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"There is an ongoing forgotten massacre on the Nuba Mountains " complaint on behalf of the Bishop of El Obeid; priests and religious sisters are not abandoning the camp

AFRICA/SUDAN

Winds of war between Sudan and South Sudan

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AFRICA/SUDAN - "There is an ongoing forgotten massacre on the Nuba Mountains " complaint on behalf of the Bishop of El Obeid; priests and religious sisters are not abandoning the camp

VATICAN - The story of Jesus of Nazareth, in whose name even today many believers face suffering and persecution, cannot remain confined in a distant past

ASIA/HONG KONG - Mgr. Tong to the religious: "Everyone has his/her own charisma, but we are all instrument of evangelization"

EUROPE/ITALY - Carrying out missionary animation in the heart of a metropolis: 50 years of the PIME centre in Milan

AFRICA - On February 13 the Second Symposium of the European and African Bishops opens in Rome

AMERICA/VENEZUELA - For Cardinal Urosa Savino every presidential candidate must possess the values of love, justice and freedom

CEP APPOINTMENTS - AFRICA/CONGO DR - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies

ASIA/TAIWAN - The Church of Taiwan is preparing for the International Eucharistic Congress

EUROPE/SPAIN - Year of Faith, the year of the missionaries who proclaim it

ASIA/INDONESIA - A Muslim Study Centre: "To save the churches from radical Islamic groups is possible"

AFRICA/SUDAN - Winds of war between Sudan and South Sudan

ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic Fundamentalists re-launch the new anti-blasphemy "Facebook"

AMERICA/BRAZIL - Police in Bahia still on strike while crime rages, now the Church mediates

AFRICA/CONGO DR - Cholera runs along the river Congo: alert

AMERICA/ECUADOR - 25 years later, a blog remembers Mgr. Alejandro Labaka and Sister Ines Arango

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ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE

AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Apostolic Vicar of Kontagora

AFRICA/CONGO DR - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishops in Kinshasa

AFRICA/RWANDA - Appointment of the Bishop of Ruhengeri

ASIA/PAKISTAN - Resignation of the Archbishop of Karachi and appointment of Successor

AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of the Bishop of Ziguinchor