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  13 April 2016
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops: "drug trade threatens the peaceful and democratic coexistence of the country" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Bolivia (CEB) has reiterated the seriousness of the problem of drug trafficking, which "threatens the peaceful and democratic coexistence of the Country". This is what ...
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  13 April 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Migration: Caritas Africa and Europe at a seminar in Dakar Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – To make proposals for migration policies that go beyond the current approach based solely on security, through a partnership between African and European countries. This is what will be discusse ...
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  13 April 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - An agreement has been signed that prohibits the employment of children in fields Chihuahua (Agenzia Fides) - In the Mexican state of Chihuahua no farmer will be able to employ child workers as in all other States of the Country. Local authorities, along with 250 farm owners, have recently signed an a ...
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  13 April 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: priests must not favor or even arrange the exodus of Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Church as such, and especially priests, should in no way be involved directly in operations and programs to plan and organize the exodus of Iraqi Christians to foreign countries, and anyone ...
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  13 April 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Don Benoît Kinalegu has passed away, the priest who was next to the victims of the LRA Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Don Benoît Kinalegu, the Catholic priest who alerted the world to the terrible abuses of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Congo, passed away at only 53 years of age. In particular, it was ...
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  13 April 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assad invites a "high-level delegation'' of the Patriarchate of Moscow to Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad has invited a ''high-level delegation'' of the Russian Orthodox Church to visit Syria, at a time when the Syrian government army seems to have reversed the dest ...
• 12 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Erection of the Diocese of Rayagada and appointment of the First Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 April 2016 the Holy Father erected the new Diocese of Rayagada, in India, with territory taken from the Diocese of Berhampur, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Cuttack- ...
• 12 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Dindigul Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 April 2016 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Mgr. Thomas Paulsamy, Pastor of St. Anthony's Church in Kallukuzhy, former Vicar General of the diocese of Tiruchirapalli as Bishop of the Di ...
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  12 April 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The South Asian Franciscans are committed to the poor and marginalized Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscans of the South Asian countries reaffirm their commitment to serve the poor and marginalized, helping, in particular, to respond to the most pressing social issues that occur in S ...
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  12 April 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Inhumane conditions for children and workers found in a warehouse for packaging Maipu (Agenzia Fides) - Following a Government inspection in a warehouse for packaging in the department of Maipú, province of Mendoza, workers and children were found living in inhuman conditions in these unhealthy env ...
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  12 April 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Poverty, abuse and family conflicts are forcing children to live on the streets New York (Agenzia Fides) - A report by the National Center on Family Homelessness (NCFH) revealed that, in 2015, 2 and a half million children in the United States were living in shelters, on the streets, in cars, or in ...
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  12 April 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa’s appeal in the face of lynchings and widespread violence: "Do not kill" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, yesterday published a letter, also signed by the four auxiliary Bishops, in which he condemned the lynching of criminals as sin. "With dee ...
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  12 April 2016
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - A growing crisis: teachers risk retirement San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - While the Puerto Rican government cannot seem to recover from the deep economic crisis in which it has collapsed (see Fides 18/03/2016), now teachers in public and private schools risk retireme ...
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  12 April 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishops: need to remove the contents of hatred in school textbooks Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to remove the contents of hatred and prejudice towards religious minorities in school textbooks in use in schools across the country: is the appeal launched by the National Commissi ...
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  12 April 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops denounce: "Corruption is killing the country" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The cancer of corruption is killing our Country. Are we heading towards a society without God, plagued by tribalism, in which money has become the only God": is the sharp cry of alarm of the Bi ...