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  11 January 2022
  AMERICA/CUBA - Jubilee celebrations in the communities for the 25th anniversary of the diocese of Ciego de Ávila Ciego de Ávila (Agenzia Fides) - To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the diocese of Ciego de Ávila, erected on February 2, 1996, it was decided that the various pastoral areas together with the communities, celebrate ...
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  11 January 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Law on the personal status of Egyptian Christians is about to be passed Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The new law on the personal status of Egyptian Christians, which also contains provisions on sensitive family law issues and which the Coptic Orthodox Church and other churches and ecclesial commu ...
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  10 January 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Bishop dell’Oro thanks for the words of the Pope during the Angelus prayer: "We join the prayer" Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank the Pope for praying for the Kazakh people at such a difficult time. We too join this prayer: This morning Auxiliary Bishop Evgenij Zinkowski, Sister Alma Dzamova and I celebrated a ...
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  10 January 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Pastoral agents at the service of the mission: the formation carried out in the diocese of Chillán concludes Chillán (Agenzia Fides) - "We wanted to provide all lay pastoral workers with elements in their formation that would allow them to serve the mission of a church that goes forth, because what we need most at this time is ...
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  10 January 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian victims of blasphemy: a Pastor sentenced to death, a layman released on bail Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A district court in Rawalpindi has sentenced a Protestant pastor, Zafar Bhatti, 58, to death for blasphemy, in prison since 2012. The Christian leader was accused of sending blasphemous SMS text ...
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  10 January 2022
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Election year 2023: On the sidelines of the election campaign, missionaries work in silence Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "In the new year, politicians expect to win the next elections, but the poor of Foya are waiting for better living conditions", writes to Fides Fr. Lorenzo Snider, a missionary in the small town in ...
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  10 January 2022
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Increasing violence and conflict in the department of Solola, the Bishops call for dialogue and prayer Guatemala de la Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Guatemala express their "enormous concern" for the spread of violence that has caused numerous victims, including children, women and innocent people "who sought ...
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  10 January 2022
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The celebrations for the 175 years of mission in Senegal of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Castres have started Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Towards the horizon of 175 years of missionary presence in Senegal, we rejoice in our rich mosaic of yesterday and today". This is the theme of the celebrations for the 175th anniversary of the p ...
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  10 January 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros: “Exclusive priesthood for men is based on the desire of Christ” Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The priesthood in the Church is reserved for men only, according to the will of Christ himself, who, during his public life, as highlighted in the Gospels, chose his apostles from among men, while ...
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  7 January 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The parish of St. Michael in Myitkyina entrusted to the Salesians Myitkyina (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesians in Myanmar have resumed pastoral service in the new parish of St. Michael, in Myo Thit Kyi district, in the diocese of Myitkyina, in Kachin state, in the north of the country. Ca ...
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  7 January 2022
  VATICAN - The Pope's Message for World Mission Day October 23, 2022 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, January 6, the Message of the Holy Father Francis for World Mission Sunday, which will be celebrated on Sunday, October 23, 2022, on the theme ...
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  7 January 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Caritas Bolivia will continue to help migrants at the borders with Peru, Chile and Argentina in 2022 La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Bolivia has renewed its commitment to work for migrants in 2022 by signing new Agreements with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and with the International Organiz ...
• 7 January 2022
  AFRICA/GABON - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Makokou and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 6, 2022, the Holy Father, accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Makokou (Gabon), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Koerber, C.S.Sp .. The ...
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  7 January 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Tomorrow the light": a blind girl from a Catholic school in Gaya in the story of a missionary Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "I had to leave the city of Gaya and now I am in Dosso, about 140 km, from where I cannot move, for safety reasons", writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Rafael Marco Casamayor, religious of the Society of ...
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  7 January 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The protest is a real political crisis that "could lead to a campaign against the West" Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - This is not a simple street protest against the expensive bills: the revolt that has been inflaming Kazakhstan since January 5 is a real political crisis that affects above all the new upper midd ...