda for the presidential and parliamentary elections. President Yoweri Museveni, in power for 30 years, is given as favorite. The Ugandan Bishops in t ...
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  18 February 2016
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "Surprise" visits of the President to the poorest people living in the countryside continue San Francisco (Agenzia Fides) - A gesture of sensitivity, love and solidarity towards the poor who live in the countryside: this is how His Exc. Mgr. Fausto Ramón Mejía Vallejo, Bishop of San Francisco de Macoris, defi ...
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  18 February 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Political differences should never be resolved with violence", 6 deaths in the municipality of El Alto El Alto (Agenzia Fides) - The Defensoria del Popolo (Office for Human Rights) and the Catholic Church have called for a transparent investigation with regards to the serious incident that occurred yesterday, February 17, ...
• 18 February 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - Resignation of the Bishop of Wa and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 February 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Wa (Ghana), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Paul Bemile, in accordance with can. 401 § 1 of ...
• 18 February 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Resignation of the Bishop of Chinhoyi and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 February 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Dieter Bernd Scholz, S.I., in accordance ...
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  17 February 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Donating blood is an act of mercy Secunderabad (Agenzia Fides) - Donating blood as an act of mercy and compassion, to be rediscovered in the Jubilee Year: with this intention the "Catholic Health Association of India" (CHAI) organizes sessions of "blood ...
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  17 February 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop's warning: "The “drumbeats of war” are becoming louder as the country heads to the general elections" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The inciting comments by politicians is a common phenomenon that occurs before tribal clashes erupt, we must stop that", said His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Korir, Bishop of Eldoret and President of t ...
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  17 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Grand Imam al Tayyeb invited to the Vatican to relaunch dialogue between the University of Al Azhar and the Holy See Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Sheikh Ahmed al Tayyeb, Grand Imam of al-Azhar University, received an invitation to visit the Vatican to officially sanction the resumption of bilateral dialogue between the Holy See and the most ...