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  30 November 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - A priest and a newspaper against drugs which destroy the young Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - Father Mariano Oberlin carries out, together with the parents of children who have had serious problems with drugs, a constant struggle against this scourge that affects the city of Cordoba and ...
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  30 November 2016
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Fifty years of Gospel in Lae Lae (Agenzia Fides) - Fifty years ago the Gospel took root in Lae, the capital of Morobe province. As Fides learns, Catholics, other Christians and other religions celebrated the anniversary in a solemn ceremony in which ...
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  30 November 2016
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The latent conflict with RENAMO has so far caused 5,000 IDPs and 2,500 refugees in Malawi Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The political and military crisis has turned into a latent conflict.There are 5,000 internally displaced people in central Mozambique because of the political and military conflict between the RA ...
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  30 November 2016
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Cardinal Tong’s pastoral letter for Advent - Family and marriage: foundation of society Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us together ensure that family and Christian marriage is the starting point for charity" urges Cardinal John Tong Hon, Bishop of Hong Kong, in his Pastoral letter for Advent 2016 signed o ...
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  30 November 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian Parliament presents an interrogation on the expulsions of evangelical pastors Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The parliamentary of Armenian origin Selina Ozuzun Dogan, member of the Republican People's Party, addressed to Turkish minister of the interior Süleyman Soylu a Parliamentary interrogation on a ...
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  30 November 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops announce three days of prayer for the victims of sexual abuse Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask forgiveness for ourselves and for our clergy for having not done enough in recognising the physical, emotional and psychological pain and trauma which many victims of sexual abuse h ...
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  30 November 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The trial for the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti is moving slowly Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The anti-terrorism Military Court in Islamabad issued a forced subpoena for seven witnesses who did not present themselves in the trial for the murder of Catholic minister Shahbaz Bhatti, kill ...
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  30 November 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Still protests for the inter-oceanic canal: the police ward off protesters Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Police warded off hundreds of peasants with rubber bullets and gas, who from the south of Nicaragua were trying to reach the capital last night to attend a demonstration of the opposition with r ...
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  29 November 2016
  EUROPE/SPAIN - For 10 years a helping hand to women forced into prostitution Seville (Agenzia Fides) - "Al Alba", the reception and support center for women in Seville, is ten years old and has welcomed 2,107 women. The center works according to the objectives that led to the foundation of the Ob ...
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  29 November 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The opposition opens to the mediation of Bishops and makes important concessions to the majority Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We encourage the steps taken by CENCO (National Episcopal Conference of Congo) to open the way for true dialogue among the sons and daughters of the Country to avoid the worst", said Jean-Marc ...
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  29 November 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian jihadists accused of their involvement in the massacre of Copts killed in Libya Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian justice has accused some compatriots of being in touch with Islamic State jihadists (Daesh) and involved in the massacre of 21 Egyptian Copts killed in Libya in the winter of 2015 (se ...
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  29 November 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Millions of children orphaned due to conflict and exploitation Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Millions of children orphaned, victims of violence have continued to rise in Goma since 1994. The complaint comes from the "En Avant Les Enfants" center INUKA. According INUKA, more than 4 million ...
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  29 November 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Venezuela Caritas: no response on medicines still blocked at customs Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Still no response from the authorities to Caritas Venezuela on medicines sent from abroad to assist cases of emergencies. The director of Caritas Venezuela, Yaneth Marquez, yesterday said to Uni ...
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  29 November 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Catholic church of Santa Chiara under construction: threats by Islamic radicals Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We will burn the church if the shipyard continues the work": with this threat more than 500 Muslims protested in Bekasi, a vast suburb of the metrolpolis Jakarta, to prevent the construction of ...
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  29 November 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - No trial for the authors of the threats to the Armenian newspaper Agos Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The two militants of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organization responsible for threats and intimidation regarding the newspaper Agos, the bilingual Armenian weekly published in Istanbul, were ...