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• 11 December 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Appointment of Bishop of Chilaw Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 6, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Arachchige Don Wimal Siri Appuhamy Jayasuriya, of the clergy of the diocese of Chilaw, Sri Lanka, until now parish priest of Saint Mary ...
• 11 December 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Resignation and appointment of Bishop of Tôlagnaro Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 5, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Tôlagnaro, Madagascar, presented by Bishop Vincent Rakotozafy. The Holy Father has appoin ...
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  9 December 2023
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Advent in times of war: Christian communities forego celebrations and lighting Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - For many Christian communities in the countries of the Middle East, the time approaching Christmas is marked by the pain and and fear of the violence that has broken out again in the Holy Land ...
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  9 December 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Advent season of the Chinese Catholic communities in the sign of Saint Francis Xavier Nanjing (Agenzia Fides) - The Chinese Catholic communities celebrated the new ecclesiastical year and the first Sunday of Advent on December 3rd in the spirit of St. Francis Xavier, the day on which the feast of the grea ...
• 7 December 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Agricultural workers from Malawi and Kenya are supposed to work in Israeli fields Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - African agricultural workers are to work in Israeli fields as a replacement for Palestinian and Thai workers. After around 220 agricultural workers were recruited in Malawi in recent weeks, it i ...
• 7 December 2023
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Suspected mastermind of failed coup attempt arrested Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - With the arrest of the former bodyguard of former President Ernest Bai Koroma and two police officers accused of having offered him refuge, the number of people arrested in Sierra Leone for the ...
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  7 December 2023
  VATICAN - The Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle emerged from Jeanne Bigard's prophetic intuition by Elena Grazini Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - She dedicated her life to promoting and accompanying priestly vocations in mission countries. This is the story of Jeanne Bigard (see Fides, 14/4/2021), foundress of the ...
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  7 December 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - The Bishop of Xiamen: together with Mary Immaculate to welcome Jesus and experience the work of the Holy Spirit Xiamen (Agenzia Fides) - "Welcoming Jesus together with Mary" was the theme of the spiritual exercises before the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, attended by around dozens of lay Catholics, mainly active in the apost ...
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  6 December 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: the Church does not proclaim herself and the Holy Spirit is the protagonist of the mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation must take place "in the Holy Spirit", said Pope Francis, who at today's general audience continues the cycle of catechesis dedicated to the joy of the proclamation of the Gospel. A ...
• 6 December 2023
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Venezuela announces the creation of a Military Zone that includes the area of Guyana claimed by Caracas Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, December 5, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro announced the creation of the Global Defense Operational Zone ZODI (a sort of military command region) "Guyana Esequiba", cover ...
• 6 December 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - At least 85 dead in an accidental military attack on Muslim procession Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu describes the attack by the Nigerian armed forces on a procession of Islamic believers celebrating the Mawlid an-Nabi holiday (birthday of the Prophet Mohammed ...
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  5 December 2023
  ASIA/KUWAIT - December 8, 1948 - December 8, 2023: "Diamond Jubilee" of the Church of Our Lady of Arabia Ahmadi (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations of the anniversary of the Church of Our Lady of Arabia will end on Friday, December 8 with the Eucharistic concelebration presided over by Mgr. Aldo Berardi, O.SS.T, Apostolic Vi ...
• 5 December 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The war is becoming more complicated: the United Nations now decides to end the UN mission in Sudan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The war in Sudan between the regular army (SAF) led by General Abdul Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the command of Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, known as Hemeti, now has an e ...
• 4 December 2023
  ASIA/THAILAND - Resignation and appointment of th Bishop of Ubon Ratchathani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, December 2, the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, presented by Bishop Philip Banchong Chaiyara. ...
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  4 December 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Hit right in the heart”: Catholics do not give up on the path of dialogue and hope By Paolo Affatato Marawi (Agenzia Fides) - The pain and shock following the deadly attack will not stop the path of dialogue and building peaceful coexistence in the southern Philippines. The bomb attack in which four ...