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  3 January 2024
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Kenyan missionary found dead; Warao indigenous people call for "serious and credible" investigation Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - A "serious and credible" investigation into the death of the missionary "with a big smile". This is what the Warao community from the Delta Amacuro state in eastern Venezuela is demanding in ord ...
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  2 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Mission in the villages of the Mentawai Islands: traveling by canoe and on foot along dangerous paths Padang (Agenzia Fides) - "Love your neighbor as yourself, together we will enjoy what he has given us" sing the young people of the indigenous communities in the remote areas of the Mentawai Islands, west of Sumatra, one ...
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  2 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The first Apostolic Prefecture entrusted to the Chinese clergy celebrates its 100th anniversary Puqi (Agenzia Fides) - A hundred years ago, thanks to the persistent efforts of Archbishop Celso Costantini, the first Apostolic Delegate to China, the Apostolic Prefecture of Puqi in Hubei Province was founded with the ...
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  2 January 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Tshisekedi re-elected President but the opposition denounces irregularities in the election Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The outgoing President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Félix Tshisekedi, was re-elected, with 73.34% of the vote. This emerges from the official results announced by the Independent Electo ...
• 2 January 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Sokoto: "The Christmas massacres aim to destabilize Nigeria" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - " Can we continue to believe that there is no long-term plan to take over the reins of power of the Nigerian state?" asks Matthew Hassan-Kukah, bishop of Sokoto in the aftermath of the massacres t ...
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  30 December 2023
  "You do not go to Heaven alone." The life of self-sacrifice of witnesses to the faith, for the salvation of all by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the year that is about to end, at least twenty Catholic missionaries, and pastoral care workers were killed. And also at the end of this year, like every year, Agenzia Fid ...
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  30 December 2023
  VATICAN - Missionaries and pastoral care workers killed in 2023 Dossier edited by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, 20 missionaries were killed in the world in 2023: 1 Bishop, 8 priests, 2 non-religious men, 1 semi ...
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  29 December 2023
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Star Singers Campaign 2024: "Together for our Earth - in the Amazon and worldwide" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - "Together for our Earth - in the Amazon and worldwide" is the motto of the 66th Star Singers campaign of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood in Germany (Kindermissionswerk/"Die Sternsing ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - From Beijing to Inner Mongolia, a Christmas of faith and charity for Chinese Catholics Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A Christmas of faith and charity was experienced by Catholic communities in all the provinces of the People's Republic of China. During vigils and solemn masses, prayers were said for peace and ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Over twenty thousand participants from different ethnic groups, languages and rites at the Christmas Eve Mass Awali (Agenzia Fides) - "We come to Bethlehem grotto to present our needs and praises. We look for blessing and grace. The new born child will carry us to a radiant life and a new participation in the divine life." This ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - The legacy of mother Eliswa, a woman who worked for the emancipation and education of women in India by Sister Roobini Chinnappan Varapuzha (Agenzia Fides) - She was a woman who worked for other women in India, for social emancipation and for the elevation of their status and culture. At the head of a religious cong ...
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  23 December 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Camillian Missionaries await Christmas between pastoral service and visits to the elderly Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in Flores everything happens in a fairly calm climate, there is a Christmas atmosphere with decorations and colorful lights that our Muslim friends also admire and are impressed", writes F ...
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  23 December 2023
  VATICAN - Pius XII, the Korean War, the West and that Christmas of 1951 by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas 1951, like now, the world was at war. At the time it was the Korean War. It began with the invasion of South Korea by the North Korean army (June 25, 1950). An immense ...
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  23 December 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - The readiness of Charity: at Christmas Time, Chinese Catholic communities help earthquake-affected people by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - In the days leading up to the celebration of Holy Christmas, marked in China by the effects of a devastating earthquake, Chinese Catholics promptly put into practice the commandm ...
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  22 December 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christmas Message of the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem: may the light of Jesus overcome the darkness of death that envelops the Holy Land Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the birth of Jesus arrives this year during a new time of calamity "in the land of our Lord’s birth". A time in which the horrors of war sow "inconsolable misery and sorro ...