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2 December 2021
EUROPE/FRANCE - Launch of the Missionary Reportage contest "Prix Pauline Jaricot" aimed at young people
Paris (Agenzia Fides) - The day after Missionary October and with a view to the beatification of Pauline Jaricot, scheduled for May 2022, the Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies of France has launched this week ...
2 December 2021
AFRICA/SUDAN - The commitment of Comboni missionaries: helping refugee minors from South Sudan to return to school
Kosti (Agenzia Fides) - "Political instability and social insecurity in South Sudan have caused a massive movement of people to cities and villages on the border with Sudan: our goal is to help boys and girls who come fr ...
1 December 2021
AMERICA - New web portal for the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (Repam)
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (Repam) has launched a new web portal (www.repam.net) that is more usable and accessible, so that everyone can consult the documentation and multimedia conte ...
1 December 2021
ASIA/HOLY LAND - "Autochthonous and rooted in this land". The Assembly of Christian Associations in Palestine is born
Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - A vibrant call to all Palestinian Christians to resist the pressures and temptations that push them to emigrate and rediscover the beauty of living in the land where Jesus was born, died and r ...
1 December 2021
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cardinal Yeom's farewell: "A joyful journey guided by the Holy Spirit"
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "The years of pastoral service in Seoul were a joyful journey guided by the Holy Spirit": with these words Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung celebrated a thanksgiving Mass yesterday, November 30, with ...
1 December 2021
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Oil company on trial for "complicity in war crimes"
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "It is encouraging to know that the Swedish authorities have decided to hold the oil company Lundin Energy to account for its role during the civil war", say the leaders of the various Christian de ...
1 December 2021
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - "Love and truth will meet, justice and peace will kiss": seminarians in Ebimpé focus on study, prayer and work
Ebimpé (Agenzia Fides) - "School, study, prayer, sport and work. These are some of the points on which the days in our Ebimpé Seminary revolve", said Fr. Leopoldo Molena, priest of the Society for African Missions in a ...
1 December 2021
ASIA/MYANMAR - Attacks on churches, the Bishop of Pekhon: it means "attacking the hearts of each of the faithful"
Pekhon (Agenzia Fides) - St. Nicholas Catholic Church in the town of Thantlang of the diocese of Hakha was burned down. As learned by local sources of Fides, on November 28 the Myanmar army burned more than 80 houses in ...
1 December 2021
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Water is a precious resource and a right: the Bishops ask to stop pollution and to ratify the reforms
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "The reality of water in our country is worrying", highlighted the Bishops of El Salvador in a statement entitled "Water is a precious resource that we must all protect". In the country the ...
30 November 2021
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Archdiocese of Santa Cruz after the new attacks: "Yes to the defense of women, but not with violence"
Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Santa Cruz expressed its disapproval of the new assault that took place in the late afternoon of November 25, when a group of feminists gathered outside the cathedral, shou ...
30 November 2021
ASIA/IRAQ - The Chaldean Patriarch Sako to the Iraqi communists: the country's evil is called sectarianism
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In Iraq the main obstacle to the start of a real democratic process is represented by the sectarian mentality which is also reflected in the so-called "quota system", the electoral and administr ...
30 November 2021
ASIA/INDIA - Jubilee of Catholic students: building a just and peaceful nation
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) To become "better people" as Christians, Hindus or Muslims, to be "agents of change that makes a difference", to build the common good in India, by committing to building a peaceful, just, open ...
30 November 2021
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Respect for indigenous peoples, agrarian reform, promotion of the common good: open letter from the Bishops to the authorities
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "We demand respect for the rights of indigenous peoples and the laws that govern them; we demand that priority be given to the right to land and property for all Paraguayans; we recommend the u ...
30 November 2021
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Apostolic Nuncio to young people: education is crucial for your future
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Your mission is to spread hope everywhere, we are baptized as children of hope. Do not be depressed, you are our future and we do not want you to say that you are depressed.
In order to build ...
30 November 2021
ASIA - Myanmar and Afghanistan: far, very close
Turin (Agenzia Fides) - Take stock of the two Asian conflicts that have occupied the most news during the year 2021: this is the objective of the seminar "Myanmar and Afghanistan: far, very close", organized in recent da ...
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