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  2 December 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Government and courts crackdown on blasphemy through social media Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - An anti-terrorism court in Peshawar has sentenced Sana Ullah, a Pakistani citizen living in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to death for committing blasphemy on social media. The c ...
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  2 December 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops' Advent Message: “Reflecting on the Gift of Life” San José (Agenzia Fides) - In its Advent message, the Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica invites "to reflect on the gift of life". "While some sections of society despise this gift and sacred right, we live in a time of ...
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  2 December 2022
  AMERICA/HAITI - Missionaries heartbroken: armed gangs also attack churches and hospitals Port Au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Every year something serious happens; this year, and the year is not over yet, there have been no earthquakes or cyclones but a unprecedented violence has hit the country, generating ins ...
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  2 December 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - Ghana, so far spared from jihadist attacks, questions the threat of terrorism in the region Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Dialogue has the potential to be a continuous stimulus for a greater understanding of the truth", said Fr. Lazarus Anondee, Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ghana (GCBC), ...
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  2 December 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Feed the hungry. Sprouts of Franciscan mercy in the freezing Russian winter Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "Bring a kilo". In Russian, “Prinesi kilogramm”. This is the name again this year of the food collection promoted in Moscow by the Conventual Franciscans to help people who live in need in th ...
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  1 December 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Middle East Council of Churches to young Christians: remain faithful to your land Bkennaya (Agenzia Fides) - The Executive Committee of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) launched an explicit and determined appeal to young Christians from the Middle East, so that they "remain faithful to their ...
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  1 December 2022
  AMERICA/CUBA - For 25 years, Christmas has returned to being a public holiday in Cuba, which is preparing to commemorate the historic visit of John Paul II Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The 25th anniversary of the recognition of Christmas as a public holiday in Cuba and the 25th anniversary of the visit to the island of the Holy Father John Paul II, are the events mentioned by t ...
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  1 December 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Knowledge and prevention, key elements to saving girls from human trafficking Gazipur (Agenzia Fides) - Jaeda Akhter, a thirty-year-old Bangladeshi, wife and mother of a child, who lives with her family in the outskirts of Dhaka, was the victim of an international gang of human traffickers and bro ...
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  1 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - Zankey Handuriya: the children's star, a small light of hope for blind children Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - After a year, Father Rafael Casamayor, together with two of his collaborators, managed to return to Gaya and spend some time with the blind children of the inclusive Catholic school in the city th ...
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  30 November 2022
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The service of Catholic schools in the education system: a contribution to the new generations Kota Kinabalu (Agenzia Fides) - "The way in which teachers continue to transmit knowledge using all means, even the mass media, and the perseverance they show in continuing to serve children in difficult times is admirab ...
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  30 November 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Redemptorists: still "no contact" with the two priests arrested in Berdyansk Berdyansk (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists) continues to have no contact with priests Fr Ivan Levytskyy and Fr Bohdan Heleta, parish priest and vicar at the Greek-Catholic churc ...
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  30 November 2022
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - More and more women in migratory flows: a conference in Ouagadougou Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - More and more women are part of the migratory flows from Africa. This is what emerges from the conference "Women, gender and migration" which is being held in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina ...
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  30 November 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - After the strike: "so many brothers have been injured, a people have been injured, it will take a long time to heal" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - After the approval of the Chamber of Deputies over the weekend, the Bolivian Senate also approved yesterday the law on population and housing census, which must now be promulgated. The census was ...
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  30 November 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Simple gestures of silent and providential charity towards the poor Robe (Agenzia Fides) - Adaba and then Dodola, Kofale, Robe, Addis Ababa, Gode, it is among these missions that Fr. Angelo Antolini, ofm cap., Apostolic Prefect of Robe, spends his journey of evangelization always close ...
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  29 November 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Formation of Catechists, organization of lay people, support for biblical animation: 2022 Evangelization Campaign Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The 2022 Evangelization Campaign, promoted by the Brazilian Episcopal Conference (CNBB) through the dioceses and particular Churches of Brazil, aims to train and update Brazilian catechists, su ...