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  9 March 2017
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - 80,000 people affected by the worst drought in 40 years Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - About one million people urgently need food aid and tens of thousands need urgent life-saving aid due to the drought that is severely hitting Sri Lanka. The alarm emerges from a statement of the ...
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  9 March 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - English-speaking areas without the Internet for 50 days to try to block the protest for bilingualism Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - English-speaking regions of Cameroon (in the north-west and south-west of the country), have now been without the internet for 50 days which is causing serious inconvenience to the local popula ...
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  9 March 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch at the forum on post-conflict: let us copy the distinction between politics and religion from the West Sulaymaniyah (Agenzia Fides) - When Mosul will be completely taken away from the jihadists of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, and the Iraqi people will be faced with the difficult task to reconstruct a torn political, ...
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  8 March 2017
  INDONESIA - Saudi king meets with religious leaders and praises tolerance and coexistence Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We shared aspirations and hopes with the Saudi king. This meeting is symbolic and very important": said to Fides Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo, after the Interreligious meeting organized by the G ...
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  8 March 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Mgr. Bastres Florence’s message: "Woman, Star of Chile" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "A society which recognizes itself as modern and democratic must recognize the right of all women in order to allow them to contribute to the public and political life of our country, and to cr ...
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  8 March 2017
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Women of Mission: Catholic Mission for Women's Day Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) - Among the many initiatives under way for International Women's Day, Catholic Mission in Brisbane has organized an event for its supporters during which stories of missionary women and their ext ...
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  8 March 2017
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Trump: no "selective reception" reserved for Christian refugees Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The executive order on immigration signed by US President Donald Trump in late January, and intended to suspend the entry into the United States of refugees from seven countries with a Muslim ...
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  8 March 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - The consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: a blessing for the Ghanaian nation Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "I bring the Pope’s greetings, his Apostolic Blessing and his fervent wish that your nation continues to move forward in peace and stability, on a path of development that may become a model of ...
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  8 March 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - CELAM and the Executive Secretaries of the Bishops' Conferences gathered in Bogota Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - From 7 to 9 March the annual meeting of CELAM (Latin American Episcopal Council) with the secretaries-general of the 22 countries of Latin America and the Episcopal Conferences Caribbean takes pl ...
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  8 March 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The House approves the death penalty: the Church "in mourning" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Philippine Catholic Church is "in mourning" after the House of Representatives approved the re-imposition of capital punishment in the nation. On March 7, 217 to 54 with one abstention, lawm ...
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  7 March 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: corruption is a "social leprosy" Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - "The state of corruption, ethical degradation, political feudalism that the country is suffering from, the prioritization of personal and sectarian interests is hindering the enhancement of the ...
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  7 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A new project to offer more reception to street children Tuxtepec (Agenzia Fides) - The Casa Hogar Chiria, founded over 20 years ago in the territory of San Bartolo, assists street children and with family issues. In order to welcome these children, this year’s project is ba ...
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  7 March 2017
  AMERICA/PANAMA - "The poor pay a high price because of corruption", denounces Mgr. Ulloa during the national holiday of the Nazarene Atalaya (Agenzia Fides) - The Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel in Atalaya, 250 km from the city of Panama, was the traditional appointment destination for devotees of Jesus of Nazareth, which every year on March 5 g ...
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  7 March 2017
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The drama of "bacha-bazi", boys kidnapped and sold, used as spies Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - For many years activists for human rights in Afghanistan have been putting pressure on government authorities to take action to prohibit and severely punish those responsible for the cruel practic ...
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  7 March 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - From the Philippines a gift of faith for Catholic couples in Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Raman and Teresita Santiago, a Christian married couple from the Philippines, members of the Catholic movement "Couples For Christ", have arrived in Orissa in recent days for a meeting with ...