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  16 December 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Escalation of civil conflict, restrictions on humanitarian aid and accommodation in Buddhist monasteries Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - From 1 February 1, 2021 to December 14, 2022, in 2,130 days of civil conflict in Myanmar, the clashes, which also included 232 air raids carried out by the Burmese army, produced a total of 1.132 ...
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  16 December 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - Unprecedented summit between the Patriarchs of the Churches of Syriac tradition Atchaneh (Agenzia Fides) - An unprecedented and in some respects historic meeting between the leaders of the Churches of the Syriac tradition, to discuss and reflect together on the emergencies and problems faced by Chri ...
• 16 December 2022
  AFRICA/MALI - Sahel region: propaganda war between jihadist extremists Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - In a propaganda war, the jihadist extremist groups GSIM (also known by their Arabic acronym JNIM) and EIGS (also known as IS Sahel) operating in Mali claim through their respective social media t ...
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  15 December 2022
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “Christmas is often no longer called by its name” Santiago de los Caballeros (Agenzia Fides) - In his Christmas message, the President of the Bishops' Conference of the Dominican Republic, Archbishop Freddy Breton of Santiago de los Caballeros, laments that “Christmas ...
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  15 December 2022
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Campaign to fight drugs: substance abuse as early as the age of 12 Kassala (Agenzia Fides) - An unprecedented increase in crime related to drug addiction in the Kassala region has been denounced by the Head of the Department of the National Campaign against Drugs (NCCD). The phenomenon ...
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  15 December 2022
  AMERICA/HAITI - Foyer Saint Camille in Porte au Prince remains open and operational Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Father Robert Daudier, Director of the Hospital, reports on the recent initiatives of the Foyer Saint Camille Hospital in Port au Prince. It recently celebrated the International Day of C ...
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  15 December 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christmas, a time to listen, dialogue, walk together, pray with "Simbang Gabi" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - At Christmas "God walks with us" with his people and the Feast of the Incarnation is a "promemoria for synodality" and reminds "God's presence with us and his journey with us". This was emphasize ...
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  14 December 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Hackers put ‘evidence’ on Indian Jesuit Stan Swamy’s computer New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - An American digital forensics firm released a report, which shows that a hacker planted multiple “incriminating documents” in the computer of activist-priest Father Stan Swamy’s computer ...
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  14 December 2022
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - If we want a serious government and state, our vote must be serious Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - On April 30, 2023, general elections will be held in Paraguay to elect the President of the Republic, who is also Head of Government. The centre-left opposition, which has formed the "Concertac ...
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  14 December 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic bishops set up new legal Offices Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On December 13th, 2022, the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land (ACOHL) organized a conference for the launching of two new offices: the Safeguarding Office & the Professional ...
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  14 December 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Hundreds of dead, wounded and missing, serious damage to buildings: floods in the capital of the country that is preparing to welcome the Pope Kisantu (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-four neighborhoods of Kinshasa, where some 12 million people live out of a total population of more than 17 million, have suffered serious damage due to the movements of earth caused by t ...
• 14 December 2022
  AFRICA/MALI - Appointment of the Bishop of Sikasso Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Sikasso (Mali) Msgr. Robert Cissé, of the clergy of the same diocese, currently ad interim Rector of St. Augustine’s Major Seminary ...
• 14 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Erection of the Diocese of Wukari and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has established the new diocese of Wukari (Nigeria), with territory separated from the diocese of Jalingo, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan See of Jos. The ...
• 14 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Six months after the massacre of the Saint-François-Xavier church in Owo, questions are being asked about who committed it Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - More than six months after the June 5 massacre at St. Francis Xavier Church in Owo, Ondo State (see Fides, 6/6/2022), Nigerians are waiting for the holding a trial against those arrested for their ...
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  13 December 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Caritas Vietnam: “Charity is our mission” Hai Phong (Agenzia Fides) - In the parish of Phú Xuân, in Ho Chi Minh city, Father Dominic Ngô Quang Tuyên has always been committed to evangelization and charity. He sought gestures of concrete closeness and help to ...