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  17 March 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Young people, hope of the Church in Pakistan: the key is education Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people are 60% of the Pakistani population. This data is very important for us Catholics. For our young Catholics, the priority is to make sure that they can grow in faith in Christ ...
• 17 March 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of San Jose in Mindoro Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of San Jose in Mindoro (Philippines), presented by His Exc. Msgr. Antonio P. Palang, S.V ...
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  17 March 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - First monument dedicated to Pope Francis inaugurated in the Middle East Hadath (Agenzia Fides) - The first statue dedicated to Pope Francis in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East was inaugurated in Hadath, municipality of the district of Baabda, considered part of the southern suburbs of ...
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  16 March 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Church clarifies: in the elections we do not give indications of vote in favor of individual candidates Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Church invites its faithful and all Egyptian citizens to participate in the upcoming presidential elections, to be held in Egypt from 26 to 28 March, but does not express prefe ...
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  16 March 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Church: "No" to the censorship of social media Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "The state should not control or censor social media because it would limit freedom of expression, nor should it stand as a moral arbiter of people": this is what Mgr. Silvio José Báez, auxili ...
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  16 March 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - State-Church convention violated: Catholic education "in a state of emergency" Riberalta (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Bishops raise their voices and with concern they address the parents of the pupils of the 1,523 Catholic educational institutions of the country: schools "cannot guarantee teachin ...
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  16 March 2018
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The director of Caritas Somalia: "To remain faithful to the Lord makes our life fuller" Djibouti (Agenzia Fides) - Maria Josè Alexander is a young Mexican Catholic, always attentive towards the poorest and most vulnerable sectors of society. After collaborating in the humanitarian sector, between Mexico, C ...
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  16 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - "Despicable and inhuman" attack on a Catholic hospital, committed to the common good Ujjain (Agenzia Fides) - It was a "despicable and inhuman" attack: this is how the Indian Bishops define and condemn the violent acts against the Catholic hospital in Ujjain, in the state of Madhya Pradesh. As Agenzia Fi ...
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  15 March 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkey demands life sentence for the evangelical pastor accused of belonging to Gülen’s "network" Izmir (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish Prosecutor of the Court of Izmir has formally demanded a life sentence for American evangelical pastor Andrew Craig Brunson, who was arrested in Turkey in autumn 2016. He is charged i ...
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  15 March 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Rewriting the history of India: a dangerous move for religious minorities New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Hindu nationalist organizations are trying to rewrite the history of India: a dangerous move for religious minorities such as Christians and Muslims. The ongoing effort is being promoted ...
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  15 March 2018
  AFRICA/SUDAN - An ecumenical coalition to cope with the cholera emergency in Darfur Nierteti (Agenzia Fides) - The threat of the spread of cholera which is now flooding the central and western areas of Darfur is particularly serious in the villages of Nierteti and Jebel Marra. Contagions continue to inc ...
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  15 March 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Youth in the Amazon: a daily journey to access basic education São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Agenzia Fides) - Living within the Amazon means facing the difficulty of accessing basic education. Education is usually carried out in the communities themselves, where schools, in most cases, ...
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  15 March 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops: "We urge all leaders across the political divide to support the newly found collaboration so that it does not remain a public relation exercise" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We urge all leaders across the political divide to support this path so that it does not remain a public relation exercise or a show of two individuals", said the Bishops of Kenya at the press ...
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  15 March 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Youth from unemployed to entrepreneurs, thanks to the Jesuits Douala (Agenzia Fides) - "Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, teach him how to fish and you will feed him for life". The Jesuits of West Africa have taken this ancient proverb to the letter. And, faced wit ...
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  14 March 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: the reform of the Church to transform it into a missionary sense Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us not forget that it is the Holy Spirit, dominum et vivificantem, the agent that incessantly moves the Church to a permanent purification and reformation of itself, so that it goes ah ...