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  13 November 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - “Clothing Workers’ Uprising”: Big brands in the fashion industry should do their part Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Ten years ago, in 2014, a documentary by the British newspaper "Guardian" entitled "The shirt on your back" showed in words and images the human cost of a cotton T-shirt made in Bangladesh, retrac ...
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  13 November 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Victims of a "forgotten war", the population asks the nuns not to leave: "As long as you are here, we have hope" Karthoum (Agenzia Fides) - The missionaries of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice, FMA) in Khartoum, whose house was hit by a bomb last November 3, are doing well. “It was a nice sur ...
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  13 November 2023
  AFRICA/TOGO - President of the Bishops' Conference: “The cross is our weapon of love against terrorism” Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Togo was originally born from the efforts of missionaries from two rival countries, Wilhelmine Germany and France of the Third Republic, after the historic events in Europe and its A ...
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  13 November 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - In one of the poorest islands, around 70% of the inhabitants are Catholic Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Flores is considered one of the poorest islands in Indonesia, but it stands out for a particular wealth which is that of having the majority of its inhabitants Catholic, around 70%". Father Lui ...
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  11 November 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - “Good person of Nanjing”: Catholic nun honored as a “moral role model” by the authorities Nanjing (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic nun Zheng Yueqin from the Diocese of Nanjing, in the Chinese province of Jiangsu, received the "Good Person of Nanjing" award given to citizens by the Propaganda Department of the C ...
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  11 November 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - “Dalit Liberation Sunday”: Day of action aims to draw attention to the dignity of Dalit people as children of God New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - With "Dalit Liberation Sunday" the Catholic Church wants to highlight the situation in all Catholic communities in India on November 12, the second Sunday of the month. "Dalit", literally "the ...
• 11 November 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of Bishop of Kamina Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Léonard Kakudju Muzinga, of the clergy of Lubumbashi, until now parish priest of Saint Paul and vicar forane in Lubumbashi, as bishop of ...
• 11 November 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Basankusu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Basankusu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, presented by Bishop Joseph Mokobe Ndjoku. The Hol ...
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  10 November 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Cardinal Protase Rugambwa appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Tabora Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tabora (Tanzania) presented by His Exc. Msgr. Paul Runangaza Ruzoka, and appoint ...
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  10 November 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Cardinal Ranjith: "The situation in the country is difficult, the Church is committed to the common good" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "Given the serious political, social and economic problems that Sri Lanka has had to contend with in recent years, the situation has not improved. In order to keep popular discontent under contr ...
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  10 November 2023
  AFRICA/TOGO - Ministry of Youth warns against drug use in schools Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - The Togolese Ministry of Youth is sounding the alarm and deploring the increasing drug use among young people between 12 and 24 years old. Since the beginning of the year, the government has redou ...
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  10 November 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Fifth National Missionary Congress: From the Amazon Region to the ends of the world Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - In Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, around 1,200 people from all over Brazil have gathered to take part in the Fifth National Missionary Congress, which begins today and runs until N ...
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  10 November 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The President of the Bishops' Conference: "The so-called 'energy transition' is causing enormous environmental damage in my Country" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Wars for the mineral resources of the energy transition, exploitation of Congolese resources for a supposed global ecologism that in reality causes enormous damage to the environment and people ...
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  9 November 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Parish priest again warns Catholics about “false priests” Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Once again Ugandan Catholics are warned about the presence of "false priests" in the country's dioceses. After the previous warning issued at the beginning of September in the ecclesiastical pro ...
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  9 November 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father Neuhaus: the political strategies and chimeras that sow death in the land of Jesus by Gianni Valente Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The renewed atrocities that are spreading death and pain in the land of Jesus have deep roots. And the catastrophe is also fueled by the toxic mix of “politics based on ...