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  2 October 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bilateral ceasefire between Government and ELN has begun, the Church protagonists in the path to peace Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "To help find the way to ensure peace, a solid and complete peace, this is the purpose of our participation in the dialogues", said His Exc. Mgr. Juan Carlos Barreto, Bishop of the Diocese of Qu ...
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  2 October 2017
  AMERICA/PORTO RICO - "United we stand, divided we fall ": Archbishop of San Juan’s appeal for the rebirth of the Country devastated by hurricanes San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "Puerto Rico has been demolished but not completely destroyed", reports to Fides Mgr. Roberto O. González Nieves, OFM, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico, President of the Epis ...
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  2 October 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Jesuits: One cannot build a nation on the dead bodies of the Filipino people Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot build a nation on the dead bodies of the Filipino people. We cannot fight evil with guns and bullets", said the Jesuits of the Philippines in a widespread appeal to all the dioceses, c ...
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  AFRICA/BOTSWANA - Apostolic Vicariate of Francistown elevated to Diocese and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, the Holy Father elevated the apostolic Vicariate of Francistown (Botswana) to Diocese with the same denomination and territorial configuration, making it a suffragan of the metropoli ...
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  2 October 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Church: "no to the independence of the Anglophone regions, yes to the administrative decentralization" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - At least seven people were killed in several clashes between separatist demonstrators and security forces in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon, where yesterday, Sunday 1 October, the independe ...
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  2 October 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch and the leader of Hezbollah: Syrian refugees must return to Syria Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is creating an unsustainable situation that can only be addressed by promoting the return of Syrian refugees to their Country. This is what Maronite Pat ...
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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 ...