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  14 December 2015
  ASIA/INDIA - A new priest in Orissa, in the Year of Mercy Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The new Jesuit priest who will be ordained on December 30 comes from the district of Kandhamal, in Orissa, which was the scene of anti-Christian violence in 2008. Narendra Singh, 35, will be ...
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  14 December 2015
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai visits Egypt; the election of the President is taking longer than expected Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Maronite Patriarch Boutros Bechara Rai carried out a four-day visit to Egypt, which ended yesterday, Sunday, December 13, and was characterized by a busy schedule, not only from a pastoral point ...
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  14 December 2015
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Agahi", the weekly to give "the good news of mercy" in Urdu Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The good news of God's mercy in Urdu is a tool to give all Pakistani citizens, of all religions": this is what Fr. Arthur Charles, a Capuchin friar and editor of the magazine says to Agenzia Fi ...
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  14 December 2015
  ASIA/SYRIA - At least 17 churches and Christian shrines destroyed by jihadist groups Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - At least 17 churches and Christian shrines have been destroyed, desecrated or occupied by jihadist groups in the Syrian conflict. The list was provided by sources linked to local Christian comm ...
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  11 December 2015
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The Children's Village Singers involved in the fight against child labor Quito (Agenzia Fides) - 'Por tí vamos a vencer' is the title of the musical play just presented by the Economic and Social Inclusion Ministry (MIES) and interpreted by the 'Niños Cantores del Pueblo' choir. The more th ...
• 11 December 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Assault against the barracks in the capital, the government said "attacks failed" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Heavy fighting took place last night and this morning in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi, where rebels who oppose the third term of President Pierre Nkurunziza, attacked all the barracks in the ...
• 11 December 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Nuncio in Kinshasa urges Central African refugees in Congo to welcome Pope Francis' message of peace Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in Kinshasa, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Mariano Montemayor, called on Central African refugees welcomed in Zongo, on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Cen ...
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  11 December 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Year of Mercy opens in prison num. 39 Moron (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Year of Mercy also opened in prison num. 39 in the city of Ituzaingó, that belongs to the great Buenos Aires. His Exc. Mgr. Luis Guillermo Eichhorn of the Diocese of Moron, on Wednesday, ...
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  11 December 2015
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Mgr. Gonzalez Nieves to the United Nations: "I come for my people who are suffering" San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - San Juan's Archbishop, His Exc. Mgr. Roberto González Nieves, O.F.M. called on Puerto Rico's government and debt holders to negotiate a comprehensive solution to the island's debt crisis in a ...
• 11 December 2015
  ASIA/CHINA - Even in China many "Doors of Mercy" are open Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Even the Catholic community in China is intensely living the extraordinary opening of the Holy Year of Mercy, in communion with the Universal Church and Pope Francis. In light of the Bull of th ...
• 11 December 2015
  VATICAN - Fr. Fabrizio Meroni - PIME, new Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionary Union Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 December Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples appointed Father Fabrizio Meroni, of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIM ...
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  11 December 2015
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Church chooses new technologies: a management information system of the faithful Bandung (Agenzia Fides) - New technologies can be a useful tool at the disposal of the Church. In this spirit, a Management Information System of the faithful was launched in the Diocese of Bandung, a city in the western ...
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  11 December 2015
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Jubilee of Mercy focuses on youth and martyrs Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Year of Mercy in Korea will be lived in the name of the young and martyrs. The Korean Church is preparing, in fact, a number of initiatives which have young people as protagonists. As re ...
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  11 December 2015
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Land confiscated and ancient olive trees uprooted in the Cremisan Valley Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) – Five months have gone by since the land in the area of Beir Onah, next to the monastery in Cremisan, was confiscated by the State of Israel. In August, bulldozers uprooted 50 olive trees whi ...
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  10 December 2015
  ASIA/THAILAND - The parishioners of San Marco every Sunday among the abandoned, the poor, the elderly Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, in view of Christmas, Father Adriano Pelosin, PIME missionary engaged for many years in Thailand, shares with Agenzia Fides some of the experiences of his adopted Country. In his ...