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  19 November 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - National dialogue convened: to pacify the country, hold elections and a new electoral Court La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Episcopal Conference (CEB), representatives of the European Union and the United Nations officially convened the national dialogue table yesterday, November 18, at 2.30 pm, with thre ...
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  19 November 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - Erdogan: churches destroyed in Syria will be rebuilt Deir ez Zor (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish government is "particularly sensitive" with respect to the condition of Christian communities in the Middle Eastern region, and with its contribution Syrian Christians will see " ...
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  19 November 2019
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - A new building for the Issyk Center, the holiday home for disabled and poor children Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - The Issyk Center, the home for disabled and poor Kyrgyz children, located on the shores of Lake Issyk-kul and managed by the religious of the Society of Jesus, will be expanded with the construc ...
• 18 November 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Bishop of Eldoret Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 16, the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Dominic Kimengich, currently Bishop of Lodwar, as Bishop of the Diocese of Eldoret (Kenya). (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 18/11/2019) ...
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  18 November 2019
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Come, Lord Jesus": Bishops’ message of hope, December 8 day of prayer for Chile Lo Canas (Agenzia Fides) - At the conclusion of the Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Chile (see Fides, 13/11/2019), the Bishops published a message addressed "to the faithful and to the communities of the ...
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  18 November 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Pakistani Church inaugurates "The Year of Youth" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Pakistan inaugurates the Year of Youth: with a celebration held on November 16 in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Lahore, the Bishops of Pakistan announced the event b ...
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  18 November 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission support for victims of terrorism in Sri Lanka Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "I recently returned from one of the most difficult journeys of my priestly life: I visited the survivors of the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, innocent people whose lives were torn to piece ...
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  18 November 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - Prayer for the release of Fr. Pierluigi Maccalli 14 months after his abduction Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – After fourteen months since the abduction of the missionary of the SAM (Society of African Missions), Fr. Pierluigi Maccalli, which took place in Niger on 17 September 2018 (see Fides, 18/9/201 ...
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  18 November 2019
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The closing of the Extraordinary Missionary Month has opened a new page of Evangelization in Tanzania Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "The pastoral visit of the President of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the world, His Exc Mgr. Giampietro Dal Toso, is a sign that the local church of Tanzania is in communion with th ...
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  16 November 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "The «portico» of the Church of Pope Francis": Cardinal Filoni at the San Damaso University Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis called the whole Church, which lived a moment of immobility, to a momentum and a renewed zeal in evangelization, taking into account the ecol ...
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  16 November 2019
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - World Day of the Poor, the Carmelites: "Closeness to the most needy is a priority for the Church" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "Currently the problem of poverty in Cameroon has worsened: there is hunger, food is lacking, prices are high due to the high rate of inflation and people find it hard to get what they need. M ...
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  15 November 2019
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Atyrau Apostolic Administration turns 20, following in the footsteps of Blessed Bukovinsky Atyrau (Agenzia Fides) - "During the Last Supper, our Lord gave us the commandment of love: "As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love ...
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  15 November 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Sunday 17th day of prayer for Colombia: everyone is needed to look to the future with hope Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the national strike called for on November 21, the Colombian Bishops recall in a statement that "mobilizations are a democratic right when they are the expression of freedom and respo ...
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  15 November 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The violence of "nameless armed groups" paralyzes the North of the country Pemba (Agenzia Fides) - There is no peace for the north of Mozambique. After months of attacks on villages which caused the death of many people and many were wounded, raids were carried out on the main roads, blocking t ...
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  15 November 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - Lebanese crisis, the initiatives of Patriarch Rai to exorcise the ghosts of the past Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - After the start of protest demonstrations that have shaken Lebanon since October 17, there is the prayer of the Holy Rosary in the church of the Maronite patriarchal see of Berkè every day, at f ...