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  4 April 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Philippine Youth Day to be held in Mindanao Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - The Philippine Youth Day, which will bring together young people from all the dioceses of the archipelago, will be held from November 6 to 10, 2017 in Zamboanga del Sur, a city in the far sout ...
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  4 April 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian political parties insist: administrative autonomy for the Nineveh Plain Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The administrative autonomy of the Nineveh Plain continues to represent the most concrete political objective of parties and political and social organizations animated by leaders and Christian mi ...
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  4 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Crime helps to increase the number of children who are orphaned Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In the last five years the number of children orphaned as a result of the underworld has increased significantly in Caracas. Although there are no official figures of children and adolescents wh ...
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  4 April 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Mgr. Nicanor Peña: "Corruption and impunity must be fought at all levels" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Episcopal Conference of the Dominican Republic, His Exc. Mgr. Gregorio Nicanor Peña, has spoken in favor of the investigation by the Attorney General on the scandal o ...
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  4 April 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - General strike called by the opposition Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Residents in key cities joined a general strike called by the opposition to force Congolese President Joseph Kabila to implement a power sharing deal signed on December 31, 2016 to provide the ...
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  4 April 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishop of Caacupé on the situation: "The authorities that govern us are the real culprits" Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Caacupé, His Exc. Mgr. Claudio Giménez Medina, said that "many are guilty of what happened, usually those who exercise authority, but especially those who lead th ...
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  4 April 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture: "Beware of online recruitment into ISIS of our students" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has urged parents and guardians to monitor the activities of their children and wards in order to prevent them from being recruited ...
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  3 April 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Prayers and aid for victims of the Mocoa disaster, at least 250 dead Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – During the night of Saturday 1 April a huge mud slide swamped the Colombian town of Mocoa. The Mocoa and SanBoyaco rivers burst their banks sweeping away homes, cars and two bridges. At leas ...
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  3 April 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The tragedy of outcast children accused of witchcraft Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Outcasts accused of witchcraft : thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rejected by their families, accused of practicing black-magic, bringing bad luck or just because ...
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  3 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Concern for social tension: “this creates a dictatorship” warns Cardinal Urosa Savino Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – " The National Assembly is still blocked. I am deeply concerned about the state of emergency in our country regarding poor economic growth which has persisted for the past twelve months. ...
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  3 April 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Lenín Moreno wins election, Oppostition contests outcome Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Lenín Moreno, the candidate backed by Rafael Correa (Ecuador‘s president), was declared the winner in elections on Sunday 2 April, amid charges of fraud raised by the Opposition. With almost ...
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  3 April 2017
  AFRICA/ RD CONGO - Fresh attacks on Catholic church property in Kasai; Pope Francis says “pray for peace in DR Congo” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Fresh attacks on Catholic church buildings are reported from the Kasai region of the democratic republic of Congo ravaged by fighting between army troops and followers of traditional chief Kam ...
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  3 April 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Priests and sisters tell government: No surrogate maternity for India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – A new Bill intended to regulate the practice of “surrogacy” in India is “a direct attack on the sacred values of marriage, the family, the dignity of women, as well as the natural righ ...
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  31 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest kidnapped in Tamaulipas has been released Tamaulipas (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Oscar Lopez Navarro, 40, was released on Thursday, March 30", said the Bishop of the Diocese of Tampico in Tamaulipas, His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Dibildox Martinez. He informed the loca ...
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  31 March 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A lawyer of the Ahmadiyya community killed in an ambush Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A prominent lawyer and human rights defender, Malik Saleem Latif, who worked ly in Nankana Sahib in Punjab, was gunned down yesterday, March 30, while he was riding a bike driven by his son a fe ...