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  28 December 2021
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Bishops: "Let us undertake the serious and responsible commitment of the reconstruction our country’s needs" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In their Christmas message, the Bishops of Honduras asked the People of God and all people of good will to assume "the serious and responsible commitment to the reconstruction of which our c ...
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  28 December 2021
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Missionaries at the service of the "little flock", with great hopes for the new year Samarkand (Agenzia Fides) - "In Uzbekistan the Soviet tradition is still strong, which recognizes the New Year as the most important holiday of this period, but we have tried to convey the importance of Christmas to ever ...
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  28 December 2021
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The work of the White Fathers to stop violence against women, "offering the support of the Gospel" Bakavu (Agenzia Fides) - "In Congolese culture, violence against a woman means violence against one's mother, because it is she who gives life and bring up children. Rapes are planned as a war tactic by people who know t ...
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  23 December 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl, kidnapped and converted, reunites with her family Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Arzoo Raja, a 14-year-old Christian girl kidnapped, converted to Islam and was forcibly married to 44-year-old Muslim Azhar Ali, her kidnapper, reunites with her family. This was ruled yesterday ...
• 23 December 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Ambikapur Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 21, 2021 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Ambikapur, India, presented by Bishop Patras Minj, S.J. The Holy Father appointed Msg ...
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  23 December 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Vandalism in a Catholic church in southern India Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A 160-year-old Catholic church in the Chikkaballapur district, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka was vandalized on the morning of December 22. As confirmed to Fides by Father Joseh Ant ...
• 23 December 2021
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Appointment of the Rector of the interdiocesan major Seminary in Bata Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 8, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Sebastian Mba Nguema Mokuy, of the diocesan clergy of Ebebi ...
• 23 December 2021
  EUROPE/IRELAND - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Michael Kelly SPS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On October 21, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Michael Kelly, of St. Patrick's Society for Foreign Missio ...
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  23 December 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Planting trees around churches. Coptic Patriarch Tawadros recalls the biblical sources of the ecological initiatives launched in view of "COP 27" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Since December 1st, at the suggestion of the Coptic Patriarchate, an extraordinary tree planting program has been launched in the areas surrounding the churches and places of worship of the Coptic ...
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  23 December 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Church "suffers and shares the anxieties and pains of humanity" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "Ever since we began to see the bitter warning signs of a war, we have expressed in every way through declarations and prayers, the invitation to all actors to consider the path of dialogue ...
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  23 December 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Faced with the legalization of gambling: we need to "promote the culture of work, not squeeze the poor" Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - "Legalizing gambling is squeezing the poor", denounces the Social and Addiction Pastoral of the Archdiocese of Córdoba, in view of the imminent discussion at the provincial level, of the bill t ...
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  23 December 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - We can all contribute to bringing peace to the earth, according to the bishop of Tombura-Yambio Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "Like these Holy Parents, we also find hope: Hope in the salvation Christ’s birth brings us; hope in a vaccine for the Coronavirus; hope that gradually we can fill our churches again without fe ...
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  23 December 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Another year concludes without enactment of meaningful immigration reform Washington (Agenzia Fides) - As another year concludes without enactment of meaningful immigration reform, Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, auxiliary bishop of Washington and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bisho ...
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  23 December 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - An appeal to brotherhood and solidarity from the Christian Bishops Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – To promote brotherhood and solidarity on the occasion of Christmas: this is the joint appeal of the Catholic and Protestant Bishops in Indonesia who, in a shared Christmas message, recall that ...
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  22 December 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Israel responds to the Heads of Churches: your accusations are baseless and risk fueling violence Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The accusations made by Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches of the Holy Land regarding factors that threaten the presence of Christians in the land of Jesus "are baseless and distort the real ...