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  15 November 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Pastoral service with prisoners: human dignity is the key to any possible reform of the prison system Goa (Agenzia Fides) - Their pastoral service takes place mainly inside prisons. There they can meet, listen, understand, help prisoners and accompany them on a path that goes from release to full human rehabilitation, wi ...
• 15 November 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of coadjutor Archbishop of Maputo, Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop João Carlos Hatoa Nunes, until now bishop of Chimoio, as coadjutor Archbishop of Maputo, Mozambique. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 15/11/2022) ...
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  15 November 2022
  VATICAN - Studying the past to outline the future of the mission: the Conference for the fourth centenary of Propaganda Fide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "From the point of view of the history of the Church, and in particular, of the missions, the creation of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, better known as 'de Propa ...
• 15 November 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - After the Covid-19 pandemic, now there is that of the kidnapping of children Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Every 5 hours a child disappears in South Africa". The dramatic data is reported by Missing Children South Africa which cites the statistics of the South African police referring to 2013. ...
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  15 November 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Justice and Peace": two months after the constitutional referendum, still no shared proposal for a new itinerary Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In the referendum of September 4, Chileans expressed a large majority (more than 60%) of their negative opinion on the draft new Constitution. The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, implemented ...
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  14 November 2022
  ASIA/KIRGHIZSTAN - The project for the construction of the first Catholic cathedral has been presented Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - Kyrgyzstan will soon have its first Catholic cathedral. The religious building will rise in the heart of the capital Bishkek, and its first stone has already been blessed by Pope Francis. Constr ...
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  14 November 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - Giving back childhood to street children and offering them a better future Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Reception and rehabilitation services, education, are some of the interventions that the Salesian missionaries have launched in favor of street children in the areas where they are involved. 'Reco ...
• 14 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops warn of 'miracle healers' and 'false prophets' Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Beware of false prophets. Some of these use the pulpit and television to deceive the people of God", warned Msgr. David Ajang, Bishop of Lafia, in his homily on Sunday November 13, warning the fa ...
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  14 November 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Ten couples choose the sacrament of marriage: a new path in the Catholic community Thakurgaon (Agenzia Fides) - They have asked to receive the sacrament of marriage now, after beginning their life as a couple in previous years. This is the choice made by ten couples accompanied, spiritually and pastora ...
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  14 November 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops "to governors and governed": wisdom and dialogue in the face of growing hatred and resentment Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "We Bishops of Bolivia, gathered for the 111th Assembly, make an appeal to the entire Bolivian people, to the governors and the governed, in the face of everything we are experiencing, in the ...
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  12 November 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Forced marriages increase the risk of violence and suicide for women Wau (Agenzia Fides) - A young 19-year-old mother is serving a three-month prison sentence in the Wau juvenile detention center, in the western Bahr el Ghazal state of South Sudan, for refusing to marry a man chosen by he ...
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  12 November 2022
  VATICAN - "Euntes in mundum universum": an international conference on the 400 years of Propaganda Fide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Four centuries of mission, four centuries of proclamation of the Gospel. This is the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, today the Dicastery for Evangelization. A long and intense history, whi ...
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  12 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Minna on upcoming elections: “People want change in Nigeria” Minna (Agenzia Fides) - "Even if the youths and fringe groups do not succeed in putting in power the political leaders of their choices, they have started something – a new movement that will bring about a ‘New’ Ni ...
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  11 November 2022
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - An "informal" school on the outskirts of Luanda in one of the parish chapels Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Education in Angola is of poor quality, it lacks in infrastructure, school materials and trained teachers. While it is compulsory and free for children aged four, for children between the ages of ...
• 11 November 2022
  AFRICA/CONGO - Caritas: More than 2,600 refugees from the DRC are in a precarious situation; the Bishops of the DRC call for a march for peace on December 4 Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) – More than 2,600 refugees in central-eastern Congo-Brazzaville live in precarious conditions. This was stated by Caritas Congo according to which the conditions of the children in particula ...