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  13 January 2022
  AMERICA/HAITI - Twelve years after the earthquake: Redemptorists inaugurate the parish church of St. Gerard after being rebuilt Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Sunday, January 9 will forever be remembered in the hearts of parishioners and in the annals of the Redemptorist Congregation as the date of the inauguration of the new parish church of S ...
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  13 January 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - From war lockdown to health lockdown Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Kazakhstan, after the popular uprising that began on January 5, has "normalized", but "a veil of deep sadness" remains on the streets of Almaty. This is what Father Guido Trezzan ...
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  13 January 2022
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Students help African migrants: "We get to know and love them" Fès (Agenzia Fides) - "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was a foreigner, and you welcomed me". This quote from the Gospel of Matthew inspired a group of ...
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  13 January 2022
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishop of Matagalpa: Human dignity and freedom are prerequisites for a new beginning Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "The principle of human dignity is fundamental to the reconstruction of a country. Respect for the person and his or her dignity must be the axes around which all efforts must revolve so that ...
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  13 January 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Tawadros: for Copts there is no longer any "ban" on visiting Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The Coptic Christians of Egypt who go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem do not contravene any provision of the ecclesiastical authority. The prescriptions laid down in the past by the leaders of the Co ...
• 13 January 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Accidental fire destroys refugee camp near the Cathedral of Alindao Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - About 1,500 houses destroyed by flames and extensive material damage to other structures, about twenty people were hospitalized. This is the toll of the violent fire which devastated the refugee ...
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  12 January 2022
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The new Archbishop of Seoul: pray for peace and walk a path of unity and reconciliation Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "To achieve peace, we need to reflect on ourselves and pray for peace. Prayer nurtures our faith in the presence of God, the Holy Spirit who is our teacher and guide of prayers. Remembering the tr ...
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  12 January 2022
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Indigenous pastoral worker, human rights and environmental activist murdered Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "We strongly condemn the murder of the representative of the Lenca people, Pablo Isabel Hernández, on Sunday, January 9th, in western Honduras. Human rights activist and environmentalist, p ...
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  12 January 2022
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “There's not much here other than knowing that God's love gives meaning to everything” Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "The meaning of life is to love others at all ages and in every place. We Christians proclaim and testify first of all that someone else gives our life meaning because he loves us: he loves every ...
• 12 January 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Jihadists pressured by the military; Christian and Muslim leaders: "no to the exploitation of religion" Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - About 30 people, mostly women and children, have managed to escape in recent days from the hands of Islamist militias that they had captured in the Cabo Delgado region in the far north of Mozambi ...
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  12 January 2022
  ASIA/ISRAEL - Christian population: numerical growth with percentage decrease compared to other religions Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian population of Israel continues the slight numerical growth that has characterized it since the founding of the Jewish state, but also continues its progressive decline in percenta ...
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  12 January 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops publish new edition on the office of catechist: "Making the lay ministry understandable" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB) has presented the second edition of the text of Studies No. 95 on the "Ministry of the Catechist". This new edition is intended to be useful after the f ...
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  11 January 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The smile on the face of many orphaned children and the fatigue of women: the poor, always at the center Abobo (Agenzia Fides) - "I belong to the Congregation of the Holy Family of Spoleto. At the age of 17 I wanted to consecrate myself to God and after my religious profession I went to Guatemala", so begins the story of Si ...
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  11 January 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The first indigenous diocesan priest of the Apostolic Vicariate of El Beni has died Trinidad (Agenzia Fides) - Father Maximiliano Noe Valverde was born on August 18, 1962, the third of eight brothers in the parish of La Fortuna on the Mamoré River. In the ten years from 1990 to 2000, nine deacons and s ...
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  11 January 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - After riots in Almaty: “Many parts of the city are completely devastated” Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in the Almaty area is slowly stabilizing. Now we are starting to take stock of the disaster: some parts of the city have been completely devastated and apparently have been bombed. ...