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  30 September 2016
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - CIMI denounces violence against the Indigenous in Minas Gerais, a missionary threatened Minas Gerais (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) denounces and condemns the attack of 23 September by farmers (fazendeiros) and gunmen against Xakriabá indigenous communities of Vargem Grande, in ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/TURKEY - Murderers of the three Christians in Malatya convicted, but no prison for now Malatya (Agenzia Fides) - Nine years after the killing of three Christians slaughtered in the southeastern Turkish city of Malatya, the Criminal Court sentenced five Turkish, accused of being the perpetrators of the trip ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Inclusion and quality in education policy: the proposals of religious minorities New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Religious minorities in India, in particular Christians and Muslims, invite the federal government not to "saffronize education", by imposing a new education policy with particular focus on cu ...
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  30 September 2016
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Eight Jesuits, new priests, at work in the sign of mercy Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Eight new Vietnamese priests of the Society of Jesus have been ordained and have already been engaged in pastoral work in the country. The ordination celebration, held on August 25 in H ...
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  30 September 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Chemical weapons used in Darfur? "Investigations need to be carried out", says an expert to Fides Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Between 200 and 250 people, mostly children, were killed in the course of several chemical attacks launched by the Sudanese armed forces in Sudan. This was denounced in a report by Amnesty Inte ...
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  30 September 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Rector of the Major Seminary of Tansi released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Emmanuel Dim, Rector of the Major Seminary of Tansi, who had been kidnapped on September 26 (see Fides 29/09/2016) has been released. This was announced by the Chancellor of the Diocese of Awk ...
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  29 September 2016
  AMERICA/CHILE - Araucania Forum: solutions must directly come from the people of the region Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The forum "Todos somos Araucanía", an event organized by Sofofa (Sociedad de Fomento Fabril), an organization representing more than 4,000 companies, 38 associations and 23 Chilean trade union ...
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  29 September 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Children consume marijuana already at seven years of age Medellin (Agenzia Fides) - The consumption of drugs and drug dependancy are a fairly common phenomenon among the children of Medellin. 7-year-olds mainly consume marijuana in the department of Antioquia. What further agg ...
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  29 September 2016
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Let's take care of our mother tongue": meeting of the indigenous pastoral Santa Fe (Agenzia Fides) - Teachers of ten indigenous peoples and also non-indigenous teachers took part in the XV Meeting of Indigenous Educators, which took place on 23, 24 and 25 September in the city of Avellaneda, S ...
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  29 September 2016
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: Palestinian refugees have the "natural right" to return to their homeland Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) - The international recognition of the Palestinian State is an act which cannot be delayed if one really wants to favor the re-establishment of peace in the Middle East. And one must also support ...
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  29 September 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Rector of the Major Seminary of Tansi kidnapped Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Rector of Tansi Major Seminary, Fr. Emmanuel Dim has been kidnapped. This was reported by Fr. Hyginus Aghaulor, Director of Communication of the Diocese of Nnewi, in Anambra State in southeast ...
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  29 September 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists disrupt meetings among Christians Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A meeting on the Gospel was interrupted with violence and a stand with Bibles and Christian material were destroyed: is the latest violence perpetrated by Hindu extremists against Christians i ...
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  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Augustine" Major Seminary of Jos Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 8, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Mark Maigida Nzukwein, of the clergy of the Diocese of Jalingo as R ...
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  29 September 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two parables in modern version represented on stage to announce the Gospel of mercy Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - To represent two parables, revisited and updated in a new version, to announce the Gospel of mercy: is the initiative organized, among the events of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, by the Catechetica ...
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  29 September 2016
  EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN - President Ilham Aliyev: Islamophobia and xenophobia are the "new fascism" that threatens Europe Baku (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the visit of Pope Francis in Georgia and Azerbaijan (30 September-2 October) Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev denounced the risk of a resurgence of fascism in the heart of the Old Co ...