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  30 December 2023
  "You do not go to Heaven alone." The life of self-sacrifice of witnesses to the faith, for the salvation of all by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the year that is about to end, at least twenty Catholic missionaries, and pastoral care workers were killed. And also at the end of this year, like every year, Agenzia Fid ...
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  30 December 2023
  VATICAN - Missionaries and pastoral care workers killed in 2023 Dossier edited by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, 20 missionaries were killed in the world in 2023: 1 Bishop, 8 priests, 2 non-religious men, 1 semi ...
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  29 December 2023
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Star Singers Campaign 2024: "Together for our Earth - in the Amazon and worldwide" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - "Together for our Earth - in the Amazon and worldwide" is the motto of the 66th Star Singers campaign of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood in Germany (Kindermissionswerk/"Die Sternsing ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - From Beijing to Inner Mongolia, a Christmas of faith and charity for Chinese Catholics Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A Christmas of faith and charity was experienced by Catholic communities in all the provinces of the People's Republic of China. During vigils and solemn masses, prayers were said for peace and ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Over twenty thousand participants from different ethnic groups, languages and rites at the Christmas Eve Mass Awali (Agenzia Fides) - "We come to Bethlehem grotto to present our needs and praises. We look for blessing and grace. The new born child will carry us to a radiant life and a new participation in the divine life." This ...
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  28 December 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - The legacy of mother Eliswa, a woman who worked for the emancipation and education of women in India by Sister Roobini Chinnappan Varapuzha (Agenzia Fides) - She was a woman who worked for other women in India, for social emancipation and for the elevation of their status and culture. At the head of a religious cong ...
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  23 December 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Camillian Missionaries await Christmas between pastoral service and visits to the elderly Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in Flores everything happens in a fairly calm climate, there is a Christmas atmosphere with decorations and colorful lights that our Muslim friends also admire and are impressed", writes F ...
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  23 December 2023
  VATICAN - Pius XII, the Korean War, the West and that Christmas of 1951 by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas 1951, like now, the world was at war. At the time it was the Korean War. It began with the invasion of South Korea by the North Korean army (June 25, 1950). An immense ...
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  23 December 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - The readiness of Charity: at Christmas Time, Chinese Catholic communities help earthquake-affected people by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - In the days leading up to the celebration of Holy Christmas, marked in China by the effects of a devastating earthquake, Chinese Catholics promptly put into practice the commandm ...
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  22 December 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christmas Message of the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem: may the light of Jesus overcome the darkness of death that envelops the Holy Land Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the birth of Jesus arrives this year during a new time of calamity "in the land of our Lord’s birth". A time in which the horrors of war sow "inconsolable misery and sorro ...
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  22 December 2023
  AFRICA/BENIN - Christmas is the night of joy and liberation from slavery: missionaries urge the faithful to build the internal nativity scene Calavi (Agenzia Fides) - "Instead of working only on setting up the physical nativity scene, we insisted on building the interior nativity scene, the nativity scene of our hearts". This is what the parish priest of the G ...
• 22 December 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Voting extended for another day due to organizational difficulties Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, December 21, voting ended in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Voting operations that were to take place on December 20 were extended by one more day due to delays and interrupti ...
• 22 December 2023
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Appointment of the new director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 24, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Rev. Michael Cheng Chai Pui of the clergy of Christchurch, as National Direct ...
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  22 December 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christmas for Christians freed from "slave labor" in Punjab Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - It is a Christmas full of praise and thanksgiving to God experienced by Catholic families who, in Pakistani Punjab, were freed from the condition of slavery to which they were forced, working ...
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  22 December 2023
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The Star Singers visit the Federal Palace: Justice, peace and protection of Creation Friborg (Agenzia Fides) - "Our house is not just made of bricks, it is the whole world, we must protect and preserve it for future generations". This is what Elisa says, one of the children who was part of the delegation ...