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  19 February 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - The United Arab Emirates (with UNESCO patronage) finance the reconstruction of the church of St Thomas in Mosul Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The works of reconstruction and restoration of the church of St Thomas in Mosul will begin by April, devastated - but not completely destroyed - in the time when the Iraqi metropolis was under the ...
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  19 February 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Fr. Oboh, Nigerian priest kidnapped last week, has been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Nicholas Oboh, Nigerian priest kidnapped last week in the south-western region of Nigeria, was released yesterday evening, February 18 (see Fides, 15/2/2020). "I am pleased to inform you that ...
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  19 February 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Dengue spreads: the Church urges the population to collaborate to limit its spread Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - In Bolivia the population is on high alert for the spread of the dengue virus which is recording very high peaks of infection. "The Lord asks us to be co-responsible in implementing the preve ...
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  19 February 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A missionary connotation to National Youth Day Maracaibo (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the various initiatives planned for National Youth Day (JNJ), which is celebrated in Venezuela on the Sunday closest to February 12, youth missionary groups from the parishes of the ...
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  18 February 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Evangelization through calligraphy Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Art and calligraphy can be a means of evangelization in Pakistan: Father Arthur Charles is convinced of this to the point that he has started placing banners with verses from the Bible, in beaut ...
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  18 February 2020
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Jubilee Year: "time to relaunch the commitment and hope that comes from the social dimension of Christian life" Limon (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to the authorities and the protagonists of society to unite "to find solutions to the suffering of many Costa Ricans, in particular in the fields of work, health, violence, especially ag ...
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  18 February 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - The innocent seven of Kandhamal, witnesses of faith Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - They spoke of their experience and witnessed their faith in Christ before the Indian Bishops: the seven innocent men - involved in the story of the anti-Christian massacres that took place in ...
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  18 February 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Security of life and property can no longer be guaranteed in Nigeria" denounces the Bishop of Awka Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Human beings are being slaughtered regularly by terrorists who are suspected to have targeted the Christians. Security of life and property can no longer be guaranteed in Nigeria", said His Exc. ...
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  18 February 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Church of Congo in the hurricane of History Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Among the results produced by the three peaceful marches organized by the Lay Coordination Committee (CLC), from December 2017 to February 2018, "it seems to me that the most lasting and useful ...
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  18 February 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Stop stealing in the north": Salta area plundered of wealth and the inhabitants abandoned in misery Salta (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop stealing in the north" was the heartfelt request expressed by the rector of the Virgen de la Peña shrine, Father Fray Rubén Sica, OFM, in his homily last Sunday, February 16, referring to ...
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  17 February 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - From the sanctuary of Guadalupe, Archbishop Dal Toso starts the preparation for the continental missionary event, CAM 6 Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - With the solemn Mass presided yesterday in the Shrine of Santa Maria di Guadalupe, so important for the evangelization of the entire American continent, Archbishop Giampietro Dal Toso, Presi ...
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  17 February 2020
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "Ballot boxes almost completely deserted by voters", report observers of "Justice and Peace" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - Peaceful elections but almost entirely deserted by voters. This is what His Exc. Mgr. Abraham Kome, Bishop of Bafang, Apostolic Administrator of Bafia and President of the National Episcopal Co ...
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  17 February 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - The Apostolic Nuncio: "To announce the Gospel of mercy in daily life" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The first mission of Bishops and faithful in India is "to announce and live the Gospel in situations of daily life": said Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal ...
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  17 February 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - At least 24 dead in the attack against an evangelical church Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Unidentified armed individuals attacked the Evangelical church in the village of Pansi, located not far from Sebba, in the province of Yahgha, in northern Burkina Faso, yesterday, Sunday 16 ...
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  17 February 2020
  VATICAN - The Pope asks for a year of missionary commitment to the priests candidates for the diplomatic service of the Holy See Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has asked to integrate a year of missionary commitment in a diocese of particular Churches in the training curriculums of the priests candidates for the diplomatic s ...