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  15 December 2021
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - The small but significant presence of a Church in dialogue Djibouti (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a small, fragile Church, but strong in the light of the Gospel that cannot be announced verbally, being an Islamic country, but lived. Certainly the Christians and the sisters who live t ...
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  15 December 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The bishops: contemplating the family of Bethlehem, every home becomes a school of growth and positive experiences La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - In view of Christmas and the end of the calendar year, the Bishops of Bolivia make a "serene but hopeful" assessment of some pending issues that Bolivians "must know how to face with wisdom and a ...
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  15 December 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Humanitarian corridors from Afghanistan, a way to save lives Trento (Agenzia Fides) - Christian organizations committed in Italy to humanitarian aid, development and reception projects put their resources, their skills and the "passion for humanity" that characterize them at the s ...
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  15 December 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Improving interreligious relations: the commitment of Christian organizations Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Interreligious dialogue is of great importance in Pakistan: meetings between people of different religions are essential to overcome tensions and divisions, to eliminate violence, hatred and dis ...
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  15 December 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Pastoral Land: 26 murders reported in eight months Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - According to data from the Documentation Center of the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) on conflicts in camps, in the period from January, 1 to August 31, 2021, 26 homicides related to land confl ...
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  15 December 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Ezo county towards an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-pandemic world Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "Leadership and participation of persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world" was the theme of the meeting organized in Ezo county, one of the te ...
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  15 December 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Missionaries of Charity accused of proselytizing: for Catholics it is pure defamation Vadodara (Agenzia Fides) - "The Missionaries of Charity are targeted by Hindu nationalists. It is pure defamation; they want to defame and slander Christian nuns and institutions". This is what Capuchin Father Suresh Mat ...
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  15 December 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarchs and Heads of Churches ask local governments for a "safeguard area" for the Christian quarter of Jerusalem Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The local governments that currently control the Holy Land are urged to "initiate a dialogue" among themselves and with the Churches and ecclesial communities present there, in view of the cre ...
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  14 December 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Growing concern for the nuns and deacons arrested Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very worried about their fate. We have no news and we still do not understand the reason for such an act. In the meantime, the concern increases". Speaking to Fides, Mother Raffael ...
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  14 December 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians oppose anti-conversion law in Karnataka Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) – To oppose the anti-conversion bill that targets Christians in the state of Karnataka, in southern India. With this aim, the faithful of the state have launched an awareness campaign and vari ...
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  14 December 2021
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The canonization of Charles de Foucauld and the mission of the "Churches of the Visitation" Constantine (Agenzia Fides) - Charles de Foucauld will be proclaimed a saint on May 15 in Rome. But in the lands where Brother Charles of Jesus gave his life, his holiness already accompanies the multiform Christian comm ...
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  14 December 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Popular initiative for the right to freedom of conscience and religion in the new Constitution Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Chilean Episcopal Conference (CECh) invites all citizens to support the popular initiative which calls for the inclusion in the new Constitution of the right to freedom of religion and of c ...
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  14 December 2021
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "Spirituality of communication": online program promoted by the Salesians of Don Bosco Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The COVID-19 pandemic has opened up new ways of connection and communication, networking and learning. Among these, the School of Formation for Social Communications, an online program laun ...
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  14 December 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Earthquake on the island of Flores: "Our structures are still intact. We hope that the five volcanoes remain inactive", writes a missionary Flores (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, around 11:20 a.m. local time (04:20 a.m. Italian time), an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 was recorded about 91 kilometers north of Maumere, in Indonesia, the second largest cit ...
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  14 December 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - COVID-19: 41 priests and 4 Bishops have died in the country since March 2020 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - From March 2020 to December 13, 2021, 413 priests and 26 Bishops were infected with COVID-19 in Venezuela: 41 priests and 4 Bishops died. This is what the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV) an ...