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  15 March 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Six years of Syrian conflict. The Jesuits JRS: the war is not over Homs (Agenzia Fides) – Wednesday, March 15 marks the sixth anniversary of the conflict in Syria. And contrary to what is reported by international media, Syria "continues to suffer." This is the key message that the Je ...
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  14 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - A new center in Gaboto where children receive care, food, schooling Puerto Gaboto (Agenzia Fides) - A new reception center for minors, CCI, was opened in the town of Gaboto, in the southeast of the Department of San Jeronimo, Santa Fe province, with the aim of preventing and eradicating ...
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  14 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Solidarity Pots": parishes committed to giving food to the hungry Barquisimeto (Agenzia Fides) - Father Jesús Martínez, is a priest of San Francisco de Asís parish, in the Archdiocese of Barquisimeto, where there is the "olla solidaria" (literally "solidarity pot"), namely the daily ...
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  14 March 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - The Catholic Church in Ankara will host the liturgies celebrated by the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Orthodox Christians Ankara (Agenzia Fides) – Starting from March 2017, an Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople will celebrate the Divine Liturgy for the Orthodox faithful living in Ankara once a month, and will d ...
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  14 March 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Denunciation of the Bishop of Quilmes after attempting to set fire to a church Quilmes (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Quilmes, in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, His Exc. Mgr. José Carlos Tissera, informed that on March 10, after the evening Mass, the faithful had just left ...
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  14 March 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Asian Youth Day 2017: celebrating diversity in a multicultural society Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - To encourage and accompany young people in Asia to live and promote a "culture of solidarity and encounter with the other, in the multicultural and multireligious societies of Asia", and increas ...
• 14 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The UN evacuates 25 seminarians of the Seminary of Kananga assaulted in February Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-five seminarians were evacuated by the Blue Helmets of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). The seminarians evacuated in Mbuji-Mayi were part of the group that w ...
• 14 March 2017
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Resignation of the Bishop of Jeonju, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On March 14, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Jeonju (Korea), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Vincent Ri Pyung-ho. The Holy Father a ...
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  14 March 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Even Assyrian Patriarch Mar Gewargis supports the aggregation process of political and social Christian acronyms Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Even Mar Gewargis III, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, supports the impetus promoted by political and social acronyms related to Christian communities in Iraq towards an aggregation ...
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  14 March 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "Since the end of Nigeria’s tragic civil war our citizenship has been subjected to more strain" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the end of Nigeria’s tragic civil war (1967-1970), at no other time in the history of our dear country has the issue of our common citizenship been subjected to more strain", say the Cath ...
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  9 March 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Serious loss for the Ethiopian Church: a tragic accident killed four religious sisters Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Ethiopia is mourning the deaths of four religious sisters of the Congregation of the Daughters of St. Anne who died in a car accident, a fifth is in a coma and two were critica ...
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  9 March 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Young people of all religions united against all forms of radicalism and intolerance Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - Over 3,000 young people from different religious communities gathered in Semarang, capital of Central Java province, to attend an interreligious meeting, committing themselves to "develop an in ...
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  9 March 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Presidential ballot: Mgr. Cabrera calls for respect and dialogue Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not enough to win the elections, it is important to know how to rule. This requires certain attitudes such as closeness, listening and service, regardless of our political or religious ...
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  9 March 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Continental Meeting of National Directors: analysis of the reality and the functioning of the PMS Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The thirteenth Continental Meeting of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of America is taking place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It started on March 6, w ...
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  9 March 2017
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The chapel of the Ascension, on the top of the Mount of Olives, damaged in an arson attack Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday, March 8th, the chapel of the Ascension, located at the top of the Mount of Olives, was damaged in an arson attack. According to the media of the Custody of the Holy Land, in all ...