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  7 August 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Kurd leader Barzani writes to Christians in Kurdistan: in independent Kurdistan you will be safe at last Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – Now that the nation of Kurdistan “is taking steps towards independence, the needs and the rights of our Christian brothers and sisters will be protected at all levels, and so brotherhood and s ...
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  7 August 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Funds assigned for the Catholic Church in Haiti Washington (Agenzia Fides) – The United States Catholic Bishops Conference (USCCB), by means of its Commission for the Latin American Churches has assigned a sum of almost 6 million dollars: 4 to support the pastoral ...
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  7 August 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTORICO - Collecting shoes to enable children in Haiti to go to school San Juan (Agenzia Fides) – The We All Care, Inc non-profit organization has launched an appeal to people in Puerto Rico to get together to collect shoes for needy children aged 3 to 9 in Haiti. On that Caribbean islan ...
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  7 August 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Drugs and crime behind massacre in a church at Ozubulu Lagos (Agenzia Fides)- Yesterday Sunday 6 August 12 persons died and more than 20 were wounded in a shooting attack inside the church of Saint Philip at Ozubulu State of Anambra, in the south of Nigeria. Local Fides sou ...
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  5 August 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Young Catholics and Muslims celebrate together Asian Youth Day Yogyakarta (Agenzia Fides) – Gathered in workshops to talk with Bishops on matters such as respect for mothers, social ills such as drug addiction, corruption, abortion, poverty and the question of migrants, but also a ...
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  5 August 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Rohingya Muslims denied human rights Naypyidaw (Agenzia Fides) – The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has urged the government of Myanmar to respect the human rights of the repressed minorities of Rohingya Muslims. OIC chairman during a recen ...
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  5 August 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Election results shall be accepted and let no one incite to violence”, religious leaders warn Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “Election results shall be accepted and no one shall incite his or her respective supporters to violent action to contest the vote”. This is the message addressed by the religious leaders o ...
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  5 August 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO -“We are grateful to Congress for approving funds for the poorest of the poor” San Juan (Agenzia Fides) – We are grateful that Congress has approved a law which foresees a process to restructure the Island’s debt” say Archbishop Roberto O. González Nieves of San Juan de Puerto Rico and Rever ...
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  4 August 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Young people: key to counter radical Islam, especially on the web Yoyakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Young people are the key to countering radical Islam in Indonesia and its massive propaganda on the web: is what Savic Ali said, Muslim leader who heads the "Nahdlatul Ulama’s web page" (NU) ...
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  4 August 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Bishops: "We will not be a different Country unless we overcome naivety, passivity and indifference" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "We will not be a different Country unless we overcome naivety, passivity and indifference", concludes the final message of the meeting of the Pastoral Care for Social Action of the National Bi ...
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  4 August 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - On August 4, Bishop Enrique Angelelli, committed to the poor was killed La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - On August 4, 1976, Father Arturo Pinto and Mgr. Angelelli were returning from a celebration in honor of two priests killed. Along the way to Cordoba, two cars approached them and crushed agains ...
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  4 August 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Kasai victims of armed conflict continue to increase Luebo (Agenzia Fides) - Over the past two months, more than 140 children have died in the region of Kasai, DR Congo, because of armed conflict. The number of victims may be higher, with 500 reported cases of minors used ...
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  4 August 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - ‘Babylon Brigades’: Christians in Nineveh Plains should on no account be included in the upcoming Referendum for the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – The region of the Nineveh Plains and in particular the areas in which the country’s Christian communities are concentrated should on no account be included in the territories for the upcoming ...
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  4 August 2017
  VATICAN - The Holy See demands full respect for human rights and the suspension of new Constituent in Venezuela Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Fides gives here the unabridged text of a statement issued by the Holy See’s Secretary of State office regarding the situation in Venezuela: The Holy See reiterates its profound concer ...
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  4 August 2017
  EUROPE/FRANCE- Cardinal Filoni: may the saintly Curè d'Ars accompany the priests and seminarians in our young Churches Ars sur Formans (Agenzia Fides) - “As head of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, I call on Saint Jean-Marie Vianney to intercede for the seminaries and the clergy in our young churches in mission te ...