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  14 December 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Hundreds of dead, wounded and missing, serious damage to buildings: floods in the capital of the country that is preparing to welcome the Pope Kisantu (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-four neighborhoods of Kinshasa, where some 12 million people live out of a total population of more than 17 million, have suffered serious damage due to the movements of earth caused by t ...
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  14 December 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic bishops set up new legal Offices Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On December 13th, 2022, the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land (ACOHL) organized a conference for the launching of two new offices: the Safeguarding Office & the Professional ...
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  14 December 2022
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - If we want a serious government and state, our vote must be serious Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - On April 30, 2023, general elections will be held in Paraguay to elect the President of the Republic, who is also Head of Government. The centre-left opposition, which has formed the "Concertac ...
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  14 December 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Hackers put ‘evidence’ on Indian Jesuit Stan Swamy’s computer New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - An American digital forensics firm released a report, which shows that a hacker planted multiple “incriminating documents” in the computer of activist-priest Father Stan Swamy’s computer ...
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  13 December 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: three days of "special fast" before Christmas, to ask for the gift of peace Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the third week of Advent, the Chaldean Patriarchate invites all baptized Chaldeans around the world in the days leading up to Christmas to a three-day fast for peace in Iraq ...
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  13 December 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Cardinal Parolin on Ukraine war: “We cannot imagine the future based on old patterns and military alliances” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of the war in Ukraine, "we cannot but ask ourselves whether we are doing everything, everything possible to put an end to this tragedy", said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of Stat ...
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  13 December 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Overcoming Ethnic Conflicts: Education as an Instrument of Peace Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "We firmly believe in education as an instrument of peace. Even in South Sudan, to manage the transition from arms to dialogue, it is necessary to invest in schools, which is essential fo ...
• 13 December 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Beira Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. António Manuel Bogaio Constantino, M.C.C.J., until now provincial superior of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus and chair of the ...
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  13 December 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops after protests: 'We must calm tempers to protect our weak democracy' Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian "Defensoria del Pueblo" has reported that during the weekend demonstrations took place in several cities of the country to demand the closure of Parliament, the resignation of the new ...
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  13 December 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Caritas Vietnam: “Charity is our mission” Hai Phong (Agenzia Fides) - In the parish of Phú Xuân, in Ho Chi Minh city, Father Dominic Ngô Quang Tuyên has always been committed to evangelization and charity. He sought gestures of concrete closeness and help to ...
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  12 December 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The first phase of the peace talks between the Government and the ELN, the Colombian Church "permanent companion" concludes Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian Catholic Church has accepted the invitation to participate as a "permanent companion" in the peace talks between the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guer ...
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  12 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Assaults on road construction sites in Imo State. The Bishop of Okigwe wonders who has an interest in blocking development in the area Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The bishop of Okigwe, Msgr. Solomon Amanchukwu Amatu regretted the attacks on the construction company that works on the improvement of the Owerri-Umuahia and Owerri-Okigwe roads, in the State of ...
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  12 December 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - The former seminary will welcome Christian refugees "evicted" from the "refugee camp of the Virgin Mary" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The structures of the former Chaldean seminary located in Dora, a suburb of Baghdad, were renovated in a short time to house displaced Christians from Mosul and the Nineveh Plain who had so far ...
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  12 December 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Reduce the social and educational impact of the pandemic, especially on girls in less developed countries Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world in March 2020, it is estimated that more than 111 million students have dropped out of school in developing countries. Lockdowns and restrictions are estim ...
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  12 December 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Conversion without consent": a plague for Pakistani society Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Conversion without Consent": this is the title of the report presented yesterday, December 11, by the Pakistani NGO "Voice for Justice" in collaboration with the international NGO "Jubilee Camp ...