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• 26 January 2021
  AFRICA/CONGO - Appointment of the Rector of the "Msgr. Georges-Firmin Singha" Philosophical Seminary in the archdiocese of Brazzaville Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 3 September 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rector of the "Msgr. Georges-Firmin Singha" interdiocesan Philos ...
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  26 January 2021
  AFRICA/BENIN - Bishops' Conference wishes "Dialogue for free and transparent elections" Porto-Novo (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops' Conference of Benin urges all political parties and institutions involved in the election for an open dialogue for a peaceful, genuinely inclusive, democratic and transparent pr ...
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  26 January 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Capital executions of jihadists after the Baghdad attack claimed by Daesh Nassiriya (Agenzia Fides) - The attack, in which more than 30 people died and around ninety were injured in Baghdad last Thursday, and to which the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility, sparked outrage among the Ira ...
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  25 January 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic priest killed in Mindanao Malaybalay (Agenzia Fides) - Unidentified armed men opened fire and killed yesterday, January 24, a Filipino Catholic priest, Fr. Rene Bayang Regalado, as he was preparing to return to the Seminary in the village of Patp ...
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  25 January 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Church delegation visits Tigray: "The humanitarian situation is alarming" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "The number of people in need of food, water and medicine is currently tripling compared to the initial planning of the assistance project", said a report by the delegation of the Catholic C ...
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  25 January 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA -Beatification of José Gregorio Hernández in April: "Venezuela opens the door of hope and joy" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - As the Archdiocese of Caracas announced on Twitter yesterday, Sunday, January 24th, the beatification of José Gregorio Hernández will take place at the end of April. The spokesman for the dioc ...
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  25 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Eight children kidnapped in attack on orphanage in Abuja area Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least eight children have been abducted from an orphanage in Naharati in the Federal Territory of the capital, Abuja. On Saturday 23 January, at around 01.00 local time, a large group of heavil ...
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  25 January 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - First-ever Ecclesial Assembly of Latin America and the Caribbean: all the people of God protagonists of the mission Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church in Latin America and the Caribbean has begun the journey toward its first-ever Ecclesial Assembly. This is not a Conference of the Latin American Bishops like the previo ...
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  25 January 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: US President Biden should support "Lebanese neutrality" Bkerkè (Agenzia Fides) - The new US President Joe Biden could make a significant contribution to keeping Lebanon away from conflicts in the Middle East if he acted on the Lebanese motto of "neutrality" and avoided Leban ...
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  25 January 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A missionary: "Only love and generosity build the Church" Naandi (Agenzia Fides) - "The mission of the Church is continuous, the completion of one work being the beginning of the next". This is what Father Christopher Hartley Sartorius, a missionary in South Sudan, wrote to Fid ...
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  23 January 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - After 15 years of work, the “Bible of the Church in America” is now available for everyone Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The "Bible of the Church in America", a project of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) which took on the task of carrying out a translation of the Holy Scriptures into a contemporary l ...
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  23 January 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Jesuit Stan Swamy in prison: "Solidarity gives me immense strength and courage" Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "I deeply appreciate the overwhelming solidarity expressed by many people around the world, in these 100 days in prison. Sometimes the news of so much solidarity has given me immense strength and ...
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  22 January 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - "Breathe Peru": the first installations for the production of medicinal oxygen have been assembled Lima (Agenzia Fides) - In the presence of the President of the Republic of Peru, Francisco Sagasti, and the Minister of Health, Pilar Mazzetti, the solidarity initiative "Breathe Peru" (see Fides, 2/7/2020) presented yes ...
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  22 January 2021
  ASIA - Wealth inequality: a wound for the continent New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Among the top 15 most populous countries on the planet, eight are in Asia, but this continent which represents, with China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan, half of the world population - estima ...
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  22 January 2021
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The body of the missing priest has been found; victim of bandits or terrorists? Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "It is with deep sorrow that I bring to everyone's knowledge that the lifeless body of Fr. Rodrigue Sanon was found on 21 January in the forest of Toumousseni about twenty kilometers from Ba ...