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  21 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Beni: a "dead city" for three days to ask for the release of the two abducted priests Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A "dead city" for three days to demand the immediate release of the two priests kidnapped on Sunday, July 16. Yesterday, July 20, the civil society of Beni in the North Kivu province, in the ...
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  21 July 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Cardinal Lacunza has been asking to resolve the situation of Cubans blocked in Panama for months David (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal José Luis Lacunza O.A.R., Bishop of the Diocese of David (Panama), has asked the government to resolve the situation in which Cuban migrants are still blocked at the Los Planes de Gualac ...
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  21 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: there is an attempt to put a hand on the towns of the Nineveh Plain Bhaghdad (Agenzia Fides) - It is unfortunate that the "attempt to put a hand on the towns of the Nineveh Plain, through public or concealed struggles is imposing a negative influence on the native people of this land". T ...
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  21 July 2017
  AFRICA/CAMER00N - Death of the Bishop of Bafia: The Episcopal Conference has lodged a complaint for murder Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Cameroon have filed a lawsuit for an inquiry into the death of His Exc. Mgr. Jean-Marie Benoît Bala, Bishop of Bafia, whose body was found in the Sanaga River, 2 June. The Bishop ...
• 21 July 2017
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Keetmanshoop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father accepted the renunciation of the pastoral governance of the diocese of Keetmanshoop (Namibia), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Philipp Pöllitzer. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 21 ...
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  20 July 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - Summer camp, school of faith and life for children Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Some recited the rosary for the first time and learned how to use the crown, some participated in the Mass for the first time from beginning to end, and there are those who are more discipline ...
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  20 July 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Churches in Jerusalem on the tensions around al-Aqsa-Mosque/Haram esh-Sharif: no to measures that alter the Status Quo Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Leaders and representatives of all Churches and Christian communities in Jerusalem express "serious concern" regarding the new spiral of tension and violence around Haram ash-Sharif. With a do ...
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  20 July 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Mgr. Gualberti after the gunfight: "These deaths must shake our conscience" Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "First and foremost, it is urgent to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation to eliminate any possible doubt on what happened. We must also take preventive measures, such as having w ...
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  20 July 2017
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Operation Dove": for 25 years a nonviolent presence in the theaters of war Rimini (Agenzia Fides) - "Operation Dove", nonviolent peace Corps of the Pope John XXIII COMMUNITY (APG23) founded by Don Oreste Benzi, celebrates its 25 anniversary. It was established in the summer of 1992, in the wake ...
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  20 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Postponement of the general elections; the hypothesis of a transition without Kabila or separate elections is being considered Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The announcement on July 7 on behalf of the President of the Electoral Commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Corneille Nangaa, on the fact that the parameters in his possession do not ...
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  20 July 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Citizens of the Christian village of Alqosh protest against the mayor's removal from office Alqosh (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of citizens in Alqosh, a Christian majority city of the Nineveh Plain, participated in the protest march that this morning Thursday, July 20, crossed the central streets of the town cent ...
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  20 July 2017
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Inauguration of a new temple dedicated to the Christ of Esquipulas San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn Mass presided by His Exc. Mgr. Ángel Garachana, Bishop of the diocese of San Pedro Sula, a new temple dedicated to the Christ of Esquipulas was inaugurated. The solemn ritu ...
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  20 July 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops: "No to the registration of pastors and ministers of religion" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The recommendation that new laws be introduced to enforce registration of pastors and ministers is overkill and a response that one would expect more from a totalitarian state than a const ...
• 19 July 2017
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Claudio Santangelo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 11, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Fr. Claudio Santangelo, of the Congregation of the Mission (CM) Lazar ...
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  19 July 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Home-to-Home" campaigns to prevent cholera Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Presentations on the streets, online videos, posters, bars of soap: are some of the local initiatives that have been done to help people fight against infection and raise awareness about the ra ...