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  10 January 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Strong protests after the announcement of Tshisekedi's victory in the presidential elections Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - On the night between 9 and 10 January the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) declared Félix Tshisekedi the winner of the Congolese presidential elections on 30 December. He obtai ...
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  9 January 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Assault against the Comboni nuns: "The goal was the loot, not religion" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The assailants were common bandits. Small criminals who were looking for an easy loot to take away": this is how the Italian Comboni nuns summarize the assault suffered by the Foyer Community of ...
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  9 January 2019
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Over 5 million pilgrims at the Black Nazarene feast Manila (Agenzia Fides) - More than five million devotees attended the "Traslacion", the annual procession featuring the image of the Black Nazarene, which started on January 9th, with a prayer vigil during the night. Thi ...
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  9 January 2019
  ASIA/TURKEY - The beginning of the construction of the first church in Turkish territory since 1923 has been announced Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The works for the construction of what will become the first newly built church in the Republic of Turkey will begin by next February. This was announced on Tuesday, January 8th, by Bulent Keri ...
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  9 January 2019
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Waiting for the results. "Justice and Peace" of Belgium: "The international community must do its part" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo rises, where the results of the presidential and political elections of December 30 are expected to be announced. Dozens of poli ...
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  9 January 2019
  ASIA/INDONESIA - For the Church of Jakarta 2019 is "the Year of wisdom" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Jakarta officially declares that 2019 will be "The Year of Wisdom". As Agenzia Fides learns, the pastoral focus will be directed above all to social issues and how to face the ...
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  8 January 2019
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The family, a sign of love for society: towards the extraordinary missionary month Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "What will we do to be able to see beautiful and new things during 2019? Let us enter the Year dedicated to the family and in June 2019 we will hold a large diocesan gathering of families. In ...
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  8 January 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Priest stabbed by thieves who entered the parish Trinidad (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Adam Bravo Mendoza, 78-year-old diocesan priest, of La Santa Cruz parish in the city of Trinidad, in the Apostolic Vicariate of Beni in Bolivia, was stabbed by some criminals who tried to ...
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  8 January 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A missionary says: "father, why did God allow me to be born in South Sudan?" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "I arrived in South Sudan in Juba in January 2015, where we have the only home of the Friars Minor of the country. At the beginning we were 5 friars, two from Italy, one from Slovakia, Australia an ...
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  8 January 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops warn: "Do not irritate the population, proclaim the truth" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is the irregularities that would irritate the population and the most serious thing that could lead the Congolese people to revolt would be to publish results which do not conform to the tr ...
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  8 January 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - Controversy on sales and demolition of churches. The response of the Chaldean Patriarchate Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The news on the sale of two churches in Baghdad are fueling controversies involving the local Christian communities, also highlighting contrasts between ecclesial hierarchies and Christians invo ...
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  8 January 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Islamabad Declaration: "a step to defeat extremism" Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The Declaration of Islamabad is a step in the right direction. We need to develop it to improve the image of the country: this is the way forward: government and opposition must work togethe ...
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  8 January 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Nicaragua crisis returns to OAS on January 11 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua and president of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN), after Mass last Sunday, 6 January, said that it will be necessary to analyze and imp ...
• 7 January 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Port Blair Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 6 January 2019 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Port Blair, India, presented by H.E. Msgr. Aleixo Das Neves Dias, S.F.X. (SL) (Agenzia Fi ...
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  7 January 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Comboni Missionaries attacked and robbed in their community Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "On 5 January 2019, the Foyer Community of the Comboni Missionary Sisters in Bangui, in Central Africa, was attacked and robbed by a gang of about 8-9 people – said the Superior General of the ...