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  21 January 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The community of Bataan rejects the plan to activate the nuclear power plant: life is more important than cheap electricity Balangas (Agenzia Fides) - Due to the energy crisis and the high cost of electricity, the solution is not to resort to nuclear energy, but to develop renewable energies: this is the position of a large community forum in ...
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  20 January 2023
  ASIA/NEPAL - Father Miller, missionary with a "passion for evangelization" by Paolo Affatato Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - When a missionary spends more than 60 years of his life in a country far from his homeland, it often happens that he chooses to die there, in his "adopted homeland" and also ...
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  20 January 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese New Year. Christian hope embraces the expectations and sorrows of the "great army of ChunYun" by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - After three years of closures and impediments due to the pandemic, the great "army of ChunYun" has finally returned, the endless crowds of people who travel through China to spend ...
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  20 January 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Any attack against life is also an attack against the democratic rule of law, dignity and social welfare Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "We must remember that any attack on life is also an attack on the democratic rule of law and constitutes an attack on dignity and social well-being". This is underlined by the Brazilian bishop ...
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  20 January 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A catechist kidnapped instead of a priest already kidnapped last year Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A catechist was kidnapped by bandits who probably intended to kidnap the priest of the Catholic church of Santa Monica, Ikulu-Pari, in Chawai Chiefdom of the local government of Kauru, Kaduna stat ...
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  19 January 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Beware of land grabbing: Central Africans are in danger of becoming foreigners in their own country", say the bishops Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Shortage of fuel, increase in the prices of basic necessities, insecurity in which vast areas of the country live. These are the main challenges facing the Central African Republic, according to ...
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  19 January 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Controversial trials over the effects of the truce in Tigray, while the conflict in Oromia reopens Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "We pray that the peace agreement is successful. It is not over yet, many of our faithful and our parishes are still besieged by foreign forces", writes Tesfaselassie Medhin, Bishop of the Catho ...
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  19 January 2023
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - School reform: Bishops express concern La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB) expresses concern about the content of the school reform and considers that it "seriously undermines the objectives, results and efforts of the last two sch ...
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  19 January 2023
  ASIATHAILAND - New training center for catechists of the Hmong ethnic group Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - A new training center dedicated to Hmong catechists, called the "International Hmong Center", intended to serve the Catholic population of the Hmong ethnic group, was inaugurated in Chiang Ma ...
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  18 January 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: intimacy with Jesus, the Good Shepherd, is the "soul" of every apostolic work Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Jesus, the Good Shepherd, "does not remain contemplating the sheep pen, nor does he threaten them so they won’t leave". If one of the sheep of his flock goes away and gets lost, he "does not aban ...
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  18 January 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The army destroys a Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Mandalay; the Chapel of Adoration remains standing Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese army set fire to the ancient Church of the Assumption, built in 1894 in Chan Thar, a village inhabited by Catholics in the region of Sagaing, in the territory of the Archdiocese of ...
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  18 January 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "A new chapter of hope and inspiration" for God's people in the country Torit (Agenzia Fides) - The next ecumenical visit scheduled for early February in South Sudan, which will see Pope Francis accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the moderator of the Church of Sco ...
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  18 January 2023
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Referendum on the reform of justice, the Catholic Church also adheres La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - From January 25, Bolivian citizens will be able to participate in the collection of signatures for a referendum on judicial reform. The initiative of a group of independent jurists is joined by t ...
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  18 January 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Michael Olubunimi Olofinlade, the Nigerian priest kidnapped on Saturday, January 14, has been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Michael Olubunimi Olofinlade, a Nigerian priest kidnapped on Saturday January 14 by unidentified gunmen in the state of Ekiti, in southwestern Nigeria, is free (see Fides, 16/1/2023). Fath ...
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  18 January 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Love for the environment and witness in the midst of earthquakes: the life of Camillian seminarians with the parishioners of Maumere Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - In recent hours, the American Institute of Geophysics USGS reported a violent tremor of magnitude 7.0 that hit the eastern part of the archipelago, near the Moluccas Islands. No damage was repor ...