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  17 November 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Caritas launches a project to combat addictions Astana (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Kazakhstan takes its first steps in a project linked to the world of drug addiction. This is what we read in a note sent to Agenzia Fides, which specifies how, following a recent meeting ...
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  17 November 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Massacre in Alindao: "The Blue Helmets did not defend the population" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "From what I have been told by my contacts, the Blue Helmets of MINUSCA did not defend the population from the rebels who committed the assault in Alindao. At the arrival of the guerrillas they w ...
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  16 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to novices and seminarians of Lubango: "become men and women of God" Lubango (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of Thursday 15 November, during his pastoral visit in Angola for the 50th anniversary of the Episcopal Conference (see Fides, 9/11/2018), Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the ...
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  16 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: "The collaboration of the laity with their Priests helps to make the Church alive in Angola" Lubango (Agenzia Fides) - After the courtesy visit to the Governor, on the morning of Thursday 15 November, Cardinal Fernando Filoni met the members of lay movements and associations in the parish of Lage in Lubango, dur ...
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  16 November 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Hundreds of houses illegally taken away from Christians in the Nineveh province Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - There are at least 350 homes belonging to Christians which in recent years have been illegally taken away from their legitimate owners, taking advantage of their absence and through the creation o ...
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  16 November 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Youth and peace, pastoral challenges: meeting between Bishops of Korea and Japan Uijeongbu (Agenzia Fides) - There was talk of young people, of peace, of the proclamation of the Gospel in the 24th meeting between the Bishops of Korea and Japan held this year in the diocese of Uijeongbu, in South Kore ...
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  16 November 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The first Kenyan to become a Jesuit has been killed; "A great teacher and an example for all of us" says Fr. Sosa Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The first Jesuit of Kenyan nationality was killed in South Sudan. Victor Luke Odhiambo was shot and killed on the night of November 14 by a group of armed men who attacked the Jesuit community of C ...
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  16 November 2018
  AFRICA/MALI - Guaranteeing the right to childhood: commitment of Salesian religious in local communities Touba (Agenzia Fides) - Over 850 thousand children under the age of five are at risk of acute malnutrition in Mali, more than one million children do not attend primary school and one million do not have access to second ...
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  16 November 2018
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - It is not a crime to seek asylum: the caravan of migrants arrives at the border Austin (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not a crime to seek asylum: we urge the Administration to look for other solutions that reinforce the integrity of the immigration system existing in the United States". This is what Mgr. ...
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  15 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the formators of Luanda: "Mission is the goal and the horizon of formation" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Gratitude for the valuable contribution to the formation of priests, men and women religious of the country, together with the assurance that the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples "a ...
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  15 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni exhorts the seminarians: "Become authentic missionary disciples of Christ and of the joy of the Gospel" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "With you and with this Church, I want to praise and thank the Lord for the gift of many vocations that the Lord does not cease to awaken in this young Angolan Church. While I admire and thank Go ...
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  15 November 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The commitment of Caritas: Promoting peace, harmony, human rights Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "It is urgent to promote inter-religious peace and harmony in the country. Radical groups are well organized and it is our duty to make more efforts to build peace and promote human rights": say ...
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  15 November 2018
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Strike in the health sector: a constructive dialogue is urgently needed Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - There is chaos in the Ivorian health sector: a protest by health workers has been under way since Monday, November 5. Nurses, midwives, medical technicians, health administrators, carers, are on ...
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  15 November 2018
  EUROPE/ITALY - The President of the PMS: the extraordinary missionary Month of October 2019, an extraordinary occasion to renew the proclamation of the Gospel Rome (Agenzia Fides) "The extraordinary missionary Month of October 2019 is an extraordinary occasion for the Church to renew the missionary zeal, which is also the great purpose of the Pontifical Mission Societies. The ...
• 15 November 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Kisumu and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Kisumu (Kenya), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Zacchaeus Okoth. The Holy Father has appointed His Exc. ...