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17 December 2019
AFRICA/MALAWI - Two important ecclesial meetings in Malawi
Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - "The meeting helped us to better plan and prepare for the year of the Bible", said the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Vincent Mwakwawa, at the end of the planning meeting of the biblical yea ...
17 December 2019
ASIA/INDIA - The new law on citizenship to immigrants "is unconstitutional": appeal to "civil disobedience"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The new law on citizenship (Citizenship Amendment Act 2019), approved by Parliament and promulgated on December 12 after the signature of the President of India, is clearly discriminatory, di ...
17 December 2019
ASIA/TURKEY - The new Armenian Patriarch: the issue of the Armenian Genocide exploited for economic-political strategies
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - "It hurts us to see the events that happened to the Armenians 100 years ago on these lands, transformed into instruments of economic, political or strategic pressure by the Parliaments of other ...
17 December 2019
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "Life is sacred": Bishops outraged by the rules on the decriminalization of abortion
San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Net refusal and indignation" for the signing of the so-called "technical regulation" on the decriminalization of abortion by President Carlos Alvarado Quesada, was expressed by the Episcopal ...
16 December 2019
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Prayer and solidarity for the earthquake victims in Mindanao
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A special prayer of the Rosary and a campaign of solidarity for the victims of the 6.9 magnitude earthquake that affected the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines on Sunday, December 15 ...
16 December 2019
AFRICA/NIGER - "Let us pray and fast for peace in Niger" urges the Archbishop of Niamey after the massacre of 70 soldiers
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "After the massacre of over 70 Nigerian soldiers in Inatés on 10 December, near the border with Mali, the government ordered three days of national mourning. On Friday 13 December, the day of pr ...
16 December 2019
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Children of today, our guardians of tomorrow
Bereina (Agenzia Fides) - "Children, what would you like to do today? It was fun to ask this question to our students of the Jesus Good Shepherd Primary school just after the flag-raising and prayer, to celebrate the rig ...
16 December 2019
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops' message: "We look forward to building a united Bolivia, in the God of life, above differences"
Tarija (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of their Extraordinary Assembly, held in Tarija on 11 and 12 December, the Bishops of Bolivia sent a message of peace to the Bolivian people for Christmas. The Bishops say they find mo ...
16 December 2019
ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai on the Lebanese crisis: "politicians have not listened to the voice of God"
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "If politicians were truly inspired by the divine will and prayed, Lebanon would not find itself today in a desperate economic and financial situation, with paralyzed institutions. The people wou ...
16 December 2019
AFRICA/CHAD - Appointment of the Bishop of Laï
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 14 December the Holy Father appointed as bishop of the diocese of Laï, Chad, the Reverend Nicolas Nadju Bab, of the clergy of Laï, currently diocesan administrator of the same diocese. ...
16 December 2019
AFRICA/KENYA - Resignation of Bishop of Kericho, Kenya, and appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kericho, Kenya, presented by Bishop Emmanuel Okombo Wandera, at the same time appointing Bishop Alfred ...
14 December 2019
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A missionary: "Seventy years of mission in Sierra Leone are our hard work, but also our joy"
Makeni (Agenzia Fides) - This year marks the 70th anniversary of the presence of the Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone (see Fides, 10/12/2019). For the occasion Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, a Xaverian missionary with a long ...
14 December 2019
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Pakistan Christians Parliamentarian Forum at the start
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistan Christians Parliamentarian Forum has been launched in Pakistan, a body in which Christian parliamentarians from different parties gather to discuss, confront each other and find solu ...
14 December 2019
ASIA/INDIA - Christians in Orissa united in faith and call for peace and reconciliation
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - In the Indian state of Orissa (or "Odisha"), in Southeast India, "the Church is close to the poor and marginalized, recognizing and working for their human dignity. There are also spontaneou ...
14 December 2019
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Reconciliation and peace first of all: the post-referendum expectations on Bougainville
Bougainville (Agenzia Fides) - On December 7, the referendum on independence of the autonomous region of Bougainville from Papua New Guinea concluded. 98 percent of the citizens of the islands that make it up voted in fa ...
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