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• 12 December 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - War and drugs: Myanmar remains the world's leading opium producer Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar is once again the world leader among opium producing countries, a consequence of the economic crisis following the military coup of February 1, 2021. This is what the United Nations Offi ...
• 12 December 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - More than 87,000 displaced after volcanic eruption on the Island of Negros San Carlos City (Agenzia Fides) - More than 87,000 people in the central Philippines were forced to leave their homes following the eruption of Mount Kanlaon, located on the island of Negros, in the central Philippines. ...
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  12 December 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Talking about Jesus and spreading His gospel: the first digital magazine in the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia released Awali (Agenzia Fides) - On 10th of December 2024, Avona celebrated the third anniversary of the dedication of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia (see Fides, 10/12/2021). On this occasion the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
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  12 December 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Sign of the Risen Lord and home for all: 25 years since the reopening of the Catholic Cathedral in Moscow by Chiara Dommarco Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday evening, December 11, the Catholic Church in Moscow celebrated the 25th anniversary of the reopening of the current Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. "In ...
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  11 December 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: "Hope is the most beautiful gift that the Church can give to all of humanity" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Spirit is the ever-gushing source of Christian hope ". And "if the Church is a boat, the Holy Spirit is the sail that propels it and lets it advance on the sea of history, today a ...
• 11 December 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Ongoing protests against election results have significant impacts on the economy Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Protests continue in Mozambique against the results of the presidential and parliamentary elections of October 9, won by FRELIMO (Mozambican Liberation Front, which has ruled continuously since t ...
• 11 December 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - A symposium 25 years after “Ecclesia in Asia”, for a synodal and missionary Church Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "Twenty-five years after the publication of the post-synodal apostolic exhortation 'Ecclesia in Asia', we want to deepen, reread and revisit this document in the light of today's changed socia ...
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  11 December 2024
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Parish worker shot dead on his way to Mass Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of December 8, in the Penha district, in the north of Rio de Janeiro, 43-year-old architect Steve Maguerith Chaves do Nascimento was shot in the head while he was parking h ...
• 11 December 2024
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - By the end of the year, religious sisters must also leave the Country Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "You have until December to leave the country," was the warning to all religious sisters in Nicaragua, who will be forced to seek refuge in countries, mainly in Latin America, where their respec ...
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  10 December 2024
  ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo, new meeting between Christian representatives and Islamist groups. Bishop Audo: "they show respect for our traditions" by Gianni Valente Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, December 9, the leaders of all the Churches and ecclesial communities present in Aleppo met for the second time with representatives of the armed groups that have ...
• 10 December 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop Doeme Dashe: "Maiduguri is more peaceful today thanks to Mary’s protection" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Our Mother Mary promises to protect her children and we have seen this come true in the diocese of Maiduguri," said the Bishop of Maiduguri, Oliver Doeme Dashe, on the anniversary of the consecra ...
• 10 December 2024
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Resignation of bishop of Bata Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Bata, Equatorial Guinea, presented by Bishop Juan Matogo Oyana, C.M.F. (Agenzia Fides, 10/12/2024) ...
• 10 December 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - President Yoon expelled "de facto" from his party Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The People Power Party (PPP), the ruling party of Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, is discussing internally the possibility of Yoon's resignation next February, in the face of popular reactions and ...
• 10 December 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - Bishops: "Democracy is a gift that we must respect and preserve" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Democracy in our country is a gift and we must continue to respect and preserve," write the Bishops of Ghana after the announcement of the official results of the presidential and parliamentary e ...
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  9 December 2024
  ASIA/SYRIA - After Assad's escape, Bishops and Patriarchs ask for prayers for a peaceful phase of transition Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Prayers and requests for "this phase of transition in Syria may be safe and peaceful" were the requests made by Syrian Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joussif III Younan during the Mass he presided o ...