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21 September 2022
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Tigray: the worst offensive in recent times, an emergency for hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Eritrean army is recalling the reservists and recruiting many young people to be sent to the front. They are trying to conquer Axum, Adigrat, Shire and enter Macallè, the situation of ...
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21 September 2022
ASIA/KAZHAKISTAN - Fr. Leopold Kropfreiter: The Pope's visit has increased interest and benevolence towards the small Catholic community
Korneevka (Agenzia Fides) - "It was very enriching to see the enthusiasm with which not only the few Catholics in Kazakhstan have prepared the visit, but also the authorities of the country, which has a 75% Muslim popula ...
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21 September 2022
AMERICA/HAITI - Poverty, desperation and lack of adequate policies fuel violence even against the Church
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Solidarity and full communion in this moment of uncertainty and great pain" to the Jesuit brothers of the Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM) for the attack on one of its homes for migrants, lo ...
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21 September 2022
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic universities commemorate 50 years of martial law and warn against post-truth
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Remembering the dark passages of national history to illuminate the present: with this intention, several schools, Catholic universities and communities in the Philippines today celebrated the 50 ...
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21 September 2022
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Orlu: "The military assault on the market of Eke Ututu risks alienating the support of the State from the population"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop further killing of innocent people and destruction of livelihoods". This is the appeal launched by Msgr. Augustine Tochukwu Ukwuoma, Bishop of Orlu, in Imo State, in southern Nigeria, to the ...
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21 September 2022
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Sport for the promotion of women and dialogue: the nation greets the football champions
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Bangladesh women's national football team has won a historic victory, obtaining the first title of the "South Asian Football Federation Women's Cup, the continental cup of South Asia, with a 3 ...
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20 September 2022
ASIA/IRAQ - Unity between Chaldeans and Assyrians: "See nothing opposed to a united Church of the East"
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "I have studied our Eastern heritage and the writings of the Fathers of the Church and I see nothing to prevent the union of the Chaldean Church and the Assyrian Church of the East under the nam ...
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20 September 2022
AFRICA/CAMEROON - A ransom has been requested for the 9 people kidnapped from the church of Saint Mary
Mamfe (Agenzia Fides) - The kidnapping of nine people in the attack on the church of Saint Mary, in the village of Nchang (see Fides, 19/9/2022) has been revealed a kidnapping for ransom. Msgr. Andrew Nkea Fuanya, Archbi ...
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20 September 2022
AMERICA/PERU - Migrants: we need complete and fair immigration policies, no to xenophobia and discrimination in society
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "We call on the authorities to implement complete and fair immigration policies, which guarantee the human rights of these people on the move, at the same time we urge Peruvian society to put aside ...
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20 September 2022
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - The Document on Human Fraternity will be studied in public schools
Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The Document on Human Fraternity signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayyib in Abu Dhabi, in 2019 will be introduced in the curriculum of public schools of all levels in ...
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19 September 2022
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Bishops on the attack on the Catholic Church: among those who attack the churches there are also members of our communities
Mamfe (Agenzia Fides) - The attack on the Catholic church of Saint Mary, in the village of Nchang (diocese of Mamfe) represents an "atrocious act". The perpetrators and instigators of this crime, in whatever country, mus ...
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19 September 2022
AMERICA/PANAMA - The Bishops announce the second phase of the dialogue, a new step in the fight against inequality, social exclusion and corruption
Panama (Agenzia Fides) - Before starting the second phase of the Single Dialogue Table, "which will be decisive in really outlining the path of transformation that our country needs", the Catholic Church team that accept ...
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19 September 2022
ASIA/BANGLADESH - The first Jesuit school in Bangladesh: "to educate the mind and heart"
Gazipur (Agenzia Fides) - St. Xavier's International School in Kuchilabari, in the district of Gazipur, near Dhaka, the first Jesuit school in Bangladesh, has just opened its doors and started teaching activities for the ...
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19 September 2022
AMERICA - Solidarity of the Youth Ministry of Latin America with the Church of Nicaragua, "the young are the builders of the civilization of love"
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Youth Ministry of Latin America and the Caribbean expresses to "the pilgrim Church of Nicaragua its feelings of closeness and solidarity in these moments when it suffers the harshest persecutio ...
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19 September 2022
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bail denied, Christian accused of blasphemy remains in prison
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Anwar Masih, a 57-year-old Christian in prison since June 2020 for blasphemy, "is an innocent man, victim of false accusations. We are surprised by the Court's decision to reject the request for ...
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