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  18 January 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The army destroys a Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Mandalay; the Chapel of Adoration remains standing Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese army set fire to the ancient Church of the Assumption, built in 1894 in Chan Thar, a village inhabited by Catholics in the region of Sagaing, in the territory of the Archdiocese of ...
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  18 January 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "A new chapter of hope and inspiration" for God's people in the country Torit (Agenzia Fides) - The next ecumenical visit scheduled for early February in South Sudan, which will see Pope Francis accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the moderator of the Church of Sco ...
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  18 January 2023
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Referendum on the reform of justice, the Catholic Church also adheres La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - From January 25, Bolivian citizens will be able to participate in the collection of signatures for a referendum on judicial reform. The initiative of a group of independent jurists is joined by t ...
• 18 January 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Michael Olubunimi Olofinlade, the Nigerian priest kidnapped on Saturday, January 14, has been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Michael Olubunimi Olofinlade, a Nigerian priest kidnapped on Saturday January 14 by unidentified gunmen in the state of Ekiti, in southwestern Nigeria, is free (see Fides, 16/1/2023). Fath ...
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  18 January 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Love for the environment and witness in the midst of earthquakes: the life of Camillian seminarians with the parishioners of Maumere Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - In recent hours, the American Institute of Geophysics USGS reported a violent tremor of magnitude 7.0 that hit the eastern part of the archipelago, near the Moluccas Islands. No damage was repor ...
• 17 January 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Eastern DRC: not only jihadists but a complex network of local and foreign interests Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are amazed to see the arrival of the EACRF military, considered as a foreign army on Congolese soil against the will of the citizens, and embarrassed by the paradoxical support of the Ugand ...
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  17 January 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Over 50 dead in riots: “We must not lose hope” Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Following the continued popular protests, the Peruvian Government has declared a state of emergency for 30 days from January 15th in the departments of Cusco, Lima and Puno, in the province of Call ...
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  17 January 2023
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Bishops of North Africa meet in Marseille: "Mediterranean as a place of dialogue" Marseille (Agenzia Fides) - "At the heart of our meeting was the approach of looking at our reality through the lens of our belonging to the Mediterranean region, where three continents meet", declared the members of the ...
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  17 January 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New Evangelization: Mission stations in shopping malls and slums by Paolo Affatato Kalookan (Agenzia Fides) - In the diocese of Kalookan there are 32 parishes and 17 municipal missions. The diocese includes the southern part of the city of Caloocan and the cities of Malabon and Navot ...
• 16 January 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest burned alive. "They came to kill", says the auxiliary bishop of Minna to Fides Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "They have come to kill. If their purpose was robbery or kidnapping, they would have acted differently", says Msgr. Luka Sylvester Gopep, Auxiliary Bishop of Minna, the diocese where the robbery i ...
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  16 January 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - General Assembly of the Scalabrini Missionary Sisters: In times of global crisis, the phenomenon of migration remains a priority Caxias do Sul (Agenzia Fides) - Three months after the canonization of their founder, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, the Scalabrini Missionary Sisters begin their tenth General Assembly, which opened today, January 16, an ...
• 16 January 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Islamist attack on church in Kasindi: "Act of revenge for losses suffered" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - During the attack yesterday, Sunday 15 January, on the Pentecostal church Eglise du Christ au Congo (ECC) in Kasindi, in the Beni region (North Kivu province, east of the Democratic Republic of ...
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  16 January 2023
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Let's not wait for things to improve by themselves, but we trust in God's help, taking risks together to build a better country" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Our society is paralyzed by inertia and resignation, by the lack of hope, by the accumulated experience of multiple shortcomings, repeated contradictions, unpunished violations of fundamental r ...
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  16 January 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Tangshan Catholic Community marks 2023 as the Year of Spirituality Tangshan (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Tangshan, in the Chinese province of Hebei, is celebrating 2023 as the "Year of Spirituality". In the pastoral planning of the community, after the Year of the Fami ...
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  14 January 2023
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II: homosexuality contradicts God's plan and the Bible Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Homosexual behavior does not conform to the Bible and to the creative will of God, who «created Adam and Eve». This was reiterated by Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II, in an Egyptian televi ...