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  17 January 2019
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Young Koreans bring their passion for peace to WYD Cartago (Agenzia Fides) - Young Koreans bring their passion and commitment for peace to World Youth Day in Panama: as Agenzia Fides learns, 41 Korean pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Seoul, accompanied by Mgr. Peter Chun ...
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  17 January 2019
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Archbishop Goh: "May religions be united in promoting spiritual values in a secularized society" Singapore - "It is important that all religions work together to ensure that there are signs of closeness and sharing especially in the various religious feasts, celebrations and other occasions, this is important in the ...
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  17 January 2019
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Protests for fuel price hikes; the Bishops invite not to listen to incitements to violence Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Three people killed, around 200 wounded, more than 600 arrested. This is the toll of the clashes which took place in past days in Harare and in other cities of Zimbabwe, between the police and de ...
• 17 January 2019
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Confirmation of Fr. Salvator Ngendabanyikwa as National Director of the PMS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 28, 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Salvator Ngendabanyikwa, of the diocesan clergy of Ruyigi, as Nati ...
• 17 January 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Ijebu-Ode and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Ijebu-Ode (Nigeria), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Albert Ayinde Fasina. The Holy Father appoin ...
• 17 January 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Tuticorin and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tuticorin (India), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Yvon Ambroise. The Pope appointed Rev. Fr. ...
• 17 January 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Nearly 900 people killed in the West in clashes among communities Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Almost 900 people were massacred in four villages in community violence in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), between 16 and 18 December. This was reported by the UN High Commi ...
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  17 January 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - The icon of the "Mysterious Supper" returns to the Syrian village of Maalula Maalula (Agenzia Fides) - A copy of the icon of the Mysterious Supper - stolen from the shrine of St. Sergius and Bacchus in Maalula in 2014 when the Syrian village was occupied by al-Nusra jihadists - has been relocated ...
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  17 January 2019
  VATICAN - "The entire Church, all the Churches for the whole world": towards the Extraordinary Missionary Month Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The entire Church, all the Churches for the whole world": this sentence of blessed Paolo Manna, Pime, whose liturgical memorial is celebrated on January 16, inspired the Day of spiritualit ...
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  15 January 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Presentation of the logo for the beatification of the martyrs of La Rioja, "the joy of the whole people" La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - The Argentine diocese of La Rioja presented the logo and the theme of the beatification of Mgr. Enrique Angelelli, of the priests Carlos Murias ofm and Gabriel Longueville and of layman Wencesl ...
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  15 January 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians and Muslims together to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the encounter between St. Francis and the Sultan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - To commemorate the historic event of the encounter between St. Francis with the Sultan of Egypt, AL-Kamil in the year 1219, modernize it in today's Pakistan, launching a universal message of tole ...
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  15 January 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Central African Bishops denounce: "Some UN contingents do not protect civilians" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - There are contingents of the Blue Helmets of the UN Mission in Central Africa (MINUSCA) who do not do their duty to protect civilians. This is the accusation launched by the Central African Bisho ...
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  15 January 2019
  AMERICA/PERU - The work of the Assembly of Bishops begins: "Synodality belongs to the whole Church" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - 49 Peruvian Bishops yesterday inaugurated their 113th Plenary Assembly with a Mass celebrated in the parish of San Antonio de Padua, district of Jesus Maria, in Lima. Mgr. Miguel Cabrejos, Archbish ...
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  15 January 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Churches closed under pressure from Islamists in Minya. Coptic jurists denounce the local authorities of connivance with sectarianism Minya (Agenzia Fides) - Some Coptic jurists have denounced the governor of Minya province before the attorney general about the facts that in recent days have led to the closure of a Coptic place of worship in the villag ...
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  14 January 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - A missionary: "We do not know where Fr. Maccalli is, we live in a climate of insecurity" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we live in a climate of insecurity that reigns on the border area with Burkina Faso. Almost every week, there are armed attacks that mainly target the military and law enforcement agencies ...