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  1 December 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Knowledge and prevention, key elements to saving girls from human trafficking Gazipur (Agenzia Fides) - Jaeda Akhter, a thirty-year-old Bangladeshi, wife and mother of a child, who lives with her family in the outskirts of Dhaka, was the victim of an international gang of human traffickers and bro ...
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  1 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - Zankey Handuriya: the children's star, a small light of hope for blind children Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - After a year, Father Rafael Casamayor, together with two of his collaborators, managed to return to Gaya and spend some time with the blind children of the inclusive Catholic school in the city th ...
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  30 November 2022
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The service of Catholic schools in the education system: a contribution to the new generations Kota Kinabalu (Agenzia Fides) - "The way in which teachers continue to transmit knowledge using all means, even the mass media, and the perseverance they show in continuing to serve children in difficult times is admirab ...
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  30 November 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Redemptorists: still "no contact" with the two priests arrested in Berdyansk Berdyansk (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists) continues to have no contact with priests Fr Ivan Levytskyy and Fr Bohdan Heleta, parish priest and vicar at the Greek-Catholic churc ...
• 30 November 2022
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - More and more women in migratory flows: a conference in Ouagadougou Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - More and more women are part of the migratory flows from Africa. This is what emerges from the conference "Women, gender and migration" which is being held in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina ...
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  30 November 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - After the strike: "so many brothers have been injured, a people have been injured, it will take a long time to heal" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - After the approval of the Chamber of Deputies over the weekend, the Bolivian Senate also approved yesterday the law on population and housing census, which must now be promulgated. The census was ...
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  30 November 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Simple gestures of silent and providential charity towards the poor Robe (Agenzia Fides) - Adaba and then Dodola, Kofale, Robe, Addis Ababa, Gode, it is among these missions that Fr. Angelo Antolini, ofm cap., Apostolic Prefect of Robe, spends his journey of evangelization always close ...
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  29 November 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Formation of Catechists, organization of lay people, support for biblical animation: 2022 Evangelization Campaign Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The 2022 Evangelization Campaign, promoted by the Brazilian Episcopal Conference (CNBB) through the dioceses and particular Churches of Brazil, aims to train and update Brazilian catechists, su ...
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  29 November 2022
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Tribal conflicts aggravate the state of emergency Karthoum (Agenzia Fides) - The food crisis that causes deaths from hunger (see Fides 10/10/2022) in large areas of the tormented country is aggravated by continuous episodes of violence, especially in Wad El Mahi in the ...
• 29 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Ochang and members of St. Jude's Society kidnapped on November 24 have been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Peter Abang Ochang and his companions were released on the morning of Saturday, November 26. They are fine", said Fr Peter Abue, Vicar General of the diocese of Ogoja, confirming the relea ...
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  29 November 2022
  AFRICA/BENIN - Prayers and offerings. The exchange of gifts that supports the missionary openness of priestly vocations Klouékanmè (Agenzia Fides) - Contribute to the growth of a vocation, to its development so that the "seed" bears fruit. Many are those who, each year, contribute spiritually and economically, through the Pontifical Soc ...
• 29 November 2022
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Gabriel Rainusso Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 13, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Fr. Gabriel Rainusso, of the diocesan clergy of San José de Mayo as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS ...
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  29 November 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Going out of oneself to meet God and neighbour: the mission of young people, who are not afraid to touch misery, poverty and violence Viet Tri (Agenzia Fides) - The Hung National Temple, located in the city of Viet Tri, in the territory of the diocese of Hung Hoa, is the place where the Hung kings gave life to Vietnam 4000 years ago. This land is respe ...
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  28 November 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Catholic journalists must only give the truth Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Communicators have a powerful and mysterious mission, and Catholic journalists are called to report the facts and try to act as "evangelists of our times", said the Secretary General of the Ugan ...
• 28 November 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A march for peace: two women kidnapped by an armed group in the east of the Country Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Two peace-seeking activists in South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, were abducted by an armed group led by a deserting Congolese army officer (FARDC). Sarah Atosha and ...