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  14 February 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church renews its commitment to dialogue for social harmony Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in India is committed and will continue to commit itself to promoting dialogue and social harmony, also and above all in the midst of conflicts or social and political crises: says ...
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  14 February 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New massacres in Ituri Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Massacres continue in general indifference in Ituri, in the province of North Kivu, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, attributed to the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces). Acco ...
• 14 February 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saints Peter and Paul" philosophical seminary in Ouagadougou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 25 April 2019 Card. Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rector of the "Saints Peter and Paul" inter-diocesan major philosophical Sem ...
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  14 February 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Aid to religious minorities and Dalits from the government of Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the state of Orissa, led by Prime Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik, has allocated 16 million Indian rupees (over 200 thousand euros) as a special contribution to religious and ...
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  13 February 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The commitment of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate for the promotion of women Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The Daughters of Mary Immaculate Sisters (DMI) are seriously committed to promoting the life of women in Port Moresby. Over the past year, women religious have carried out projects to impro ...
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  13 February 2020
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Coronavirus: public Masses and Ash Wednesday liturgy suspended Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - In the fight against the spread of the coronavirus, the diocese in Hong Kong has decided to suspend all public Masses for two weeks. "The next two weeks will be a crucial time to suppress the ...
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  13 February 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The President has brought Nigeria to the brink" accuses the Bishop of Sokoto Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "No one could have imagined that in winning the Presidency, General Buhari would bring nepotism and clannishness into the military and the ancillary Security Agencies, that his government would be ...
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  13 February 2020
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops: "our permanent mission is to announce Jesus Christ" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "Our main task as Bishops is to promote, guide and animate evangelization in our country, with the help of priests, consecrated persons and the many lay people to whom we express our than ...
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  13 February 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A kidnapped Christian girl reunites with her family Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – At present we can consider it a story with a happy ending, but it remains a rare case. Sneha, 14, a Christian girl from a family who lives in the "colony" of Bahar, Lahore, who had been kidnapp ...
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  13 February 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The celebrations for the 40th anniversary of Opus Dei in the Ivory Coast are to begin Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Celebrating these 40 years means realizing the miracles that God can do. From the five lay people at the beginning of 1980, today there are about 500 faithful of Opus Dei in the Ivory Coast, in ...
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  13 February 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Syriac Orthodox monk Sefer Bileçen indicted as "terrorist supporter" Mardin (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish authorities have formally charged Syriac Orthodox monk Sefer Bileçen for complicity with terrorist organizations and activities. The monk was arrested last January 9 by Turkish secur ...
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  13 February 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Elections, a light of hope for the country that must be nurtured and protected Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Future elections, which have yet to be determined, open a constitutional and peaceful possibility of emerging from the current social, political and economic crisis that Nicaragua is experiencin ...
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  12 February 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Inter-ethnic clashes: the Church prays for the victims and calls for peace Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "We pray for all those who have suffered, for those who still suffer, for the deceased and hospitalized. We pray and hope that the spirit of reconciliation among the inhabitants of these populati ...
• 12 February 2020
  OCEANIA/MICRONESIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Caroline Islands and successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 January 2020, the Holy Father accepted the renunciation of the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Caroline Islands (Federated States of Micronesia), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Amand ...
• 12 February 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Antonio de Jesùs Mascorro Tristàn, MG Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 21, 2019 Card. Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Antonio de Jesùs Mascorro Tristàn, MG (Santa Maria de Gua ...