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  10 December 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako to Iraqi Christians: may the Pope's visit be for us a "return to the sources" of our missionary vocation Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The announced apostolic visit of Pope Francis to Iraq will be a providential occasion for Iraqi Christians and the entire Middle East to make a "pilgrimage" of conversion and a "return to our or ...
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  9 December 2020
  EUROPE/POLAND - In prayer at the Shrine of Czestochowa for all the missionaries of the world Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - Every year, the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) in Poland organizes a national meeting of formation and missionary prayer at the Shrine of Czestochowa at the beginning of December in memor ...
• 9 December 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and succession of metropolitan archbishop of Patna, India Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Patna, India, presented by Archbishop William D’Souza, S.J. He is succeeded by Arch ...
• 9 December 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of auxiliary of Minna, Nigeria Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Minna, Nigeria, the Reverend Luka Sylvester Gopep, of the same diocese, unti now vicar general of Minna and parish priest ...
• 9 December 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Resignation and appointment of apostolic administrator of Atyrau Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 8 December 2020, the Holy Father accepted the resignation presented by the Reverend Dariusz Buras, apostolic administrator of Atyrau in Kazakhstan, and appointed to the office of apostol ...
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  9 December 2020
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops "welcome the reinstatement of the DACA program" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - On December 4, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to reinstate the entire Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (kn ...
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  9 December 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The alarm of the African Bishops: "Stop the war in Tigray. We are concerned about the humanitarian situation" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "We have followed with deep concern the deteriorating situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia", says Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba on behalf of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of ...
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  9 December 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal to the Prime Minister: protection of religious minorities from forced conversions Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The phenomenon of the current forced conversions threatens religious freedom, freedom of conscience and religious pluralism in Pakistan. There are hundreds of cases of forced conversions of Hind ...
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  9 December 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Human Rights Day: "Protection of minority rights is crucial for the future of the country" Lahore (Agenzia Fide) - "To curb the criminal acts which are often covered by questions of faith and to protect religious minorities from the recurrent violations of fundamental rights taking place in Pakistan": this is ...
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  9 December 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Thanks to the donation of Pope Francis, 2 health centers will be built for the displaced people of Cabo Delgado Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to the donation from Pope Francis to the diocese of Pemba, the capital of the province of Cabo Delgado in northern Mozambique, which has been suffering from the consequences of a separatis ...
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  9 December 2020
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - Political crisis after the end of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh: Patriarch Karekin calls for the government to resign Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the government he led must resign if we want to "avoid traumatic developments in public life and possible conflicts with tragic consequences", sai ...
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  9 December 2020
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Personal visits by priests to families in times of pandemic and without the Internet Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - "We are not living the time of Advent as usual and we will not be able to celebrate Christmas like other years: indeed, since April 23 until a date to be decided, churches, mosques and other pl ...
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  7 December 2020
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Elections: the Bishops praise the civic spirit of Puerto Ricans, the authorities need to listen to the request for change San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - While the eyes of the world were on the elections in the United States on November 3rd, the same day the citizens of Puerto Rico also elected the governor, mayors and MPs for the next four year ...
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  7 December 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Sixteen Christian families, expelled for religious reasons, return to their homes thanks to a court order Raipur (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 16 Christian families, who were forced to leave their homes last September on grounds of religious discrimination, have returned to their homes in Kondagaon district in the Indian stat ...
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  7 December 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - On the 40th anniversary: CELAM commemorates the “selfless” service of the missionaries who died as martyrs in El Salvador Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Latin American Bishops' Council (Celam), Archbishop of Trujillo, Mgr Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, expressed his solidarity with the Church in El Salvador on the 40th anniversary ...