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  15 November 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Justice and Peace": two months after the constitutional referendum, still no shared proposal for a new itinerary Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In the referendum of September 4, Chileans expressed a large majority (more than 60%) of their negative opinion on the draft new Constitution. The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, implemented ...
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  14 November 2022
  ASIA/KIRGHIZSTAN - The project for the construction of the first Catholic cathedral has been presented Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - Kyrgyzstan will soon have its first Catholic cathedral. The religious building will rise in the heart of the capital Bishkek, and its first stone has already been blessed by Pope Francis. Constr ...
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  14 November 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - Giving back childhood to street children and offering them a better future Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Reception and rehabilitation services, education, are some of the interventions that the Salesian missionaries have launched in favor of street children in the areas where they are involved. 'Reco ...
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  14 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops warn of 'miracle healers' and 'false prophets' Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Beware of false prophets. Some of these use the pulpit and television to deceive the people of God", warned Msgr. David Ajang, Bishop of Lafia, in his homily on Sunday November 13, warning the fa ...
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  14 November 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Ten couples choose the sacrament of marriage: a new path in the Catholic community Thakurgaon (Agenzia Fides) - They have asked to receive the sacrament of marriage now, after beginning their life as a couple in previous years. This is the choice made by ten couples accompanied, spiritually and pastora ...
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  14 November 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops "to governors and governed": wisdom and dialogue in the face of growing hatred and resentment Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "We Bishops of Bolivia, gathered for the 111th Assembly, make an appeal to the entire Bolivian people, to the governors and the governed, in the face of everything we are experiencing, in the ...
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  12 November 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Forced marriages increase the risk of violence and suicide for women Wau (Agenzia Fides) - A young 19-year-old mother is serving a three-month prison sentence in the Wau juvenile detention center, in the western Bahr el Ghazal state of South Sudan, for refusing to marry a man chosen by he ...
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  12 November 2022
  VATICAN - "Euntes in mundum universum": an international conference on the 400 years of Propaganda Fide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Four centuries of mission, four centuries of proclamation of the Gospel. This is the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, today the Dicastery for Evangelization. A long and intense history, whi ...
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  12 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Minna on upcoming elections: “People want change in Nigeria” Minna (Agenzia Fides) - "Even if the youths and fringe groups do not succeed in putting in power the political leaders of their choices, they have started something – a new movement that will bring about a ‘New’ Ni ...
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  11 November 2022
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - An "informal" school on the outskirts of Luanda in one of the parish chapels Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Education in Angola is of poor quality, it lacks in infrastructure, school materials and trained teachers. While it is compulsory and free for children aged four, for children between the ages of ...
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  11 November 2022
  AFRICA/CONGO - Caritas: More than 2,600 refugees from the DRC are in a precarious situation; the Bishops of the DRC call for a march for peace on December 4 Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) – More than 2,600 refugees in central-eastern Congo-Brazzaville live in precarious conditions. This was stated by Caritas Congo according to which the conditions of the children in particula ...
• 11 November 2022
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of the Bishop of Ambanja, Donatien Francis Randriamalala Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Fr. Donatien Francis Randriamalala, M.S., currently parish priest of Notre Dame de la Salette and Vicar General of the Diocese of Morondava, as Bishop ...
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  11 November 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "let's not stand idly by and look at the problems that concern everyone" Cuautitlan Izcalli (Agenzia Fides) - The "concern for the reality we are experiencing" and, at the same time, "the desire to continue collaborating in the construction of a more just and fraternal country, united and in ...
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  11 November 2022
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Bishop on upcoming election: "Choose on the basis of your conscience" Johor (Agenzia Fides) - "When we elect corrupt politicians we become accomplices. We become accomplices of evil when we pretend to be blind, deaf or dumb in the face of evil. We therefore ask all young people in particul ...
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  10 November 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - Farewell Antioch. Father Bertogli leaves his “Domus Ecclesiae” after 35 years of mission by Gianni Valente Antakya (Agenzia Fides) - For the 86-year-old Italian Capuchin Father Domenico Bertogli, who comes from Modena, the time has come to say goodbye. At the beginning of November he left his parish of St. ...