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  15 December 2022
  AMERICA/HAITI - Foyer Saint Camille in Porte au Prince remains open and operational Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Father Robert Daudier, Director of the Hospital, reports on the recent initiatives of the Foyer Saint Camille Hospital in Port au Prince. It recently celebrated the International Day of C ...
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  15 December 2022
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Campaign to fight drugs: substance abuse as early as the age of 12 Kassala (Agenzia Fides) - An unprecedented increase in crime related to drug addiction in the Kassala region has been denounced by the Head of the Department of the National Campaign against Drugs (NCCD). The phenomenon ...
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  15 December 2022
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “Christmas is often no longer called by its name” Santiago de los Caballeros (Agenzia Fides) - In his Christmas message, the President of the Bishops' Conference of the Dominican Republic, Archbishop Freddy Breton of Santiago de los Caballeros, laments that “Christmas ...
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  14 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Six months after the massacre of the Saint-François-Xavier church in Owo, questions are being asked about who committed it Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - More than six months after the June 5 massacre at St. Francis Xavier Church in Owo, Ondo State (see Fides, 6/6/2022), Nigerians are waiting for the holding a trial against those arrested for their ...
• 14 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Erection of the Diocese of Wukari and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has established the new diocese of Wukari (Nigeria), with territory separated from the diocese of Jalingo, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan See of Jos. The ...
• 14 December 2022
  AFRICA/MALI - Appointment of the Bishop of Sikasso Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Sikasso (Mali) Msgr. Robert Cissé, of the clergy of the same diocese, currently ad interim Rector of St. Augustine’s Major Seminary ...
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  14 December 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Hundreds of dead, wounded and missing, serious damage to buildings: floods in the capital of the country that is preparing to welcome the Pope Kisantu (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-four neighborhoods of Kinshasa, where some 12 million people live out of a total population of more than 17 million, have suffered serious damage due to the movements of earth caused by t ...
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  14 December 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic bishops set up new legal Offices Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On December 13th, 2022, the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land (ACOHL) organized a conference for the launching of two new offices: the Safeguarding Office & the Professional ...
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  14 December 2022
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - If we want a serious government and state, our vote must be serious Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - On April 30, 2023, general elections will be held in Paraguay to elect the President of the Republic, who is also Head of Government. The centre-left opposition, which has formed the "Concertac ...
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  14 December 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Hackers put ‘evidence’ on Indian Jesuit Stan Swamy’s computer New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - An American digital forensics firm released a report, which shows that a hacker planted multiple “incriminating documents” in the computer of activist-priest Father Stan Swamy’s computer ...
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  13 December 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: three days of "special fast" before Christmas, to ask for the gift of peace Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of the third week of Advent, the Chaldean Patriarchate invites all baptized Chaldeans around the world in the days leading up to Christmas to a three-day fast for peace in Iraq ...
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  13 December 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Cardinal Parolin on Ukraine war: “We cannot imagine the future based on old patterns and military alliances” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of the war in Ukraine, "we cannot but ask ourselves whether we are doing everything, everything possible to put an end to this tragedy", said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of Stat ...
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  13 December 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Overcoming Ethnic Conflicts: Education as an Instrument of Peace Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "We firmly believe in education as an instrument of peace. Even in South Sudan, to manage the transition from arms to dialogue, it is necessary to invest in schools, which is essential fo ...
• 13 December 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Beira Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. António Manuel Bogaio Constantino, M.C.C.J., until now provincial superior of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus and chair of the ...
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  13 December 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops after protests: 'We must calm tempers to protect our weak democracy' Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian "Defensoria del Pueblo" has reported that during the weekend demonstrations took place in several cities of the country to demand the closure of Parliament, the resignation of the new ...