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  7 October 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Thirty thousand people will be evicted, Mgr. Bambaren calls for dialogue Chimbote (Agenzia Fides) - Through a letter published on social networks, the Bishop Emeritus of Chimbote, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Bambarén Gastelumendi, calls for dialogue and has spoken out against the possible evacuation ...
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  7 October 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The massacre in Mandera is part of a long sequence of blood", says the Bishop of Garissa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Once again workers from other parts of Kenya were hit, in a terrorist attack which recalls other attacks committed by the Shabaab in the area, whose victims have always been foreign workers. Th ...
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  7 October 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Supreme Court hearing for Asia Bibi Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – The Supreme Court hearing for the case of Asia Bibi, the Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy is scheduled for next October 13. The judgement at first instance was upheld by the ...
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  7 October 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Inmate accused of the New Year massacre in the church of Alexandria released from prison Alexandria (Agenzia Fides) - He was released from prison accused of having planned and carried out the attack on New Year's Eve 2011 at the Coptic church of Saints Mark and Peter in Alexandria, Egypt, which caused 23 dea ...
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  7 October 2016
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church is a community of mercy, also on the web Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) - The "e-conference" mainly discussed the global phenomenon of migration recently organized by the Broken Bay Institute, in the eponymous Australian dioceses, an institute specialized in online c ...
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  7 October 2016
  ASIA/CHINA - Death of Msgr. Anthony Xu Jiwei, prudent and zealous Pastor At 11:16 pm on Sunday, September 25, 2016, His Exc. Msgr. Anthony Xu Jiwei, Bishop of Linhai (Taichow), in Zhejiang Province (Mainland China) passed away. He was 81 years old: he had been suffering from various health pr ...
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  6 October 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - A priest committed to combating drug trafficking found dead Tucuman (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops' Conference of Argentina expresses its sorrow and dismay at the death of father Juan Heraldo Viroche, pastor of the parish of Ntra. Sra. Del Valle de La Florida, in Tucuman. We join ...
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  6 October 2016
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The cross made by a Muslim craftsman is the symbol of the Indonesian Youth Day Manado (Agenzia Fides) - The cross was the symbol of the Indonesian Youth Day (October 4-6), which ends today in Manado. As Fides learns, the cross, made of bamboo and rattan, was built by a Muslim craftsman: the work is ...
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  6 October 2016
  AMERICA/HAITI - Death and destruction, more than 14,000 people displaced because of the hurricane Matthew Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – On Tuesday, October 4, hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti with winds of more than 220 kilometers per hour, sowing desolation and death. The poorest and most vulnerable country in the ...
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  6 October 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The number of deaths due to diarrheal diseases Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The death toll of the recent outbreak of diarrheal diseases in Sudan continues to increase and medical facilities have difficulties in keeping the situation under control. The most vulnerable s ...
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  6 October 2016
  VATICAN - The path opens towards the beatification of Cardinal Celso Costantini Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of the Triveneto Episcopal Conference "expressed an opinion in favor of initiating the cause of beatification of Cardinal Celso Costantini (1876-1958), a figure of great missi ...
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  6 October 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs: Gulen took advantage of interfaith dialogue to build his "sinister plots" Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - In the persisting campaign carried out by the Turkish apparatus against the network headed by Fetullah Gulen (Islamic Turkish preacher expatriated in the United States, who was once an ally of Pr ...
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  6 October 2016
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Illegal migration is bad, yes to legal migration but the key is the development of Africa Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Africa questions the tragedy of irregular migration which sees many young people often lose their lives in the mirage of a better life in Europe. In Conakry, the capital of the Republic of Guine ...
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  6 October 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO - Guerrilla in the south of Congo resumes: 23 dead Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - 23 people were killed in the attacks committed in late September in the Republic of Congo by former members of the Ninjas Nsiloulou rebel group. This was announced by the Minister of Justice ...
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  6 October 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - The PMS national Director: "We await the Pope as a messenger of peace" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "We await the Pope as a messenger of peace, while the nation is experiencing a period of crisis in Kashmir. It would be a blessing for the country": says to Fides Fr. Faustine Lobo, National D ...