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  7 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Teachers in the Nineveh province rebel against school programs imposed by jihadists Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - More than thirty teachers working in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, currently under the control of the jihadist Islamic State (Daesh), were stopped and arrested in the last hours for refu ...
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  7 January 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Country ignores the disabled in the fight against HIV, the blind and the deaf the hardest hit Chachacha (Agenzia Fides) - In Zimbabwe, home to 14 million people and, according to the National Association of Societies of Assistance to the Disabled, all over the country there are 1 billion 800 million disabled, dea ...
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  7 January 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Insufficient funds and closure of schools: 18,000 students without education El Fasher (Agenzia Fides) - In Zamzam refugee camp, near the town of El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, the schooling of about 18,000 students is at risk. According to local sources, the lack of funding has forced the c ...
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  7 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President al-Sisi attends Christmas Eve in the Coptic Cathedral Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took attended the Coptic Christmas Eve mass celebrated by the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II at the St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral on Wednesd ...
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  7 January 2016
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - USA Bishops support Obama's line on measures to limit the spread of weapons Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank God there is someone who finally has the courage to fill the gaps in our shameful laws on gun control in order to reduce the number of massacres, murders and suicides that have become ...
• 5 January 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Explosions in Bujumbura; in Nairobi Burundian opponents threatened with death Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - A strong explosion occurred near a Catholic convent in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi. The incident occurred yesterday, January 4. "We do not know well what happened", refer to Agenzia Fides lo ...
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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/SYRIA - Franciscan Dhiya Azziz released Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of Monday, January 4 the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land released a short statement confirming Fr. Dhiya Azziz OFM, a Franciscan friar, who disappeared on 23 December, has no ...
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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians and Muslims: Christmas as a "seed of peace" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - An interreligious meeting where to talk, celebrate, confront oneself on the theme of christmas starting from the Bible and the Koran: was the successful event organized by the Council for Interre ...
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  5 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Jesuit Refugee Service: it is urgent to address the "educational emergency" of Syrian children Jbeil (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 2.8 million Syrian children are out of school as a result of the war, 550,000 of whom are in Lebanon. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) center in Jbeil serves nearly 500 Syrian refuge ...
• 5 January 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Presidential elections: two-thirds of the candidates denounce fraud and call for the suspension of the counting of votes Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty of the 30 candidates in the presidential elections held on 30 December in the Central African Republic (see Fides 29/12/2015) yesterday, January 4, asked to stop the counting of votes, den ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new church dedicated to St. Peter in the Year of Mercy Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - A new church dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle is the gift that the Year of Mercy brings to the faithful of a small village near the town of Okara in the diocese of Faisalabad. As reported t ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanese PMS Director: Saudi execution of Imam al-Nimr has catastrophic consequences for Lebanon and the Middle East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The sentencing to death of Shiite Imam Nimr Bakr al-Nimr, commissioned by the Saudi government on January 2, "has as immediate effect the worsening of the Lebanese institutional crisis, but its c ...
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  4 January 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Martyrs in Orissa: Cardinal Gracias says "yes" Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) and President of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), wants the Churc ...
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  4 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar accuses the Coptic Church of inspiring anti-Islamic television programs Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The accusations launched by the al-Azhar Observatory against the Coptic Church with regards to anti-Islamic television programs broadcast by the channels of the NileSat platform were rejected by t ...
• 4 January 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops are committed to promoting dialogue in view of the 2016 election deadline Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo are committed to fostering dialogue among political parties and civil society in view of the 2016 election deadline. This was stated by Don Léon ...