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  2 December 2019
  ASIA/TURKEY - New requests from the Armenian community to cancel the process for the election of the new Patriarch Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The provision preventing potential candidates residing abroad from taking part in the election of the new Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople continues to cause malaise and negative reactions ...
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  30 November 2019
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Father Zerai's appeal: "An international plan to save African immigrants from detention centers" Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In Libyan detention centers the living conditions of hundreds of Africans are inhumane. Many lives are at risk if there is no plan or international intervention to save poor and unarmed prisoner ...
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  30 November 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Comboni Missionaries: "To accompany the population towards a path of peace and reconciliation" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "South Sudanese leaders have a moral obligation towards their citizens to promote real prospects for peace, development and democracy in the country". This is what Father Daniele Moschetti, a Combo ...
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  30 November 2019
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Drugs and drug addiction in Latin America: models of ecclesial community intervention Latin America is the land of cocaine and marihuana. Colombia, Peru and Bolivia are the world's largest producers of cocaine, while the major marihuana crops are in Mexico and Paraguay (in addition to Peru and Bolivia). F ...
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  30 November 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Paul Bhatti: hope and commitment for Shahbaz Bhatti to be declared a "martyr" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "In the diocese of Islamabad, the canonical process of declaring the martyrdom of Shahbaz Bhatti is once again being taken into consideration. Already some years ago, with Bishop Rufin Anthony ...
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  30 November 2019
  AFRICA - World AIDS Day: The DREAM program of the Community of Sant’Egidio for 11 African countries Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Saving the future of Africa by fighting the main cause of death among the continent's adolescents: HIV virus. This is the challenge of the DREAM program of the Community of Sant’ Egidio which, on ...
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  29 November 2019
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - A new church consecrated in "a year of gratitude" Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - "As a Catholic community in Kyrgyzstan, we are in the hands of the Lord who guides us, to continue planning our apostolic mission activity in the Country. We are experiencing a year of gratitude ...
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  29 November 2019
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Father Scalese: "Yes to cease-fire, stop violence against civilians" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "The priority is to reduce violence against civilians, and then to end the war with political dialogue". Barnabite priest Giovanni Scalese, at the head of the Missio sui iuris in Kabul, hopes that ...
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  29 November 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Mission is the "DNA" of Christian identity: the vocation of Catholic laity Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission should not be reduced to some activities: it is the DNA of our Christian identity and existence": this was stated by Father Valentine Gryk, National Director of the Pontifical Miss ...
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  29 November 2019
  VATICAN - Congress at Urbaniana University closes: mission in continental contexts, challenges and hopes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Ample space in the works of the International Congress "From Maximum illud to Evangelii gaudium", "on the urgency of the missionary transformation of the Church" (see Fides, 26/11/2019), wh ...
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  29 November 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Africa consecrated to the Merciful Heart of Jesus at the end of the 4th Congress on Divine Mercy Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "We implore your Mercy so that all the inhabitants of the continent may live as brothers and sisters who love each other". With this prayer, His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Arc ...
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  28 November 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Five innocent Christians released in jail in Orissa released on bail New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court of India has decided to release on bail five Christians sentenced to life imprisonment, who have been in prison for 11 years, charged with the murder of the Hindu swami Laxam ...
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  28 November 2019
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Passion and zeal at the service of patients: the commitment of the Catholic community of Chipata Lumezi (Agenzia Fides) - A nursing school in the district of Lumezi was recently inaugurated. The initiative is part of the Diocesan Strategic Plan 2017-2021 of the Catholic community of Chipata which, in the context of ...
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  28 November 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - This year alone 9 priests kidnapped in the State of Enugu Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Malachy Asadu, a priest from the Diocese of Nsukka, in the State of Enugu, in southern Nigeria was released two days after his abduction. This was confirmed by the Police yesterday, November 2 ...
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  28 November 2019
  ASIA/CHINA - Missionaries commemorated in the month of November to relaunch mission Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) - Celebrating, thanking and commemorating the missionaries who left their homeland to dedicate themselves to mission in China, to the point of shedding their blood, is a custom and tradition for t ...