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  17 December 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Reaching out to migrants: joint initiative of the frontier dioceses of Brownsville and Matamoros Matamoros (Agenzia Fides) - The Casa del Migrante San Juan Diego and San Francisco, in the city of Matamoros, the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bordering the southern part of the US state of Texas, received three tons of ...
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  17 December 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Maccalli is "a thread that has united us for 15 months: we entrust him to the Lord" Crema (Agenzia Fides) - Fifteen months ago Father Luigi Maccalli, a priest of the Society for African Missions was kidnapped in Niger, in September 2018 (see Fides, 18/9/2018). Many people continue to keep his memory ali ...
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  17 December 2019
  VATICAN - The challenges of mission in Asia: a conference at the Urbaniana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The conference that, on the 20th anniversary of the post-synodal exhortation "Ecclesia in Asia", is to be held at the Pontifical Urbaniana University on 18 and 19 December focuses on the ch ...
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  17 December 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Two important ecclesial meetings in Malawi Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - "The meeting helped us to better plan and prepare for the year of the Bible", said the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Vincent Mwakwawa, at the end of the planning meeting of the biblical yea ...
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  17 December 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - The new law on citizenship to immigrants "is unconstitutional": appeal to "civil disobedience" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The new law on citizenship (Citizenship Amendment Act 2019), approved by Parliament and promulgated on December 12 after the signature of the President of India, is clearly discriminatory, di ...
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  17 December 2019
  ASIA/TURKEY - The new Armenian Patriarch: the issue of the Armenian Genocide exploited for economic-political strategies Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - "It hurts us to see the events that happened to the Armenians 100 years ago on these lands, transformed into instruments of economic, political or strategic pressure by the Parliaments of other ...
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  17 December 2019
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "Life is sacred": Bishops outraged by the rules on the decriminalization of abortion San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Net refusal and indignation" for the signing of the so-called "technical regulation" on the decriminalization of abortion by President Carlos Alvarado Quesada, was expressed by the Episcopal ...
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  16 December 2019
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Prayer and solidarity for the earthquake victims in Mindanao Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A special prayer of the Rosary and a campaign of solidarity for the victims of the 6.9 magnitude earthquake that affected the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines on Sunday, December 15 ...
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  16 December 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Let us pray and fast for peace in Niger" urges the Archbishop of Niamey after the massacre of 70 soldiers Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "After the massacre of over 70 Nigerian soldiers in Inatés on 10 December, near the border with Mali, the government ordered three days of national mourning. On Friday 13 December, the day of pr ...
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  16 December 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Children of today, our guardians of tomorrow Bereina (Agenzia Fides) - "Children, what would you like to do today? It was fun to ask this question to our students of the Jesus Good Shepherd Primary school just after the flag-raising and prayer, to celebrate the rig ...
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  16 December 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops' message: "We look forward to building a united Bolivia, in the God of life, above differences" Tarija (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of their Extraordinary Assembly, held in Tarija on 11 and 12 December, the Bishops of Bolivia sent a message of peace to the Bolivian people for Christmas. The Bishops say they find mo ...
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  16 December 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai on the Lebanese crisis: "politicians have not listened to the voice of God" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "If politicians were truly inspired by the divine will and prayed, Lebanon would not find itself today in a desperate economic and financial situation, with paralyzed institutions. The people wou ...
• 16 December 2019
  AFRICA/CHAD - Appointment of the Bishop of Laï Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 14 December the Holy Father appointed as bishop of the diocese of Laï, Chad, the Reverend Nicolas Nadju Bab, of the clergy of Laï, currently diocesan administrator of the same diocese. ...
• 16 December 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - Resignation of Bishop of Kericho, Kenya, and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kericho, Kenya, presented by Bishop Emmanuel Okombo Wandera, at the same time appointing Bishop Alfred ...
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  14 December 2019
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A missionary: "Seventy years of mission in Sierra Leone are our hard work, but also our joy" Makeni (Agenzia Fides) - This year marks the 70th anniversary of the presence of the Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone (see Fides, 10/12/2019). For the occasion Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, a Xaverian missionary with a long ...