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  30 August 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Indigenous Peoples, subject of the New Evangelization Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Open a space for reflection and dialogue in order to unite the efforts that are being made at the service of indigenous peoples so that they become "subjects of the New Evangelization": this ...
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  30 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Day of the Martyrs of Orissa: Church and civil society seek justice Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A thorough and independent investigation of the police and the judiciary; adequate compensation that include Churches and humanitarian organizations; prosecute government officials and polic ...
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  30 August 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Wave of killings against civilians in Yei: for the Bishop "heinous actions and unspeakable crimes" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Heinous actions and unspeakable crimes". This is how Mgr. Erkolano Lodu Tombe, Bishop of Yei, in Southern Sudan, condemned the wave of killings against the inhabitants of the city and surrounding ...
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  30 August 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Monastery will make a film on Pope Shenouda III Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Monastery of Anba Bishoy, founded by Saint Bishoy in the fourth century A.D. in Wadi al-Natrun (one hundred kilometers north of Cairo), will make a film on Pope Shenouda III, the Patr ...
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  30 August 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Protest march authorized by the Supreme Court violently repressed; Police accused Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The violent repression of opposition demonstrations by Zimbabwean police has been criticized by several humanitarian organizations. On Friday, August 26 a protest demonstration organized by 18 op ...
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  29 August 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Two Sisters killed: women of faith, at the service of the poor Durant (Agenzia Fides) - Two nuns, Sisters Margaret Held, of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN), and Sister Paula Merrill, of the School Sisters of St. Francis (SSSF), were killed with knives in their home in Duran ...
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  29 August 2016
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The Apostolic Prefect: "With the first priest, the Church in Mongolia is a mother who gives birth to a child" Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank the Lord who has called me to serve him through priesthood. I am also grateful to all the people who helped me to answer this call. I hope there will soon be other vocations to prie ...
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  29 August 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Political maneuvers on the future of the Nineveh Plain. The Chaldean Patriarch: it is unwise to talk now of self-determination Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The future political and administrative arrangement of Mosul and the Nineveh Plain, after the eventual liberation of those areas still under the control of the self-proclaimed Islamic State jiha ...
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  29 August 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops: "We cannot irresponsibly give in to the perverse logic of violence" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "We, Bishops of Bolivia, raise our voice of pain, indignation and denunciation regarding the spiral of violence that engulfs our country in this period and has already caused the deaths of at ...
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  29 August 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Missionaries of Charity attacked at home, desecrated the tabernacle Mar del Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The Missionary Sisters of Charity living in Mar del Plata, were attacked and beaten in their home. Criminals also desecrated the tabernacle of the chapel and managed to steal 50 pesos, all ...
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  29 August 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The bill on the construction of churches under the consideration of the Council of State Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of the Egyptian Council of State in charge of evaluating the legislative work has begun its review of the new draft law on the construction of churches, whose latest version was pre ...
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  29 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Practice mercy in the media Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) – Put into practice mercy even in working with the media: in this spirit the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Mumbai lived a seminar in which they deepened some techniques and the use of c ...
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  27 August 2016
  ASIA/JORDAN - Bishop Lahham to Jordanian Christians: in the elections vote who spoke good of the Church Amman (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for September 20, Christians of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan are called to exercise their right and duty to vote in a consciou ...
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  27 August 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Violent raid in a Christian neighborhood in Faisalabad Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian area "Khushal Town" in Faisalabad was attacked in past days by a crowd of Muslims who caused injuries to some Christians, including women, four young people and a senior. Christ ...
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  27 August 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Protestant Pastor beaten by Hindu militants New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Sunny Tyagi, who converted to Christianity and became a Protestant Pastor, was beaten by a mob of Hindu radicals who broke into a private house where a prayer meeting in the district of Gonda, ...