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  13 January 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Church warns of “fake news” on social media Cairo (Agenzia Fides) -"The multiplication of social communication platforms and networks is leading to information chaos: anyone can write messages and send anything online without having to take into account the authen ...
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  12 January 2021
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Legislative elections: Nur Otan party of former president Nazarbayev wins Nur Sultan (Agenzia Fides) - "After the resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, it was believed that Kazakhstan could open itself to the first democratic concessions on a political and economic level and emulate the so-call ...
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  12 January 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops: "The protection of one's own life and the health of others is a moral duty" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "The global Covid-19 pandemic is causing suffering, uncertainty, fear and fatigue in the entire population. We think of the victims of this pandemic, their families and those who are currently su ...
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  12 January 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Politics is not the simple art of managing power, resources or crises", warns Bishop Álvarez, in the face of the increase in violence Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa, Mgr. Rolando Álvarez, urged the Nicaraguan politicians to seek the common good and not just their own private interests, since in the country "coherenc ...
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  12 January 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Murder of two young Christians, killed for not wanting to give up their faith according to the pastor of their Protestant community Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The merciless murder of Abida and Sajida is a tragedy that shows how the lives of religious minorities in Pakistan are held by a thread or is worthless. Rape, kidnappings, forced conversions and ...
• 12 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - After the release of the Italian missionary: "Attacks on Christians continue" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The feast for the liberation of Father Pierluigi Maccalli, last October, after two years of imprisonment in the desert, was short-lived", writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, brother of F ...
• 12 January 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 October 2020, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Father Claude Bernard Wakouzou, of the Comboni missionaries, MCCJ ...
• 12 January 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Two Bishops denounce: "Distressing situation for migrants at the South African border due to Covid controls" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Over the past few days the distressing situation at the border posts in Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe has made headlines. This occurred at the beginning and at the end of ...
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  12 January 2021
  VATICAN - Father Leonardo Sileo confirmed as Rector of the Urbaniana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 January 2021, the Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, confirmed Prof. Fr. Leonardo Sileo, OFM, as Rector of the Pontifical Urbaniana Univers ...
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  12 January 2021
  ASIA/TURKEY - Sister Maria Concetta Mustacciu died of Covid-19: "guardian" of the Church of Tarsus Tarsus (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Maria Concetta Mustacciu of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Church died yesterday, Monday, January 11th as a result of Covid-19 disease. Sister Maria Concetta was the mother super ...
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  11 January 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The nun kidnapped on January 8 released by kidnappers; dozens of acts of violence occur every day Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - According to information sent to Fides by the Secretary General of the Conference of Religious of Haiti, Father Gilbert Peltrop, Sister Dachoune Sévère, a religious of the Congregation ...
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  11 January 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Publication of the slogan and logo of the Pope's apostolic visit to Iraq Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "You are all Brothers": the expression of Jesus, taken from a verse of Matthew's Gospel ("As for you, do not be called 'Rabbi.' You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers", Mt 23, 8) has ...
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  11 January 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Violations of the right to information and to the work of journalists denounced by the Archdiocese of Caracas Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On January 9, the Third Session of the Ordinary Plenary Assembly of of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV) took place digitally, during which the Archbishops and Bishops of the country w ...
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  11 January 2021
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - The contribution of Catholic nurses to health assistance during the pandemic, a channel of God's love Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic nurses in Singapore, in this time of pandemic, are a valid and precious contribution, and it is an extraordinary channel for communicating God's love. This is what the Archdiocese ...
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  11 January 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - New violence in Araucania: appeal of the Bishop of Temuco, "only fraternity generates social peace" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "These days our region, already deeply affected by the pandemic, poverty and lack of opportunities, polarization, failure to keep the promises made to the Mapuche people and the feeling of abando ...