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  5 September 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Anti Balaka are not Christians", says Cardinal Nzapalainga Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - We want a united Central Africa, where Christians and Muslims live in peace. This is what Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui and Imam Oumar Kobine Layama said in an interview t ...
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  5 September 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A new facility for pregnant women from areas without medical facilities Araguaina (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Tocantinopolis, Mgr. Giovane Pereira de Melo, blessed the premises of the new House for pregnant women, babies and for women who have just given birth of the Don O ...
• 5 September 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A local NGO denounces a Pygmy massacre in the east of the Country, Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A Pygmy massacre was carried out in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to a statement from CEPADHO (a local NGO) to Agenzia Fides, on September 2, some ADF guerrillas (a ...
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  5 September 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishops: "We all ask for an attitude of dialogue for the international image of the country" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Guatemala, in a statement sent to Fides, deplore the current situation of the country and express "their concern for the political and ideological confrontation around the ...
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  5 September 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Agreement for the ceasefire between ELN and government Quito (Agenzia Fides) - With a press conference in Quito,the Colombian government and representatives of the National Liberation Army (ELN) yesterday announced the bilateral ceasefire until January 2018. The Foreign Mini ...
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  5 September 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Muqtada al Sadr in the Vatican? So far no official request (and no invitation) Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Announcements and rumors which have circulated in the past few days regarding a next visit to the Vatican by Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr and his possible encounter with Pope Francis have ...
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  4 September 2017
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Formation at the center of Scalabrinian Family meeting Solothurn (Agenzia Fides) - In the current political climate, where irreconcilable conflicts, injustice and fears for security prevail which push towards self-defense and closure, there seems to be an increasing need for ...
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  4 September 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church in Pakistan proclaims the Year of the Eucharist Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to make the Eucharist the center of our Christian life, our families and our homes": with this spirit, the Catholic Church in Pakistan celebrates 2018 as a special "Year of the Eucharist ...
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  4 September 2017
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Emigrants from Africa and Asia increase, Church denounces the governments’ indifference San José (Agenzia Fides) - A boat carrying emigrants from Africa and Mongolia sank on Friday 1 September in the waters off Northwest Costa Rica, resulting in one death and a child is missing, according to El Heraldo new ...
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  4 September 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "The judicial system has lost credibility" denounces Mgr. Muñoz Zamora Coatzacoalcos (Agenzia Fides) - "We must try to make sure that this justice is not blind and takes into account the social conditions of people, otherwise these institutions completely lose their credibility", emphasized ...
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  4 September 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Still tensions between the Chaldean Patriarchate and some Christian political acronyms Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Patriarchate responded with an official note to the recent criticisms publicly addressed to Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako by the Chaldean National Congress, a political acronym found ...
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  4 September 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest in southern Nigeria kidnapped and killed Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A Nigerian priest, Fr. Cyriacus Onunkwo, was kidnapped and killed in the state of Imo, southern Nigeria. According to the police, in the late afternoon of 1 September Fr. Onunkwo’s car was bloc ...
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  4 September 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Arson caused fire in a high school in Nairobi that killed 9 students Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Nine pupils at Moi girls' boarding school in Kibera, Nairobi were killed in a fire during the night of September 2 (see Fides 2/9/2017). Today Education Minister Fred Matiang'i updated the toll ...
• 1 September 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of "Saint Augustin" Major Seminary in Maroua Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 22, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed, rev. Alin Djeckabe, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Garoua as Rector ...
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  1 September 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Fourth border Bishops' Meeting: "Need to avoid the criminalization of migrants" Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - Migration has now become a "humanitarian crisis" on the southern border of Mexico with the Central American area: is one of the conclusions drawn up by the Bishops who participated in the Fou ...