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  28 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO RD - Internal and international pressures increase in order to hold elections by the end of the year Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Internal and international pressures on President Joseph Kabila increase so presidential elections can be held by the end of 2017.The Lucha (Lutte pour le Changement) movement, based in Goma, i ...
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  27 July 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Dialogue on illegal mining, a first positive approach Antioquia (Agenzia Fides) – The meeting between Colombian Minister for Mining and Energy Carlos Andrés Cante and the Catholic Bishops held on 24 July in order to clarify the main points of this activity in different p ...
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  27 July 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Hundreds of children wear fancy-dresses for the Santiago Wanka feast Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) – The schoolchildren of seven school institutes gave life to the start of the traditional Santiago Wanka feast in Huancayo province. With great enthusiasm, hundreds of children represented the ...
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  27 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - A church burned in Mapuches conflict area in Chile Vilcun (Agenzia Fides) – An evangelical church has been burned to the ground along the road from Cajon to Vilcun. According to a note by Radio Bio Bio, sent to Fides, the arson attack happened late Tuesday, July 25. ...
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  27 July 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - After tensions on the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Al Azhar convenes an "International Conference" on Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The University of Al Azhar, the most prominent academic-theological center of Sunni Islam, announced the decision to convene an International Conference on Jerusalem by September next year to disc ...
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  27 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Opposition launches operation "Dead City" and civil disobedience to send Kabila away Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Two days of "dead city" throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo to "send" President Joseph Kabila away have been announced by the opposition which recognizes itself in the "Rassemblement". ...
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  27 July 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Archbishop of Kumasi: "Ghanaians involved in illegal mining are the wicked citizens who seek the fall of the country" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Ghanaians involved in illegal mining are the wicked citizens who seek the fall of the country over their personal interest, denounced His Esc. Mgr. Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye, Archbishop of Kumasi ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A bomb explodes at the entrance of the Episcopal Conference, appeal for calm Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 25, a bomb exploded at the main entrance of the Mexican Episcopal Conference headquarters in Mexico City around 1.50 am, causing some damage but no one was injured. "We appreciate t ...
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  26 July 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church launches an awareness campaign against female genital mutilation Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Orthodox Coptic Church is about to launch an intense awareness campaign among its faithful against the practice of female genital mutilation, which continues to be widespread among Coptic Chri ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - In debt with childhood: Dominican children are deprived of their rights Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 13% of minors in the Dominican Republic are forced to work, about 15% do not go to school and 28% are married or cohabit. These alarming data have been reported by the "In Debt with ...
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  26 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Goic Karmelic's reflection: For a democracy based on values Rancagua (Agenzia Fides) - "The debate in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies last week, on the abolition of abortion, saddened me with regards to democracy based on values which since my childhood I was taught to nurture ...
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  26 July 2017
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Start-ups against counterfeit medicines Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - It is estimated that about 10% of the medicines in the world are counterfeit, a figure equivalent to 85 billion euros, according to the Institute for Research Against Counterfeit Medicines in Pari ...
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  26 July 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Justice and Peace: "No to the law that permits open grazing" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent activities of herdsmen in our country causing violence and destruction of farm lands and properties have become an issue that we must not neglect, especially in the Middle Belt", says ...
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  26 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Pressure continues to involve Christians in the referendum on independence in Kurdistan Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Political leaders of the autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan continue to manifest in various ways the intention to involve Christians in support of the referendum convened for next September 25 i ...
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  25 July 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishops on the decriminalization of abortion: With more force than before, we promote the value of life Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Following the approval of the draft law by the Chilean Senate that decriminalizes the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in three particular cases, "there will be laws on euthanasia and so on" ...