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  3 December 2015
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Campaign in aid of refugees to guarantee shelter, food, clothing, medicines, psychological assistance, education and pastoral care Seville (Agenzia Fides) – According to the United Nations Organisation in the world at present there are some 60 million displaced persons, the largest number of them come from Syria. Many undertake exhausting journeys ...
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  3 December 2015
  ASIA/IRAQ - New appeal from Chaldean Patriarchate about changes in the law regarding Islamization of minors Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – A new letter-appeal has been addressed to representatives of the Iraqi parliament by the Catholic Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon, Louis Raphael I, to convince them to overcome resistance to the ...
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  3 December 2015
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Radio Maria on 8 December will begin broadcasting in Arabic Erba (Agenzia Fides) - Radio Maria, an Italian Catholic radio station established in 1982 at Arcellasco d'Erba (Como) which today broadcasts in more than 50 countries and in as many languages, will begin programmes in Ar ...
• 3 December 2015
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: “many sisters, many priests, many religious devote their entire life to announcing Jesus Christ” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – During the general Wednesday Audience on 2 December, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, spoke about his pastoral visit to Africa, from which he just returned , devoting part of his address to ...
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  3 December 2015
  AMERICA/BRASIL - Mato Grosso Missionary Community offers CIMI solidarity and support Mato Grosso (Agencia Fides) – The Regional Mission Commission (COMIRE) in Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil), held its annual assembly 27 to 29 November in Dourados, and issued a final statement of support and solidarity with ...
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  3 December 2015
  AMERICA/CUBA - local Church concerned about Cuban migrants held up in central America Havana (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Dionisio García, President of the Cuban Catholic Bishops’ Conference, has voiced the concern of the local Church for the situation of thousands of Cubans blocked between Costa Rica an ...
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  3 December 2015
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Celebrating Joy and Mercy Australian Catholic Youth Festival Adelaide (Agencia Fides) – More than three thousand young people from every diocese in Australia have arrived in Adelaide to take part in the Catholic Youth Festival, a three day gathering organised by the local Cathol ...
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  3 December 2015
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cardinal Tagle calls some of the city’s poorest to help him open the Holy Door in Manila Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The Holy Year call to show mercy means each of us must open our eyes and our ears to see the poor and listen to their needs. But this is not enough: we must do something to change our ...
• 3 December 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Much of what Pope Francis said concerns the whole of Africa” Cardinal Napier Archbishop of Durban remarks Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “I am deeply convinced that the Pope’s visit to Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic will impact the whole of Africa” Fides was told by Cardinal Napier Archbishop of Durban presentl ...
• 3 December 2015
  AFRICA/RD CONGO - “We are not agitators, we are shepherds concerned for our country” Bishops affirm Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “No one has the right to demand total silence from anyone expressing an opinion or speaking out in a country which calls itself democratic” the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo a ...
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  2 December 2015
  EUROPE/ITALY - “A Indian tree” World Day for Persons with Disabilities Milan (Agenzia Fides) – Today about 15% of the world population is affected by some sort of disability. One billion according to a 2011 of report. Of these 80% live in developing countries, where basic health care is n ...
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  2 December 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - El Niño impact on cattle could increase food insecurity risk Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Sudan could face an increase in food insecurity and hunger because of the El Niño impact on cattle. Below average rainfall in many of Sudan’s traditionally pluvial areas during the rainy sea ...
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  2 December 2015
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Growing crowds flock to pray Our Lady of Caacupé novena Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Adalberto Martinez Flores, Military Ordinary, celebrated Mass on December 1 , the fourth day of the novena to Our Lady of Miracles at Caacupé, for a large crowd of faithful in the Bas ...
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  2 December 2015
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Drugs, a national tragedy: Bishops’ statement on the necessity to intervene Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Argentina (CEA) has issued a statement with the title "No to drug trafficking, Yes to fullness of life", in which they say that drug addiction and tr ...
• 2 December 2015
  VATICAN - CEP Plenary: what do the young Churches expect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and the PMS? VATICAN – CEP Plenary: what do the young Churches expect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and the PMS? Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – ‘“Services of the Congregation for the Evangelization of ...