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  11 December 2020
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - The hermit who evangelized America: Ramón Pané Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - In April 1493, Christopher Columbus returned from his first trip to America and met the Spanish Royal family in the Cenobio de La Murtra (Badalona), which was entrusted to the friars of St ...
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  11 December 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic Arzoo Raja's kidnapper accused of rape; the lawyers ask the court to add other charges Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The legal battle over the case of Arzoo Raja, the young Catholic kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and forced into an Islamic marriage last October before being released by the police and w ...
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  11 December 2020
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdallah once again claims the protection of the Christian Holy Places of Jerusalem Amman (Agenzia Fides) - For the Jordanian royal family, the Hashemite Custodianship of Jerusalem’s Islamic and Christian holy sites "is a duty, a commitment, a firm belief, and a responsibility we have proudly undertak ...
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  10 December 2020
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Video message from Mgr. Alain de Raemy: "Life continues and the Star Singers accompany it with love" Friborg (Agenzia Fides) - The Auxiliary Bishop of Friborg, Mgr. Alain de Raemy, responsible for the youth ministry within the Swiss Bishops' Conference, sent a video message to the Star Singers, to encourage the children ...
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  10 December 2020
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Apostolic Exhortation Christus Vivit for young people in southern Africa Harare (Agenzia Fides) - How can the Apostolic Exhortation Christus Vivit be made known to the young people of southern Africa? This is what youth chaplains and leaders from the IMBISA Region (Inter-Regional Meeting of t ...
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  10 December 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - On Human Rights Day, President Widodo raises the issue of freedom of worship Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - There are still many problems related to human rights in Indonesia, one of them is the issue of freedom of religion. All the social forces of the nation have the task of jointly addressing the i ...
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  10 December 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - A reserve fund for Caritas to support vulnerable people Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Following tradition in Ivory Coast, every year, on the third Sunday of Advent, the local Church dedicates particular attention to its social branch, Caritas, through the National Day of Caritas, ...
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  10 December 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - At least 25 Salesian missionaries trapped in the war in the Tigray Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-five Salesian missionaries are blocked without communications in the Tigray region - in the north of Ethiopia, at the center of the clash between regular soldiers and the militias of ...
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  10 December 2020
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The United States extends TPS until October: aid for reconstruction after pandemic and hurricanes Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, announced on Monday 7 December that the Temporary Protected Status, known as TPS will be extended to Honduran citizens present in the Unit ...
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  10 December 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - The analysis of a Jesuit:"A negative year for human rights in India" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The year 2020, marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, was a particularly bad year for human rights in India: in a systematic and brutal way, the legitimate rights of the people were repressed and d ...
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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 ...