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14 January 2022
AFRICA - Being true witnesses of the Gospel and of God's grace: Jubilee celebration for the 75th anniversary of the Redemptorists of West Africa
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "This Jubilee celebration is also an invitation for us to be true witnesses of the Gospel and of God's grace, following our vocation and living the charism of the Congregation", writes Fathe ...
14 January 2022
ASIA/CHINA - Towards Lepers' Day: the Catholic community in action, like all year round
Nanjing (Agenzia Fides) - Like every year, members of the Nanjing Ark Charity Foundation, the charitable foundation of the Catholic community in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province - one of the many Catholic charities s ...
14 January 2022
ASIA/SRI LANKA - One thousand days after the Easter massacre: day of commemoration
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Sri Lanka lives today, January 14, a special day of commemoration, a thousand days after the 2019 Easter Massacre, when suicide bombers hit churches and hotels. As Agenzia Fides re ...
13 January 2022
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Accidental fire destroys refugee camp near the Cathedral of Alindao
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - About 1,500 houses destroyed by flames and extensive material damage to other structures, about twenty people were hospitalized. This is the toll of the violent fire which devastated the refugee ...
13 January 2022
AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Tawadros: for Copts there is no longer any "ban" on visiting Jerusalem
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The Coptic Christians of Egypt who go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem do not contravene any provision of the ecclesiastical authority. The prescriptions laid down in the past by the leaders of the Co ...
13 January 2022
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishop of Matagalpa: Human dignity and freedom are prerequisites for a new beginning
Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "The principle of human dignity is fundamental to the reconstruction of a country. Respect for the person and his or her dignity must be the axes around which all efforts must revolve so that ...
13 January 2022
AFRICA/MOROCCO - Students help African migrants: "We get to know and love them"
Fès (Agenzia Fides) - "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was a foreigner, and you welcomed me". This quote from the Gospel of Matthew inspired a group of ...
13 January 2022
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - From war lockdown to health lockdown
Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Kazakhstan, after the popular uprising that began on January 5, has "normalized", but "a veil of deep sadness" remains on the streets of Almaty. This is what Father Guido Trezzan ...
13 January 2022
AMERICA/HAITI - Twelve years after the earthquake: Redemptorists inaugurate the parish church of St. Gerard after being rebuilt
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday, January 9 will forever be remembered in the hearts of parishioners and in the annals of the Redemptorist Congregation as the date of the inauguration of the new parish church of S ...
13 January 2022
EUROPE/SPAIN - Missionary Childhood Day: The Church has been a pioneer in the field of child protection for many years
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) – This coming Sunday, January 16, Spanish children have an appointment with Missionary Childhood Day - "Children's Sunday". The focus is on supporting the missionaries in their work with children ...
12 January 2022
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops publish new edition on the office of catechist: "Making the lay ministry understandable"
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB) has presented the second edition of the text of Studies No. 95 on the "Ministry of the Catechist". This new edition is intended to be useful after the f ...
12 January 2022
ASIA/ISRAEL - Christian population: numerical growth with percentage decrease compared to other religions
Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian population of Israel continues the slight numerical growth that has characterized it since the founding of the Jewish state, but also continues its progressive decline in percenta ...
12 January 2022
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Jihadists pressured by the military; Christian and Muslim leaders: "no to the exploitation of religion"
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - About 30 people, mostly women and children, have managed to escape in recent days from the hands of Islamist militias that they had captured in the Cabo Delgado region in the far north of Mozambi ...
12 January 2022
AFRICA/ANGOLA - “There's not much here other than knowing that God's love gives meaning to everything”
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "The meaning of life is to love others at all ages and in every place. We Christians proclaim and testify first of all that someone else gives our life meaning because he loves us: he loves every ...
12 January 2022
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Indigenous pastoral worker, human rights and environmental activist murdered
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "We strongly condemn the murder of the representative of the Lenca people, Pablo Isabel Hernández, on Sunday, January 9th, in western Honduras. Human rights activist and environmentalist, p ...
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