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  28 January 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The establishment of bodies for the correct management of the assets of Catholic and Evangelical Churches continues at an intense pace Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The work of the government commission committed to preparing a bill for the establishment of property management bodies belonging to the Catholic Church and to the Evangelical Churches in Egypt co ...
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  28 January 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Continental Symposium on the mission ad gentes has begun Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) – The Continental Symposium on the mission ad gentes has begun, which will be held at the Cardinal Paul Zoungrana National Center in Ouagadougou from January 27 to February 1, 2020. Initial ...
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  28 January 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Prayer for peace in Abidjan no longer includes the procession "due to security reasons" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - It is an initiative scheduled since October 2019; unfortunately, the implementation of this project suffers from ambivalent, contradictory and ambiguous interpretations. This risks, if you are n ...
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  28 January 2020
  AFRICA/TOGO - A legal framework is needed that guarantees peaceful, credible, free and transparent elections Kara (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the presidential elections in Togo, the atmosphere between political powers and the Church remains very tense. "As in Ivory Coast, the Catholic Church in Togo is also accused of being ...
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  27 January 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Violence against the latest caravan of migrants", denounces a priest Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - About 500 Central American migrants of the caravan of migrants in the first group of 2020 took refuge in the diocesan "Belen" home-refuge in the diocese of Tapachula (Mexico). In a note sent ...
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  27 January 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Nessuna notizia sui 4 membri di SOS Chrétiens d’Orient scomparsi a Baghdad Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Four men working in Iraq for SOS Chretiens d'Orient (SOS Eastern Christians), a French Christian charity, have been missing since Monday 20 January in Baghdad. The missing workers were in Baghda ...
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  27 January 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - First-Ever Congress of Clergy in Ivory Coast planned for July Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Some time ago, in order to express their closeness to their priests and help them, support them in their pastoral and ministerial efforts, the Bishops decided to organize an extraordinary congr ...
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  25 January 2020
  VATICAN - A day devoted to the Bible should not be seen as a yearly event but rather a year-long event: initiatives in local Churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "A day devoted to the Bible should not be seen as a yearly event but rather a year-long event, for we urgently need to grow in our knowledge and love of the Scriptures and of the risen Lord ...
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  25 January 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Human rights abuses, sectarian violence and discrimination in society: a new Report Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The standard of respect for human rights in Pakistan is worrying, especially for those who live in poverty, are of lower social status or belong to ethnic or religious minorities: this is what ...
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  25 January 2020
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics remember a young Chinese priest and missionary of Tibetan ethnicity, who devoted his life for the Gospel Di Qing (Agenzia Fides) - Everyone remembers him as a holy man and as an ardent missionary: on the night of January 17, the feast of St Anthony Abate, a hermit, a man of solitary life and prayer, Fr. Joseph Ma Zha Xi, wh ...
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  25 January 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - "Fratelli Project": Lasallians and Marists together to help Syrian and Iraqi children Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The cooperation of the religious "Fratelli De La Salle" and "Fratelli Marists" bears fruit in Lebanon: the "Fratelli Project", promoted jointly by the two religious institutes, is a sure point of ...
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  25 January 2020
  AFRICA - Comboni missionaries, "men of the Word of God" on the African continent Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the first half of the last century the Comboni Missionaries (MCCJ) in Africa had produced - in addition to specialized studies disseminated in various articles for magazines and books - 63 gramm ...
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  25 January 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Week of prayer for Christian unity: the Council of the traditional Kazakh Church is born Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - The Kazakh Catholic Church, together with the Russian Orthodox Church and the Lutheran Church present in Kazakhstan, gave birth to the "Council of the traditional Christian Church of Kazakhstan". ...
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  24 January 2020
  VATICAN - "Sunday of the Word of God": the contribution of missionaries to translations into local languages Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday, January 26, the first "Sunday of the Word of God" will be celebrated in the world, announced by Pope Francis with the Apostolic Letter "Aperuit Illis", so that "the life of our peop ...
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  24 January 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - 10 Christians and 7 Muslims (4 Shiites and 3 Sunnis) among the ministers of the next Lebanese government Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Almost three months after the resignation of the government led by Saad Hariri, in a political and social climate still marked by unresolved tensions, Lebanon is preparing to have a new governmen ...