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  30 December 2021
  VATICAN - MISSIONARIES KILLED IN THE YEAR 2021 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, in 2021 22 missionaries were killed in the world: 13 priests, 1 religious man, 2 religious women, 6 lay persons. This year the highest ...
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  29 December 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The funeral of Catholic civilians massacred in Kayah Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of the 35 civilians, all Catholics, killed on December 24, in the village of Mo So, near the town of Hpruso, in the Burmese state of Kayah, in eastern Myanmar, took place today in the ...
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  28 December 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Church appeal to lay down their arms after the massacre of civilians in Kayah Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Myanmar issues a general appeal to remove arms and stop a civil conflict that has taken the form of a "heartbreaking and horrible atrocity", as Cardinal Charles Manung Bo d ...
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  28 December 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest killed on Christmas Eve Abeokuta (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Luke Adeleke, 38, recently ordained priest, on August 19, 2017, of the diocese of Abeokuta, capital of the southwestern state of Ogun, was shot dead by gunmen while coming from a mass on ...
• 28 December 2021
  ASIA/JAPAN - Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Nagasaki Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today, the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan, presented by Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, P.S.S. At t ...
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  28 December 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Father Jacques Mourad: the monastery of Mar Elian, devastated by jihadists, could soon return to being a place of prayer and peace Quaryatayn (Agenzia Fides) - The ancient Monastery of Mar Elian, located on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Quaryatayn, which in 2016 had been devastated and desecrated by jihadist militiamen, could soon return to be ...
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  28 December 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Every year there are three hundred and sixty-five pages, on which we are like pencils writing our biography, day by day Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "In this year 2022 we are pencils in the hands of God. He can write straight on the crooked lines of the pandemic, disease and suffering; He can write with our collaboration his words that g ...
• 28 December 2021
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Alger Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 27, 2021 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Alger, Algeria, presented by Archbishop Paul Desfarges, S.J. The Hol ...
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  28 December 2021
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Bishops: "Let us undertake the serious and responsible commitment of the reconstruction our country’s needs" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - In their Christmas message, the Bishops of Honduras asked the People of God and all people of good will to assume "the serious and responsible commitment to the reconstruction of which our c ...
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  28 December 2021
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Missionaries at the service of the "little flock", with great hopes for the new year Samarkand (Agenzia Fides) - "In Uzbekistan the Soviet tradition is still strong, which recognizes the New Year as the most important holiday of this period, but we have tried to convey the importance of Christmas to ever ...
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  28 December 2021
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The work of the White Fathers to stop violence against women, "offering the support of the Gospel" Bakavu (Agenzia Fides) - "In Congolese culture, violence against a woman means violence against one's mother, because it is she who gives life and bring up children. Rapes are planned as a war tactic by people who know t ...
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  23 December 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian girl, kidnapped and converted, reunites with her family Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Arzoo Raja, a 14-year-old Christian girl kidnapped, converted to Islam and was forcibly married to 44-year-old Muslim Azhar Ali, her kidnapper, reunites with her family. This was ruled yesterday ...
• 23 December 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Ambikapur Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 21, 2021 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Ambikapur, India, presented by Bishop Patras Minj, S.J. The Holy Father appointed Msg ...
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  23 December 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Vandalism in a Catholic church in southern India Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A 160-year-old Catholic church in the Chikkaballapur district, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka was vandalized on the morning of December 22. As confirmed to Fides by Father Joseh Ant ...
• 23 December 2021
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Appointment of the Rector of the interdiocesan major Seminary in Bata Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 8, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Sebastian Mba Nguema Mokuy, of the diocesan clergy of Ebebi ...