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16 November 2021
AFRICA/EGYPT - Protocol between the Coptic Church and the Egyptian government to improve living conditions in rural areas
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "For a dignified life". This is the formula that expresses the inspiration and objectives of the protocol just signed by representatives of the Egyptian government and the Coptic Orthodox Church t ...
16 November 2021
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Peace is not the absence of war: the country celebrates the National Day of Peace
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace is certainly not the absence of war, but it must be recognized that the absence of war says something about peace", wrote to Fides, Fr. Donald Zagore, Ivorian theologian of the Society fo ...
16 November 2021
VATICAN - Multiculturality and formation: the International Congress of Urbaniana University
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The annual International Congress of the Pontifical Urbaniana University is entitled "Multicultural communities for what formation?" and will be held at the university under the jurisdictio ...
16 November 2021
ASIA/CHINA - Promote lay catechists to be witnesses of Christ in today's society
Cheng Du (Agenzia Fides) - To train lay catechists so that they are "Christians of the new era" and witnesses of the Lord in today's Chinese society: these are the objectives of the VI Formation Course for lay catechists ...
15 November 2021
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Some Salesians released, others still in custody; humanitarian aid for the Ethiopia Emergency
Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - There are 14 people still held in custody by the Ethiopian police, including Salesian religious, brothers, laity, employees.
Seven other Salesians, plus an employed woman, were released by ...
15 November 2021
AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: Christians here are not "second class citizens"
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II praises Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi, invokes divine blessings on the champion footballer Mohamed Salah and holds back - for the moment - on any pr ...
15 November 2021
AFRICA/UGANDA - To promote the spiritual well-being of the faithful: new parishes open in the diocese of Lira
Lira (Agenzia Fides) - "In addition to the spiritual nourishment of Christians, the opening of new parishes in the diocese will bring, among others, further developments in the social sector such as schools, health facil ...
15 November 2021
AMERICA/MEXICO - 100 years after the bombing, the extraordinary Jubilee Year inaugurated in the Basilica of Guadalupe
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of Mexico, blessed and opened the Holy Door of the Basilica of Guadalupe on Sunday, November 14, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the bomb ...
15 November 2021
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - World Day of the Poor between charity initiatives and an invitation to solidarity
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - With an appeal to charity and with initiatives of solidarity towards the poor and the vulnerable, the fifth edition of the World Day of the Poor, established by Pope Francis at the end of Jubile ...
15 November 2021
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A new lay association dedicated to St. Joseph is born
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Filipino Bishops have decided to create "The Men Of Saint Joseph" (Philippines), an ecclesial association of "men consecrated to St. Joseph committed to living with Jesus" which, as Fides lea ...
15 November 2021
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Bishop of Beni: "Progress and justice cannot be built with imposition and force"
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "We will not be able to build a Bolivia for everyone, without walking together. The project of a Bolivia in progress and justice, so desired and so necessary, will not be realized with imposi ...
13 November 2021
AMERICA/CHILE - The Bishops: participation in the synodal journey and in the electoral process promotes the common good, equality and peace
Lo Canas (Agenzia Fides) - "May peace be with you" (Lk 24:36) is the title of the message that the Chilean Bishops published at the end of the Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference, which ended on November 12. Fir ...
13 November 2021
AMERICA - Father Maurício Jardim elected Continental Coordinator of the PMS
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the American continent who met online on November 11, elected Father Maurício Jardim, National Director of the PMS in Brazil ...
13 November 2021
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Millions of people in poverty, indifference would be even worse in the face of this situation
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Colombia has a very complex situation of poverty, there is an enormous number of people, millions, who eat once a day. Many of them have lost their jobs, others are in conditions of extreme vuln ...
13 November 2021
EUROPE/ROMANIA - Young missionaries flourish in the Greek-Catholic community of Roma children
Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - Several Roma children from the Greek-Catholic parish of Barbu Lautaru, dedicated to "Saint Andrew the Apostle" and to "Blessed Bishop Ioan Suciu", visited by the Holy Father during his apostol ...
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