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  20 January 2022
  ASIA/SYRIA - Two Syrian Franciscans, twin brothers, compose songs in Arabic inspired by the writings of St. Francis Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Johnny and George Jallouf are twin brothers, and they are also friars and students at the Custody of the Holy Land. They were born 25 years ago in Aleppo, and in that Syrian metropolis, martyred ...
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  20 January 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A Camillian heart always beats when there is suffering: aid continues for the population hit by Odette Bohol (Agenzia Fides) - Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Odette, which hit the country on December 16, 2021, devastated the islands and coastal communities of the eastern Philippines, flooding towns and c ...
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  20 January 2022
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - The Bishops: "St. Joseph supports us in our daily struggles, no one like him knew how to go through difficult times" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - In the context of the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the coronation of the Virgin of Altagracia (see Fides, 19/1/2022) and of the Year of Saint Joseph that has just ended, the ...
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  19 January 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - "Walking towards the lay ministry of the Catechist": week of formation Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Commission for Catechesis and Biblical Pastoral Care of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference is organizing the "Training Week for Catechists 2022" from February 7th to 11th. This new edit ...
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  19 January 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - Prayers for Christian unity from the Middle East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "We saw the star in the East, and we came to worship him". This is the title of the booklet of texts proposed to Churches and ecclesial communities around the world to celebrate liturgies and mee ...
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  19 January 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Hundreds of innocent people lose their lives every day. An unprecedented crisis in Tigray Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - The humanitarian situation in Tigray is worsening day by day. Millions of children suffer from severe malnutrition, just as many people are starving, including internally displaced persons. Ever ...
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  19 January 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Bishops: "The wild exploitation of the country's resources is destroying the environment" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The degradation and destruction of our ecosystem are frightening", denounce the Bishops of the Central African Republic in the message published at the end of their first Plenary Assembly this y ...
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  19 January 2022
  ASIA/LAOS - A new church dedicated to the first Laotian martyr catechist of the Hmong ethnic group Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - The small Catholic community in Laos rejoices at the opening of a new church dedicated to the first Laotian martyr of the Hmong ethnic group. As Fides has learned, the inauguration of the fi ...
• 19 January 2022
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Bento Barros Pereira Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 13, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Bento Barros Pereira, of the clergy of the archdiocese of D ...
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  19 January 2022
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - The needs of the Dominican people and the world at the feet of the Mother of Altagracia; national blessing by air, sea and land Higuei (Agenzia Fides) - Within the framework of the celebrations of the Jubilee Year of Altagracia, proclaimed by the Dominican Episcopal Conference - from August 15, 2021 to August 15, 2022 -, to commemorate the Centen ...
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  19 January 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Political tension is rising again; people need help and social assistance Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - Tension is rising again in Kazakhstan. About ten days after the beginning of the withdrawal of the Russian forces that had quelled the uprising on January 5, the city of Almaty is back in a state ...
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  18 January 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Solidarity is fundamental to follow Jesus Christ who stood alongside the most deprived": floods hit Marabà Marabà (Agenzia Fides) - The city of Marabá, in the state of Pará, is going through difficult times due to the flooding of the Itacaiúnas and Tocantins rivers. Local authorities and organizations (government, civil p ...
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  18 January 2022
  ASIA/SYRIA - Men and women consecrated together to bear witness to Christ in the midst of the tribulations of the Syrian people Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – More than seventy consecrated Catholics, men and women, have gathered in Damascus in recent days to discuss and reflect together on the present and the future of their vocation lived in a Syr ...
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  18 January 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Army bombs on Christian refugees Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Three dead and seven wounded, all Catholics, so much terror and tears: this is the toll of the air raid that the Burmese army, "Tatmadaw", launched in the early hours of January 17, on refugee ca ...
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  18 January 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Food and medicine for the population! Humanitarian corridors must be opened": Tigray in the grip of heinous crimes Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "Unfortunately it is all true, come and see for yourselves", a member of the local Church of Ethiopian Tigray tells Agenzia Fides, who for security reasons requests anonymity. The tragedy he ref ...