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  2 October 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - Erdogan to the US: we will release Evangelical pastor Brunson if in return you hand over Fetullah Gulen Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is willing to release US Evangelical pastor Andrew Craig Brunson - detained in Turkey for one year and accused of espionage (see Fides 29/8/2017) if in exch ...
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  29 September 2017
  AMERICA/HAITI - Dialogue for socio-economic development restarts, even the Bishops meet the President Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - After only seven months since taking office as President of the Republic of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse is facing a situation that is putting him to the test. The population does not accept t ...
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  29 September 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another priest abducted in the south of Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic priest in the south of Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Lawrence Adorolo, of St. Benedict Catholic Church, Okpella in the State of Edo, was reportedly abducted. "Rev Adorolo was on his way back ...
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  29 September 2017
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Libyan Prosecutor: we know where the Coptic martyrs are buried, slaughtered by jihadists Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In a press conference held on Thursday 28 September Libyan General Prosecutor Al Sadiq al Sour reported that the place where the dead remains of the 21 Coptic Christians slaughtered by jihadists ...
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  29 September 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - In Parliament the new law against "hate speech": a step forward Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture of Myanmar has submitted a draft law against "hate speech" to Parliament. The measure will be discussed and submitted to legislators for possible cha ...
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  29 September 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - A Christian becomes President of the Syrian Parliament Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Hamoudeh Sabbagh ied, 59, is the first Christian elected President of the People's Assembly (the Syrian Parliament) in decades. In the election, which took place on Thursday 28 September, Chris ...
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  28 September 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - "Share the Journey" campaign begins, to welcome migrants who "too often seem invisible to us" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The worldwide campaign to support displaced people began yesterday, September 27. On the same day, several Bishops across the United States joined Pope Francis as he launched the "Share the J ...
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  28 September 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Economic and social crisis: minors, adolescents and older people in the streets rummaging for food among the waste Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The long economic and social crisis that Venezuela is experiencing and the great difficulty in finding groceries are having a worrying impact on children and families living in more vulnerable s ...
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  28 September 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops alarm: "There is a risk of economic collapse and open conflict if political forces do not talk" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Majority and opposition must listen to IEBC’s (Independent Electoral Commission) invitation to dialogue, and chart the way forward with the aim of holding free, fair and credible Presidential ...
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  28 September 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - "Is the Gospel needed in Japan?" Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "A question remains carved in our minds and in our hearts. A question that Cardinal Fernando Filoni provocatively left us during his pastoral visit: Is the Gospel needed in Japan? Where and how to ...
• 28 September 2017
  VATICAN - Appointments at Propaganda Fide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples announced the following appointments: The Holy Father has appointed as Apostolic Nuncio in Gre ...
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  28 September 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church announces a conference on homosexuality. Patriarch Tawadros: marriage can only be heterosexual Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Orthodox Coptic Catholic Patriarch Tawadros II reiterates the unavailability of the Coptic Church to legitimize in any form, marriage among same-sex, while Coptic environments announce a forthcomi ...
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  27 September 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mapuche issue: clashes and arrests outside the Cathedral of Concepcion Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) - At least 30 people were arrested after a demonstration outside the Cathedral of Concepcion in southern Chile. During the demonstrations, several citizens who support 4 Mapuche activists who h ...
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  27 September 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Governor Nawfal al Akoub: more than 1,400 Christian families have already returned to the Nineveh Plain Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - More than 1400 Christian families have already returned to their homes and villages scattered in the Nineveh Plain, which they abandoned in the summer of 2014, due to the advance of the jihadist m ...
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  27 September 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A woman converts from Islam to Christianity: now she and her family risk their lives Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A Pakistani woman from Punjab who has chosen to convert from Islam to Christianity has been threatened with death and forced to flee from her home, to take refuge in a secret place and is hiding ...