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  15 December 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - The Amazon and its inhabitants are protagonists of the Pope’s visit to Peru Puerto Maldonado (Peru) - The Amazon will be protagonist in the next apostolic visit of Pope Francis to Peru (18-21 January 2018). "For one day, January 19, Puerto Maldonado will be transformed into a large ecological su ...
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  15 December 2017
  VATICAN - Archbishop Dal Toso: "Mission is the thermometer of the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "When announcing the Kingdom of God, Jesus recalls that the Kingdom belongs to God: as Benedict XVI observes in his trilogy about Jesus, it is about a subjective genitive. The Kingdom does ...
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  15 December 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The sums paid to traffickers, to end up becoming slaves in Libya, could have created jobs in Nigeria" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - It is necessary to invest in Nigeria to create jobs, as well as to start effective campaigns to discourage Nigerians to try their luck in Europe by putting themselves in the hands of unscrupulous ...
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  15 December 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian refugees are "the undesirables", says Maronite Archbishop Nassar Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Refugees of the Syrian conflict "are crushed between two walls: they cannot go home, because the streets are blocked and their houses are in ruins, on the other hand the world despises them and ...
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  15 December 2017
  EUROPE/POLAND - The evangelization of the world entrusted to Our Lady of Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – To deepen the missionary spirit and entrust the missionary work of the Church to Mary's motherly protection: with this spirit over 400 people attended the evening prayer vigil for the evan ...
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  14 December 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Two dancers of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe killed, meaningless violence Ciudad Juárez (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no respect for anyone, it is the extreme of evil, how dare they?" asked the Bishop of the diocese of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (Mexico), Mgr. José Guadalupe Torres Campos, in a ...
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  14 December 2017
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Evangelical presence of the Barnabites and silent witness Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The mission of Catholics in Afghanistan is based on a particularity: it is almost exclusively made of silent testimony. When one is active in faith, there is no need for words. But let us ...
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  14 December 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - A school of agribusiness for young entrepreneurs, with the contribution of the Church Alito (Agenzia Fides) - An agribusiness project, with a professional training school dedicated to the agriculture and breeding sectors: this is the initiative desired by Alito, in the diocese of Lira, in northern Uganda, ...
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  14 December 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Court rules on Chiapas: peace on the horizon, humanitarian emergency remains San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - Peace is much closer in Chiapas. Yesterday afternoon the Agricultural Court issued a final decision on the process for the conflict of territorial boundaries between the munic ...
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  14 December 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Summit in Bkerké: Christian and Muslim leaders united in "no" to US choices on Jerusalem Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Every unilateral attempt to impose Jerusalem as the exclusive capital of the State of Israel represents an "unjust" act and contrary to all international pronouncements concerning the profile of ...
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  14 December 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - "Mali is the epicenter of jihadist groups that rage in Sahel" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation in different areas of Mali has been a concern for several months", says Fr. Edmond Dembele, General Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Mali, to Agenzia Fides, commen ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian government praises the service of the Church to the poor New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian government has praised the service rendered by the Catholic Church towards the poor, the marginalized and the needy in India. As Fides learns, on December 12 Indian Vice President V ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Violation of human rights on the indigenous of Papua Manokwari (Agenzia Fides) - A pastoral delegation composed of three members of the Asian Christian Conference (ACC) recently concluded a visit to the Indonesian province of West Papua, listening to stories about serious ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - A Muslim Prime Minister in a nation with a Catholic majority Dili (Agenzia Fides) - Although it is going through a turbulent political phase and its newborn government is in difficulty, Mari Bin Amudi Alkatiri is a Muslim Prime Minister who leads a country with a large Catholic ma ...
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  13 December 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï: the US move on Jerusalem "slap in the face of the Christians of the East". Islam-Christian summit tomorrow in Bkerkè Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The US Administration’s decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem "is a slap in the face of Palestinians, Christians, Muslims and all the Arabs". President Donald Trump' ...