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  4 January 2024
  EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - A Samizdat for the Council: Story of Sister Eliška and her “secret printing press” by Chiara Dommarco Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "He who does not know how to speak with love to his neighbor shows that he has not learned to speak to God in prayer". With these words, Sister Eliška Pretschnerová describes ...
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  3 January 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Peace and reconciliation invoked for the 1,400th time Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - It was March 7, 1995, when Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (1922 - 2009), then Archbishop of Seoul and Apostolic Administrator of Pyongyang, launched the initiative to celebrate a special "Mass for ...
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  3 January 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Will the agreement between Ethiopia and Somaliland cause a geopolitical earthquake? Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Will there be a geopolitical earthquake in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea? This is what one wonders after the historic agreement signed on January 1st between Ethiopian Prime Minister, A ...
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  3 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Marriage “without dowry” and birth support: Chinese Catholic communities face new challenges for families Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - In the People's Republic of China, complex social processes linked to modernity call into question the reality of everyday family life and leading to worrying consequences such as low birth ...
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  3 January 2024
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Kenyan missionary found dead; Warao indigenous people call for "serious and credible" investigation Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - A "serious and credible" investigation into the death of the missionary "with a big smile". This is what the Warao community from the Delta Amacuro state in eastern Venezuela is demanding in ord ...
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  2 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Mission in the villages of the Mentawai Islands: traveling by canoe and on foot along dangerous paths Padang (Agenzia Fides) - "Love your neighbor as yourself, together we will enjoy what he has given us" sing the young people of the indigenous communities in the remote areas of the Mentawai Islands, west of Sumatra, one ...
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  2 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The first Apostolic Prefecture entrusted to the Chinese clergy celebrates its 100th anniversary Puqi (Agenzia Fides) - A hundred years ago, thanks to the persistent efforts of Archbishop Celso Costantini, the first Apostolic Delegate to China, the Apostolic Prefecture of Puqi in Hubei Province was founded with the ...
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  2 January 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Tshisekedi re-elected President but the opposition denounces irregularities in the election Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The outgoing President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Félix Tshisekedi, was re-elected, with 73.34% of the vote. This emerges from the official results announced by the Independent Electo ...
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  2 January 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Sokoto: "The Christmas massacres aim to destabilize Nigeria" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - " Can we continue to believe that there is no long-term plan to take over the reins of power of the Nigerian state?" asks Matthew Hassan-Kukah, bishop of Sokoto in the aftermath of the massacres t ...
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  30 December 2023
  "You do not go to Heaven alone." The life of self-sacrifice of witnesses to the faith, for the salvation of all by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the year that is about to end, at least twenty Catholic missionaries, and pastoral care workers were killed. And also at the end of this year, like every year, Agenzia Fid ...
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  30 December 2023
  VATICAN - Missionaries and pastoral care workers killed in 2023 Dossier edited by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, 20 missionaries were killed in the world in 2023: 1 Bishop, 8 priests, 2 non-religious men, 1 semi ...
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  29 December 2023
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Star Singers Campaign 2024: "Together for our Earth - in the Amazon and worldwide" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - "Together for our Earth - in the Amazon and worldwide" is the motto of the 66th Star Singers campaign of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood in Germany (Kindermissionswerk/"Die Sternsing ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - From Beijing to Inner Mongolia, a Christmas of faith and charity for Chinese Catholics Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A Christmas of faith and charity was experienced by Catholic communities in all the provinces of the People's Republic of China. During vigils and solemn masses, prayers were said for peace and ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Over twenty thousand participants from different ethnic groups, languages and rites at the Christmas Eve Mass Awali (Agenzia Fides) - "We come to Bethlehem grotto to present our needs and praises. We look for blessing and grace. The new born child will carry us to a radiant life and a new participation in the divine life." This ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - The legacy of mother Eliswa, a woman who worked for the emancipation and education of women in India by Sister Roobini Chinnappan Varapuzha (Agenzia Fides) - She was a woman who worked for other women in India, for social emancipation and for the elevation of their status and culture. At the head of a religious cong ...