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  21 March 2016
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Cucuta invites the ELN to peace talks Cali (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Cali, His Exc. Mgr. Dario de Jesus Monsalve, announced yesterday, through social media, that in the coming hours Corporal Jair Villar Ortiz, who had been kidnapped in the city of ...
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  21 March 2016
  AMERICA/PERU - Health emergency: dengue in 14 regions Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Ministry of Health (Minsa) has declared a health emergency for 90 days: cases of dengue have been reported in 14 regions. The alert is intended to strengthen the prevention and treat ...
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  21 March 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Adorno father seriously injured in a road ambush in the northeast Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A priest of the Order of the Clerics Regular Minor (Adorno Fathers) was seriously injured in a road ambush yesterday, Sunday, March 20, in Katwiguru, 30 km from Rutshuru in North Kivu, eastern ...
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  21 March 2016
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Urosa: "The government has to protect citizens and their property" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "What happened in Tumeremo is very serious. The government has to carry out its duty to protect the safety and property of Venezuelans, said the Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savin ...
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  21 March 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Destitute, malnourished, displaced children Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The children of Burundi, who account for half of a population of ten million people, live in the most destitute Country in the world, where most of the population survives on less than $ 1 a d ...
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  21 March 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO - First round of presidential elections opens under communications blackout imposed by the government Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday, March 20, the first round of presidential elections, which took place in the Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville), opened under communications blackout imposed by the gov ...
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  21 March 2016
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians call for protection and security for Easter New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in India are asking the government for the protection of churches and safety, in view of the Easter celebrations. As reported, in a statement sent to Fides, the Global Council of In ...
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  21 March 2016
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The ordeal for Christian Fouzia Sadiq continues: recaptured Kasur (Agenzia Fides) – She has been recaptured by her tormentor who wants her as his bride: the ordeal of Fouzia Sadiqe continues, a Christian woman who lived with her parents until a Muslim kidnapped and forced her t ...
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  18 March 2016
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Denunciation of the Bishop: Teachers threatened, more than two thousand children without lessons Jinotega (Agenzia Fides) - About 2,100 school-age children cannot attend classes, in particular in the area of the river Bocay in Ayapal, due to the abandonment of teachers in more than sixty schools. Teachers have been ...
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  18 March 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Hygiene and health accessible to even the most vulnerable people Merti (Agenzia Fides) - Speaking of access to adequate sanitation and good hygiene practices may seem obvious. In Kenya the majority of the population, about 70%, have no clean and functional toilets. A fact that has ser ...
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  18 March 2016
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Cuts in health care, education and pensions in order to pay creditors San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - Puerto Rico fails to meet foreign debt payments, so the island is facing legal actions by creditors (see Fides 4,5,11/12/2015). Puerto Rico, free state associated with the United States of Amer ...
• 18 March 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Christ the King" Major Seminary in Nyeri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 27, 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Peter Maingi Mutune, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Nairobi ...
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  18 March 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops ask for clarity on the appointment of ministers Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Southern African Catholic Bishops are "profoundly disturbed" by Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas’s confirmation that he was offered the post of Finance Minister by members of the Gup ...
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  18 March 2016
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The number of working children is unstoppable Aguascalientes (Agenzia Fides) – Throughout Mexico there are more than 22,000 child laborers, many of whom do not receive any financial remuneration. In a note of the Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers (Crom) in ...
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  18 March 2016
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Bishops "we are shocked": assault in Grand Bassam Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The number of victims caused by the terrorist attack in Grand-Bassam, the resort town on the Ivory Coast, on Sunday, March 13 attacked by a commando of Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb has risen ...