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• 28 December 2021
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Alger Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 27, 2021 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Alger, Algeria, presented by Archbishop Paul Desfarges, S.J. The Hol ...
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  28 December 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Every year there are three hundred and sixty-five pages, on which we are like pencils writing our biography, day by day Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "In this year 2022 we are pencils in the hands of God. He can write straight on the crooked lines of the pandemic, disease and suffering; He can write with our collaboration his words that g ...
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  28 December 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Father Jacques Mourad: the monastery of Mar Elian, devastated by jihadists, could soon return to being a place of prayer and peace Quaryatayn (Agenzia Fides) - The ancient Monastery of Mar Elian, located on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Quaryatayn, which in 2016 had been devastated and desecrated by jihadist militiamen, could soon return to be ...
• 28 December 2021
  ASIA/JAPAN - Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Nagasaki Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today, the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan, presented by Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, P.S.S. At t ...
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  28 December 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest killed on Christmas Eve Abeokuta (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Luke Adeleke, 38, recently ordained priest, on August 19, 2017, of the diocese of Abeokuta, capital of the southwestern state of Ogun, was shot dead by gunmen while coming from a mass on ...
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  28 December 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Church appeal to lay down their arms after the massacre of civilians in Kayah Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Myanmar issues a general appeal to remove arms and stop a civil conflict that has taken the form of a "heartbreaking and horrible atrocity", as Cardinal Charles Manung Bo d ...
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  23 December 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - An appeal to brotherhood and solidarity from the Christian Bishops Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – To promote brotherhood and solidarity on the occasion of Christmas: this is the joint appeal of the Catholic and Protestant Bishops in Indonesia who, in a shared Christmas message, recall that ...
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  23 December 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Another year concludes without enactment of meaningful immigration reform Washington (Agenzia Fides) - As another year concludes without enactment of meaningful immigration reform, Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, auxiliary bishop of Washington and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bisho ...
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  23 December 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - We can all contribute to bringing peace to the earth, according to the bishop of Tombura-Yambio Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "Like these Holy Parents, we also find hope: Hope in the salvation Christ’s birth brings us; hope in a vaccine for the Coronavirus; hope that gradually we can fill our churches again without fe ...
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  23 December 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Faced with the legalization of gambling: we need to "promote the culture of work, not squeeze the poor" Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - "Legalizing gambling is squeezing the poor", denounces the Social and Addiction Pastoral of the Archdiocese of Córdoba, in view of the imminent discussion at the provincial level, of the bill t ...
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  23 December 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Church "suffers and shares the anxieties and pains of humanity" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "Ever since we began to see the bitter warning signs of a war, we have expressed in every way through declarations and prayers, the invitation to all actors to consider the path of dialogue ...
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  23 December 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Planting trees around churches. Coptic Patriarch Tawadros recalls the biblical sources of the ecological initiatives launched in view of "COP 27" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Since December 1st, at the suggestion of the Coptic Patriarchate, an extraordinary tree planting program has been launched in the areas surrounding the churches and places of worship of the Coptic ...
• 23 December 2021
  EUROPE/IRELAND - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Michael Kelly SPS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On October 21, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Michael Kelly, of St. Patrick's Society for Foreign Missio ...
• 23 December 2021
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Appointment of the Rector of the interdiocesan major Seminary in Bata Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 8, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Sebastian Mba Nguema Mokuy, of the diocesan clergy of Ebebi ...
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  23 December 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Vandalism in a Catholic church in southern India Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A 160-year-old Catholic church in the Chikkaballapur district, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka was vandalized on the morning of December 22. As confirmed to Fides by Father Joseh Ant ...