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  14 December 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic bishops set up new legal Offices Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On December 13th, 2022, the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land (ACOHL) organized a conference for the launching of two new offices: the Safeguarding Office & the Professional ...
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  14 December 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Hundreds of dead, wounded and missing, serious damage to buildings: floods in the capital of the country that is preparing to welcome the Pope Kisantu (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-four neighborhoods of Kinshasa, where some 12 million people live out of a total population of more than 17 million, have suffered serious damage due to the movements of earth caused by t ...
• 14 December 2022
  AFRICA/MALI - Appointment of the Bishop of Sikasso Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Sikasso (Mali) Msgr. Robert Cissé, of the clergy of the same diocese, currently ad interim Rector of St. Augustine’s Major Seminary ...
• 14 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Erection of the Diocese of Wukari and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has established the new diocese of Wukari (Nigeria), with territory separated from the diocese of Jalingo, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan See of Jos. The ...
• 14 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Six months after the massacre of the Saint-François-Xavier church in Owo, questions are being asked about who committed it Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - More than six months after the June 5 massacre at St. Francis Xavier Church in Owo, Ondo State (see Fides, 6/6/2022), Nigerians are waiting for the holding a trial against those arrested for their ...
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  13 December 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Caritas Vietnam: “Charity is our mission” Hai Phong (Agenzia Fides) - In the parish of Phú Xuân, in Ho Chi Minh city, Father Dominic Ngô Quang Tuyên has always been committed to evangelization and charity. He sought gestures of concrete closeness and help to ...
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  13 December 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops after protests: 'We must calm tempers to protect our weak democracy' Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian "Defensoria del Pueblo" has reported that during the weekend demonstrations took place in several cities of the country to demand the closure of Parliament, the resignation of the new ...
• 13 December 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Beira Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. António Manuel Bogaio Constantino, M.C.C.J., until now provincial superior of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus and chair of the ...
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  13 December 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Overcoming Ethnic Conflicts: Education as an Instrument of Peace Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "We firmly believe in education as an instrument of peace. Even in South Sudan, to manage the transition from arms to dialogue, it is necessary to invest in schools, which is essential fo ...
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  13 December 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Cardinal Parolin on Ukraine war: “We cannot imagine the future based on old patterns and military alliances” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of the war in Ukraine, "we cannot but ask ourselves whether we are doing everything, everything possible to put an end to this tragedy", said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of Stat ...
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  13 December 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: three days of "special fast" before Christmas, to ask for the gift of peace Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the third week of Advent, the Chaldean Patriarchate invites all baptized Chaldeans around the world in the days leading up to Christmas to a three-day fast for peace in Iraq ...
• 12 December 2022
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Chipata Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 10, 2022, the Holy Father appointed rev. Gabriel Msipu Phiri, of the clergy of Chipata, currently in charge of raising funds for diocesan activities, as Auxiliary Bishop of the ...
• 12 December 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Resignation of the Bishop of Kroonstad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Kroonstad (South Africa) presented by His Exc. Msgr. Peter John Holiday. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 1 ...
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  12 December 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Conversion without consent": a plague for Pakistani society Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Conversion without Consent": this is the title of the report presented yesterday, December 11, by the Pakistani NGO "Voice for Justice" in collaboration with the international NGO "Jubilee Camp ...
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  12 December 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Reduce the social and educational impact of the pandemic, especially on girls in less developed countries Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world in March 2020, it is estimated that more than 111 million students have dropped out of school in developing countries. Lockdowns and restrictions are estim ...