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  19 January 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Controversial trials over the effects of the truce in Tigray, while the conflict in Oromia reopens Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "We pray that the peace agreement is successful. It is not over yet, many of our faithful and our parishes are still besieged by foreign forces", writes Tesfaselassie Medhin, Bishop of the Catho ...
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  19 January 2023
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - School reform: Bishops express concern La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB) expresses concern about the content of the school reform and considers that it "seriously undermines the objectives, results and efforts of the last two sch ...
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  19 January 2023
  ASIATHAILAND - New training center for catechists of the Hmong ethnic group Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - A new training center dedicated to Hmong catechists, called the "International Hmong Center", intended to serve the Catholic population of the Hmong ethnic group, was inaugurated in Chiang Ma ...
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  18 January 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: intimacy with Jesus, the Good Shepherd, is the "soul" of every apostolic work Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Jesus, the Good Shepherd, "does not remain contemplating the sheep pen, nor does he threaten them so they won’t leave". If one of the sheep of his flock goes away and gets lost, he "does not aban ...
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  18 January 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The army destroys a Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Mandalay; the Chapel of Adoration remains standing Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese army set fire to the ancient Church of the Assumption, built in 1894 in Chan Thar, a village inhabited by Catholics in the region of Sagaing, in the territory of the Archdiocese of ...
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  18 January 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "A new chapter of hope and inspiration" for God's people in the country Torit (Agenzia Fides) - The next ecumenical visit scheduled for early February in South Sudan, which will see Pope Francis accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the moderator of the Church of Sco ...
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  18 January 2023
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Referendum on the reform of justice, the Catholic Church also adheres La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - From January 25, Bolivian citizens will be able to participate in the collection of signatures for a referendum on judicial reform. The initiative of a group of independent jurists is joined by t ...
• 18 January 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Michael Olubunimi Olofinlade, the Nigerian priest kidnapped on Saturday, January 14, has been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Michael Olubunimi Olofinlade, a Nigerian priest kidnapped on Saturday January 14 by unidentified gunmen in the state of Ekiti, in southwestern Nigeria, is free (see Fides, 16/1/2023). Fath ...
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  18 January 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Love for the environment and witness in the midst of earthquakes: the life of Camillian seminarians with the parishioners of Maumere Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - In recent hours, the American Institute of Geophysics USGS reported a violent tremor of magnitude 7.0 that hit the eastern part of the archipelago, near the Moluccas Islands. No damage was repor ...
• 17 January 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Eastern DRC: not only jihadists but a complex network of local and foreign interests Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are amazed to see the arrival of the EACRF military, considered as a foreign army on Congolese soil against the will of the citizens, and embarrassed by the paradoxical support of the Ugand ...
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  17 January 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Over 50 dead in riots: “We must not lose hope” Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Following the continued popular protests, the Peruvian Government has declared a state of emergency for 30 days from January 15th in the departments of Cusco, Lima and Puno, in the province of Call ...
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  17 January 2023
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Bishops of North Africa meet in Marseille: "Mediterranean as a place of dialogue" Marseille (Agenzia Fides) - "At the heart of our meeting was the approach of looking at our reality through the lens of our belonging to the Mediterranean region, where three continents meet", declared the members of the ...
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  17 January 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - New Evangelization: Mission stations in shopping malls and slums by Paolo Affatato Kalookan (Agenzia Fides) - In the diocese of Kalookan there are 32 parishes and 17 municipal missions. The diocese includes the southern part of the city of Caloocan and the cities of Malabon and Navot ...
• 16 January 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest burned alive. "They came to kill", says the auxiliary bishop of Minna to Fides Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "They have come to kill. If their purpose was robbery or kidnapping, they would have acted differently", says Msgr. Luka Sylvester Gopep, Auxiliary Bishop of Minna, the diocese where the robbery i ...
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  16 January 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - General Assembly of the Scalabrini Missionary Sisters: In times of global crisis, the phenomenon of migration remains a priority Caxias do Sul (Agenzia Fides) - Three months after the canonization of their founder, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, the Scalabrini Missionary Sisters begin their tenth General Assembly, which opened today, January 16, an ...