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  16 November 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "National dialogue must respect the Constitution" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - National dialogue proposed by President Joseph Kabila should be respectful of the Constitution and should not give rise to forms of transition or extraordinary institutions. This is what the Bi ...
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  16 November 2015
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Poverty on the rise in Santa Fe and Chapinero: daily wage and lack of retirement among the causes Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The official figures of the Development Bogota Humana Plan on the poverty of many inhabitants of the town of Santa Fe and Chapinero are not positive. Daily wage or by instalments, loans, and the ...
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  16 November 2015
  AMERICA/PERU - Each year leukemia affects the health of 1,200 poor children Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Every year leukemia affects the health of about 1,200 boys and girls who live in poverty. It is actually a type of cancer that occurs frequently in childhood, especially between 3 and 4 years of ag ...
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  13 November 2015
  ASIA/IRAN - Executions: appeal for a moratorium Oslo (Agenzia Fides) - 648 people were executed in Iran in the first half of 2015 (from January 1 to June 18). Iran holds a very high average: every day about 4 executions are carried out. The average is much higher than ...
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  13 November 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Imam of al-Azhar condemns the attack on a Coptic evangelical church Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Attacks against places of worship "go against the authentic Islamic religion and its teachings of tolerance", but fail to undermine the unity of the Egyptian people. This is how Ahmed al-Tayyeb, G ...
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  13 November 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - A kindergarten, a language and professional training center for the displaced Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The violence committed by terrorists has aggravated an already very critical situation in Iraq, causing the flight of tens of thousands of people from the Nineveh plain towards Iraqi Kurdistan. Th ...
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  13 November 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - The President of Caritas Lebanon after the bombing in Beirut: our country is at risk Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The attack yesterday in the district of Beirut controlled by the Shiite of Hezbollah "tragically confirms the threat of destabilization that hangs over Lebanon. If the war continues in Syria, it ...
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  13 November 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Malaria spreading in the west of Darfur, while whooping cough in the north of Darfur El Geneina (Agenzia Fides) - The people living in El Geneina camps for the displaced in West Darfur complain about the spread of malaria, along with a shortage of affordable medicines. As of 28 October, 410 cases of whoo ...
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  13 November 2015
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Launch of "Ecclesia TV", Catholic television in the Ivory Coast Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Ecclesia TV", the Catholic television in the Ivory Coast will begin broadcasting on December 8. This was announced by Don Augustin Obrou, Head of Communication and External Relations of the Arc ...
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  13 November 2015
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Two more religious missionary nuns sent to Haiti: they will help children, youth and families Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The inter-congregational religious community in Haiti will receive two Brazilian missionaries: Sister Zenaide Laurentina Mayer, of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph, and ...
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  13 November 2015
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Episcopal Conference: "We need and want a change" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to say without fear that we need and want a change. We must have hope of real change", reads the final text of the Plenary Assembly of Bishops of Bolivia, held from 5-10 November in ...
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  13 November 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian activist shot in the legs Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Christian activist Aslam Masih, a volunteer and collaborator of the NGO "Legal Evangelical Association Development" (LEAD), committed to the free legal assistance to poor Pakistani Christians, wa ...
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  13 November 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER- Thousand Nigerian refugee families welcomed by families of Niger with the support of Caritas Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of displaced Nigerian families, fleeing the violence of the Boko Haram jihadist sect have been welcomed in Niger and receive assistance from Caritas Niger in the region of Diffa in sout ...
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  12 November 2015
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Minors not allowed to work in the sugarcane fields Chetumal (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (STPS) will not tolerate any child under 18 years of age to be employed in the harvesting of sugarcane for 2015-2016. In a statement to the loc ...
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  12 November 2015
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - "Cleaning" operation for Independence Day Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of children habitually live on the streets of Luanda, capital of Angola, where there are 8 million inhabitants. Most have families but have been abandoned for economic reasons or thrown ...