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  14 December 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Growing concern for the nuns and deacons arrested Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very worried about their fate. We have no news and we still do not understand the reason for such an act. In the meantime, the concern increases". Speaking to Fides, Mother Raffael ...
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  14 December 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians oppose anti-conversion law in Karnataka Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – To oppose the anti-conversion bill that targets Christians in the state of Karnataka, in southern India. With this aim, the faithful of the state have launched an awareness campaign and vari ...
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  14 December 2021
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The canonization of Charles de Foucauld and the mission of the "Churches of the Visitation" Constantine (Agenzia Fides) - Charles de Foucauld will be proclaimed a saint on May 15 in Rome. But in the lands where Brother Charles of Jesus gave his life, his holiness already accompanies the multiform Christian comm ...
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  14 December 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Popular initiative for the right to freedom of conscience and religion in the new Constitution Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Chilean Episcopal Conference (CECh) invites all citizens to support the popular initiative which calls for the inclusion in the new Constitution of the right to freedom of religion and of c ...
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  14 December 2021
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "Spirituality of communication": online program promoted by the Salesians of Don Bosco Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The COVID-19 pandemic has opened up new ways of connection and communication, networking and learning. Among these, the School of Formation for Social Communications, an online program laun ...
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  14 December 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Earthquake on the island of Flores: "Our structures are still intact. We hope that the five volcanoes remain inactive", writes a missionary Flores (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, around 11:20 a.m. local time (04:20 a.m. Italian time), an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 was recorded about 91 kilometers north of Maumere, in Indonesia, the second largest cit ...
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  14 December 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - COVID-19: 41 priests and 4 Bishops have died in the country since March 2020 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - From March 2020 to December 13, 2021, 413 priests and 26 Bishops were infected with COVID-19 in Venezuela: 41 priests and 4 Bishops died. This is what the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV) an ...
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  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of bishop of Bungoma Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as bishop of the diocese of Bungoma, Kenya, the Reverend Mark Kadima, of the clergy of Kakamega, until now chargé d’affaires at the apostolic nunciature in ...
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  13 December 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Red Clamor: "We do not want migrants, victims of various forms of violence, to continue to increase in the world" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Red Clamor, the Latin American ecclesial network committed to migrants, refugees and victims of trafficking, together with the Episcopal Dimension of Human Mobility of the Mexican Episcopal ...
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  13 December 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic priest attacked, Christian sacred books burned Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - An unidentified man attacked a Catholic priest with a knife in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. As Fides learned, on December 11 an unknown person entered the church of St. Joseph the ...
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  13 December 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Fr. Pierluigi Maccalli invites us to support the proclamation of the Gospel in Africa for a Christmas of peace and forgiveness Crema (Agenzia Fides) - "I renew my gratitude to all, with all my heart, for the prayers with which you accompanied me during the two long years of kidnapping, and for the affection with which you have embraced me in thi ...
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  13 December 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Between cooperation and diplomacy: Christian realities protagonists of the future of Afghanistan Trento (Agenzia Fides) – Analyze the situation in Afghanistan, imagine future scenarios and, above all, foresee the involvement and commitment of Europe in a constantly evolving framework: with these objectives, which ...
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  13 December 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishop David: the Nobel Prize to Maria Ressa, a glimmer of hope Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "For the first time in our history, a Filipino journalist was awarded a Nobel Prize for Peace. As I listened to her speech, I felt something lighting up inside me. It gave me that little glimpse ...
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  13 December 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Let's defend the Amazon from frontal attacks against indigenous peoples, the rainforest and water security Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a frontal and articulated attack underway against the indigenous peoples, the traditional communities of the Amazon, the integrity of the Amazon rainforest, the water security of all ...
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  13 December 2021
  ASIA/CHINA - Christmas lights are turned on: the Catholic community intensifies its spiritual journey and its works of charity Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, on the third Sunday of Advent, the Christmas lights, lights of hope, illuminated the different parishes of Beijing, with great emotion of the faithful, who were able to return to the ...