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  12 November 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Forced marriages increase the risk of violence and suicide for women Wau (Agenzia Fides) - A young 19-year-old mother is serving a three-month prison sentence in the Wau juvenile detention center, in the western Bahr el Ghazal state of South Sudan, for refusing to marry a man chosen by he ...
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  12 November 2022
  VATICAN - "Euntes in mundum universum": an international conference on the 400 years of Propaganda Fide Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Four centuries of mission, four centuries of proclamation of the Gospel. This is the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, today the Dicastery for Evangelization. A long and intense history, whi ...
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  12 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Minna on upcoming elections: “People want change in Nigeria” Minna (Agenzia Fides) - "Even if the youths and fringe groups do not succeed in putting in power the political leaders of their choices, they have started something – a new movement that will bring about a ‘New’ Ni ...
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  11 November 2022
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - An "informal" school on the outskirts of Luanda in one of the parish chapels Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Education in Angola is of poor quality, it lacks in infrastructure, school materials and trained teachers. While it is compulsory and free for children aged four, for children between the ages of ...
• 11 November 2022
  AFRICA/CONGO - Caritas: More than 2,600 refugees from the DRC are in a precarious situation; the Bishops of the DRC call for a march for peace on December 4 Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) – More than 2,600 refugees in central-eastern Congo-Brazzaville live in precarious conditions. This was stated by Caritas Congo according to which the conditions of the children in particula ...
• 11 November 2022
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of the Bishop of Ambanja, Donatien Francis Randriamalala Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Fr. Donatien Francis Randriamalala, M.S., currently parish priest of Notre Dame de la Salette and Vicar General of the Diocese of Morondava, as Bishop ...
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  11 November 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "let's not stand idly by and look at the problems that concern everyone" Cuautitlan Izcalli (Agenzia Fides) - The "concern for the reality we are experiencing" and, at the same time, "the desire to continue collaborating in the construction of a more just and fraternal country, united and in ...
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  11 November 2022
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Bishop on upcoming election: "Choose on the basis of your conscience" Johor (Agenzia Fides) - "When we elect corrupt politicians we become accomplices. We become accomplices of evil when we pretend to be blind, deaf or dumb in the face of evil. We therefore ask all young people in particul ...
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  10 November 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - Farewell Antioch. Father Bertogli leaves his “Domus Ecclesiae” after 35 years of mission by Gianni Valente Antakya (Agenzia Fides) - For the 86-year-old Italian Capuchin Father Domenico Bertogli, who comes from Modena, the time has come to say goodbye. At the beginning of November he left his parish of St. ...
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  10 November 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The proclamation of the Gospel in Mindanao with the experience of the basic ecclesial communities Cagayan de Oro (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation of the Gospel on the island of Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, goes forward thanks to the experience of the basic ecclesial communities (BEC), in ...
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  10 November 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Conference on Migration and Refuge: Focus on implementation of the new migration regulations Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "One of our goals is to ensure the regular residence of migrants and refugees and to repair the damage caused by the historical delays of recent years. We want to give people information and th ...
• 10 November 2022
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Director of Justice and Peace of Butembo-Beni: "Is the population being massacred to clear out the territory in order to exploit its riches?" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - This massacre reflects what has been happening in our diocese from October 2014 until today: the ADF attack and kill the populations, burning houses, means of transport on the roads and goods", ...
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  10 November 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The forgotten victims of the Tigray war: the fate of 100,000 Eritrean refugees Shire (Agenzia Fides) - In the last two years of the ongoing conflict in the northern region of Ethiopia, very little has been said about Eritreans. While 60,000 Tigrayans have been displaced from their homes to refugee ...
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  9 November 2022
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - In one of the poorest Countries in the world, the parish remains a refuge for all Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In Madagascar we know that we are objectively among the poorest Countries in the world. But there is no war, the worst and most repugnant of the evils that men inflict on their fellow men. And at ...
• 9 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kaduna: Kidnapping of a Catholic priest and 9 other people in a village attacked by bandits Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Abraham Kunat has been kidnapped by armed men in the local government area of Kachia, in the state of Kaduna, in northern Nigeria. The kidnapping took place around midnight yesterday, November ...