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  17 May 2017
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - President Moon invites a pastor to bless the Blue House: "Be Wise as Solomon" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - As a good Catholic, before entering and settling in a new home, newly elected Korean President Moon Jae-in wanted the new home to be blessed. We are talking about the "Blue House", the official re ...
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  16 May 2017
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Chinese community will gather in Naples for the Day of Prayer for the Church in China Naples (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, May 21, at 11.30 am, the Chinese Catholic community in Italy will gather in Naples, in the parish of St. Mary of Constantinople at the Museum, to celebrate the World Day of Prayer for ...
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  16 May 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Help for children and families affected by the mud avalanche in Mocoa Mocoa (Agenzia Fides) - SOS Children's Villages International is at the forefront of the populations affected by the mud avalanche that hit the Colombian town of Mocoa on April 1st and caused the death of over 350 people ...
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  16 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest stabbed in the cathedral immediately after Mass Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Miguel Angel Machorro, who had just finished celebrating Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico D.F. was stabbed three times on the altar by a thirty-year-old man. According to w ...
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  16 May 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Inauguration of the church built in the village of Ismailia with the offerings of Muslims Minya (Agenzia Fides) - It took little more than a year to build the second church in the village of Ismailia, in the Egyptian province of Minya. The Christian place of worship was also built in a short space of time tha ...
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  16 May 2017
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Russia finances the restorations of "Star Street" in Bethlehem Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - The Russian government has decided to finance $ 4 million in restoration and reconstruction work in the historic center of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus. In particular, urban renovation w ...
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  16 May 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - Respect for laws and human rights is fundamental to managing migration Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Ghana’s natural resources have become a curse rather than blessings as a result of wanting distortion left behind by those involved in illegal mining of the earth for God given gifts of preciou ...
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  16 May 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal Nzapalainga and Bishop Aguirre mediate with the rebels in Bangassou Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, is at the head of the mediation mission that has convinced some hundreds of rebels to leave Bangassou, the city in the south-east of the Cen ...
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  16 May 2017
  AMERICA - CELAM's Socio-Pastoral Observatory to build the "geopolitics of hope" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - One of the purposes of the XXXVI Ordinary Assembly of the Latin American Bishops' Council (CELAM) just completed in San Salvador (see Fides 13/05/2017) was to carry out an assessment of the work ...
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  15 May 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Diocesan priests "with the smell of the sheep", in the spirit of Evangelii gaudium Palembang (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan priests in Indonesia are called to "have the smell of the sheep, to accompany the people of God in moments of joy, sorrow, in failures as in successes, and always instill joy and ...
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  15 May 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mgr. Arizmendi: "Do not spend money for political campaigns but for the needs of communities" San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no need to spend so much money in political campaigns, but has to be destined to the needs of communities, like communications in Chiapas": asks the Bishop of the Di ...
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  15 May 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAFRICA - Dramatic situation in the south-east: hundreds of dead in clashes; civilian refugees in churches and mosques Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - There are over 130 deaths in Alindao in the south-east of the Central African Republic, caused by armed groups who also attacked Bangassou (230km east of Alindao), where 6 Blue Helmets were kille ...
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  15 May 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Three Syriac Bishops ask for international protection for Christians in the Nineveh Plain. But the Chaldean Patriarchate dissociates itself Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The widespread statement released on Friday 12 May by three Syriac Bishops (a Syirac-Catholic and two Syriac-Orthodox) in northern Iraq, asking for the creation of a protected area reserved for Ch ...
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  15 May 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Mary, protagonist of the 2019 WYD logo created by a young Panamanian Panama (Agenzia Fides) - Ambar Calvo, a a 20-year-old student of architecture at the University of Panama, was the winner of the competition for the next World Youth Day logo (WYD), to be held in Panama from 22 to Januar ...
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  15 May 2017
  AFRICA/IVORY COST - The protests of the mutinied military continues; in Odienne the Bishop joins the mediation Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – In Abidjan and Bouaké the military have taken to the streets and continue protesting by shooting in the air and terrorizing the population. The mutinied demand the payment of the remainder o ...