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• 15 January 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Completely destroyed the Nangololo mission, occupied by the insurgents in October Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Everything has been destroyed ...", said the Brazilian missionary Father Edegard Silva, about the damage in the Nangololo Mission in the Muidumbe district in the Cabo Delgado province in norther ...
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  15 January 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - The statue of the Virgin Mary placed on the tower of the Catholic Church in Qaraqosh Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) - When Pope Francis visits the city of Qaraqosh as part of his visit to Iraq, he will also see the large statue of Mary on the bell tower of the church in the sanctuary "al Tahira" . From the tow ...
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  14 January 2021
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Missionaries help with registration at the residents' registration office Kikolo (Agenzia Fides) - "An identity card is precious, because without it one does not exist for the state and society", says in a letter to Fides Father Renzo Adorni, priest of the Society for African Missions, who liv ...
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  14 January 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops disagree over the decision to return Cuba to the list of “sponsors of terrorism” Washington (Agenzia Fides) - In response to the announcement by the US State Department to return to designating Cuba as a “sponsor of terrorism”, Mgr David J. Malloy, Bishop of Rockford, president of the Commission ...
• 14 January 2021
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 October 2020, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Louis Koroma, of the diocesan clergy of Makeni as National D ...
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  14 January 2021
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - Pastoral Letter for the new year: "Christ is faithful to his Church and offers great opportunities for grace, in the challenge of the pandemic" Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - "2020 brought with it unprecedented challenges: many people fell ill, others continue to face serious economic difficulties. Our country went through political and social upheavals. For many, th ...
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  14 January 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Prayer for Pope Francis’ visit to be recited on every Sunday Mass Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - From next Sunday, January 17, the Chaldeans are invited to recite together a prayer composed by Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako in order to ask the Almighty Lord to make possible the announced visi ...
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  14 January 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Missionary Childhood Day: "The Church plays the role of mother, father and family for many children in the world" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to make the Spaniards, especially children, aware that we live in a large family and we cannot be indifferent to the needs of others because we are far away", said Fr. José María Calde ...
• 14 January 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Precarious calm in Bangui after the failure of the rebel offensive Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The rebel offensive against the Central African capital Bangui has been repelled (see Fides, 13/1/2021). "The attack was repelled by the UN peacekeepers, together with the Central African armed f ...
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  14 January 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Christians support and promote the anti Covid-19 vaccination campaign Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Indonesia support the national Covid-19 vaccination campaign. After the first injection of the vaccine organized live on TV for the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, the first p ...
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  13 January 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Pandemic exacerbates gender discrimination at work Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - In Thailand, over 47% of the workforce are women, who are, however, often treated unfairly and discriminatively: They are paid less than men and often do the heaviest work under insecure conditi ...
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  13 January 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Position of the Episcopate against a revision of the Constitution during the pandemic Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Several Bishops of the Philippines express strong reservations about the new initiatives to revise the 1987 Constitution during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the Philippine political panorama, in fac ...
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  13 January 2021
  AFRICA/GHANA - St. Martin Deaf Ministry: Missionaries support the deaf Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The "St. Martin Deaf ministry" is the new missionary initiative promoted by the Society for African Missions (SMA) in the archdiocese of Accra, in favor of deaf people. The initiative was presente ...
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  13 January 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - At the end of the general assembly: Bishops comment on the "State of the Country" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Bishops' Conference published at the end of its plenary assembly (see Fides, 7 and 11/01/2021) a message on the “State of the Country”. "The world is experiencing moments of t ...
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  13 January 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Consolata Missionaries have transferred the Continental Novitiate to the Amazon Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - In line with the reflections of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon and in view of the process of restructuring its own presence in America, the Institute of Consolata Missionaries (IMC) has deci ...