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  17 January 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Eastern DRC: not only jihadists but a complex network of local and foreign interests Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are amazed to see the arrival of the EACRF military, considered as a foreign army on Congolese soil against the will of the citizens, and embarrassed by the paradoxical support of the Ugand ...
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  17 January 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Over 50 dead in riots: “We must not lose hope” Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Following the continued popular protests, the Peruvian Government has declared a state of emergency for 30 days from January 15th in the departments of Cusco, Lima and Puno, in the province of Call ...
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  17 January 2023
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Bishops of North Africa meet in Marseille: "Mediterranean as a place of dialogue" Marseille (Agenzia Fides) - "At the heart of our meeting was the approach of looking at our reality through the lens of our belonging to the Mediterranean region, where three continents meet", declared the members of the ...
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  17 January 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New Evangelization: Mission stations in shopping malls and slums by Paolo Affatato Kalookan (Agenzia Fides) - In the diocese of Kalookan there are 32 parishes and 17 municipal missions. The diocese includes the southern part of the city of Caloocan and the cities of Malabon and Navot ...
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  16 January 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest burned alive. "They came to kill", says the auxiliary bishop of Minna to Fides Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "They have come to kill. If their purpose was robbery or kidnapping, they would have acted differently", says Msgr. Luka Sylvester Gopep, Auxiliary Bishop of Minna, the diocese where the robbery i ...
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  16 January 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - General Assembly of the Scalabrini Missionary Sisters: In times of global crisis, the phenomenon of migration remains a priority Caxias do Sul (Agenzia Fides) - Three months after the canonization of their founder, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, the Scalabrini Missionary Sisters begin their tenth General Assembly, which opened today, January 16, an ...
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  16 January 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Islamist attack on church in Kasindi: "Act of revenge for losses suffered" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - During the attack yesterday, Sunday 15 January, on the Pentecostal church Eglise du Christ au Congo (ECC) in Kasindi, in the Beni region (North Kivu province, east of the Democratic Republic of ...
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  16 January 2023
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Let's not wait for things to improve by themselves, but we trust in God's help, taking risks together to build a better country" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Our society is paralyzed by inertia and resignation, by the lack of hope, by the accumulated experience of multiple shortcomings, repeated contradictions, unpunished violations of fundamental r ...
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  16 January 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Tangshan Catholic Community marks 2023 as the Year of Spirituality Tangshan (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Tangshan, in the Chinese province of Hebei, is celebrating 2023 as the "Year of Spirituality". In the pastoral planning of the community, after the Year of the Fami ...
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  14 January 2023
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II: homosexuality contradicts God's plan and the Bible Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Homosexual behavior does not conform to the Bible and to the creative will of God, who «created Adam and Eve». This was reiterated by Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II, in an Egyptian televi ...
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  14 January 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appeal for ceasefire: "Peace is the greatest gift" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We urgently ask the parties for a ceasefire. We ask that they lay down their arms and seek a peaceful solution. We see many people suffering and it is necessary to create humanitarian corridors ...
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  13 January 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - Clara's "tailor-made" dress Turin (Agenzia Fides) - Clara Pautasso is now 40 years old, lives in Turin and works as a nurse at Molinette hospital. At 18, with her high school leaving exam approaching, she felt called upon to make a choice. "I have ...
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  13 January 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - 2019 Easter attacks, the Supreme Court condemns former President Sirisena Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has ruled that former President of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena, and four other senior officials were negligent because they did not take the necessary preventi ...
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  13 January 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The serious insecurity in the region has contributed to aggravating the consequences of the fire at the Kateri Seminary Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The insecurity in which large parts of Nigeria live can have unexpected consequences. According to the rector of the minor seminary of Kateri, in the state of Kaduna (northwestern Nigeria), Father ...
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  12 January 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: the unity of the Churches is not a "gesture of courtesy", but a secret of the Christian presence in the Middle East Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "The Eastern Churches need a breath of fresh air", is how the Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, entitled his message for the forthcoming Week of Prayer for Chr ...