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  10 November 2021
  AMERICA/COSTARICA - Education, a privileged field for personal and family growth, for a culture of friendship and solidarity Alajuela (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church, as an expert on humanity, is close to people, she works in solidarity and proclaims to them the fullness to which they are called in Christ. She is therefore present in the field o ...
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  10 November 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros and Grand Imam Al Tayyeb celebrate ten years of activity of the "House of the Egyptian Family" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The ten-year anniversary of the "House of the Egyptian Family", which sees itself as an interreligious liaison and aims to prevent or defuse sectarian conflicts, took place under the motto "10 yea ...
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  10 November 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A Catholic church hit by rockets, Baptist churches burned down Pekhon (Agenzia Fides) - Last night some rockets and heavy weapon bullets fired by soldiers of the Burmese army hit the Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, in the diocese of Pekhon, in the southern part of the Shan S ...
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  9 November 2021
  AMERICA - The program of the First Ecclesial Assembly of Latin America and the Caribbean has been published Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Latin American Episcopal Council (Celam) has published the general program of the First Ecclesial Assembly of Latin America and the Caribbean, which will be held from November, 21 to 28 ...
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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 ...