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  9 November 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The bill to protect women rejected: protest campaign by Christians Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "We must all be united to defend and promote the proposed bill to protect women of religious minorities from forced conversions. Not only do we want this proposal to become law, but we also want ...
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  9 November 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The National Director of the PMS: prayer, the only weapon in the dramatic situation in the Horn of Africa Hosanna (Agenzia Fides) - "We have followed Pope Francis' appeal on the conflict situation in the Horn of Africa in general and the Ethiopian people in particular with attentiveness. This appeal to prayer is the only pos ...
• 9 November 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Nnewi and appointment Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Nnewi (Nigeria), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Hilary Paul Odili Okeke. The Holy Father has appoin ...
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  9 November 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - "You are a living Church": 400 boys and girls expected in Bagdhad for the meeting of the Chaldean Youth Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "You are a living Church". The words spoken by Pope Francis in Baghdad, in the homily of the liturgical concelebration he presided over in the Chaldean Cathedral of St. Joseph during his pastora ...
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  9 November 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Salesian missionaries arrested, committed to the education of children: appeal for release Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - In a climate of general chaos and uncertainty, the news, confirmed to Fides by local sources, of a raid carried out on November 5 by government military forces in a center in Gottera (Addis ...
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  9 November 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishops: "We must give priority to evangelization and also necessary to evangelize the field of politics and politicians" Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "We must give priority to evangelization ... Furthermore, it is necessary to evangelize the field of politics and politicians, according to the proposal of the Church's Social Doctrine, so tha ...
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  8 November 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The Church for the Bicentenary: the participation of the Church in independence and nation building Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Catholic Church is participating in initiatives promoted by governmental, academic and civil institutions, for the Bicentenary of the Independence of Peru from Spain (28 July 1821), al ...
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  8 November 2021
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Keep the door of hope open, especially for women Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "That thread of hope that opened in the early 2000s in Afghanistan began to disappear with the shrinking of humanitarian space and the advance of the war". This is what Alessandra Morelli, long-tim ...
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  8 November 2021
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Christians bring "the light of hope and care" alongside people of other faiths Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - "We have been living with the pandemic for almost two years and we have seen how it has been a universal cause of suffering for mankind. Yet, even in times of greatest darkness, faith communit ...
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  8 November 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Bishops of the Amazon ask for "urgent and courageous commitments from COP26 to combat climate change" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Brazilian Amazon released a video with an appeal to world leaders participating in the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26) asking to hear "the cry of Mot ...
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  8 November 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrinian Year, the Vicar General: "Accompanying the migrant multiplies the missionary announcement" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "To re-propose the figure of Mgr. Scalabrini in his relevance and in his holiness: make him known, talk about him, tell about his passion for migrants so that others feel the same passion and inter ...
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  8 November 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - International mobilization for peace Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - An emergency session of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) has been called for today, Monday, November 8, 2021. The session, motivated by recent changes in the co ...
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  8 November 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - The alarm of Catholic Patriarchs and bishops: let us resist the designs of those who want to annihilate Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the designs pursued by those who want to cancel the singular and unparalleled physiognomy of Lebanon from the Middle Eastern scenario, the only effective response remains that of retur ...
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  6 November 2021
  ASIA - Conflicts in Asia: Afghanistan and Myanmar the most serious cases Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Seven countries in Asia experienced active armed conflicts in 2020 and 2021. There were three in South Asia: Afghanistan, civil war (major internationalized civil war), India (high-intensity, inter ...
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  6 November 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Violence in Tigray, the Apostolic Vicar of Hosanna: it is urgent to seek peace and security Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "I am deeply saddened by everything that is happening in the Tigray region and in the regions alongside Amhara and Afar, even though unrest has been occurring throughout the country for at l ...