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  5 January 2021
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Violence against women and families continues to worsen: "Let's sow peace in 2021" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago and Chairman of the Dominican Bishops' Conference, Mgr Freddy Bretón Martínez, hopes that the country will have a judicial system that lives up to its name by 2021. ...
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  5 January 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Bangassou, a ghost town. Bishop describes the situation as "calm but tense" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Juan José Aguirre Muñoz of Bangassou describes the situation in the city in the south-east of the Central African Republic conquered by the rebels as "calm but tense" (see Fides 4/1/2021 ...
• 4 January 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Quetta, Pakistan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Khalid Rehmat, O.F.M. Cap., until now Custos of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in Pakistan, as vicar apostolic of Quetta, Pakistan. Msgr. ...
• 4 January 2021
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Wellington, New Zealand Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Paul Martin of the diocese of Christchurch as coadjutor archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Wellington, New Zealand. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 4/1/ ...
• 4 January 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Appointment of the Archbishop of Korhogo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed His Exc. Msgr. Ignace Bessi Dogbo, currently Bishop of the Diocese of Katiola, as Metropolitan Archbishop of Korhogo (Ivory Coast). (SL) (Agenzia Fides ...
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  4 January 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops on the legalization of abortion: "The Church will continue to work with determination for the protection of life" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Argentina wants to reaffirm, together with brothers and sisters of different faiths and also with many non-believers, that it will continue to work with determination and pas ...
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  4 January 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Is there really hope for the Rohingya? Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In the new year there is hope for the Rohingya people, one of the most important Muslim communities in Myanmar, who so far have no citizenship, no peace and no hospitality. The Pope had words of ...
• 4 January 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Nairobi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nairobi (Kenya), presented by His Eminence Cardinal John Njue. (SL) (Agenzia F ...
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  4 January 2021
  AMERICA - Message from the President of CELAM: In addition to pain and poverty, 2020 will also go down in history for great acts of Christian charity" Trujillo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are ending a year that history will remember as a time marked by the global health crisis related to the coronavirus - Covid-19. Our region was also faced with this harsh reality", says Mgr ...
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  4 January 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Bishop reports dead and wounded after the siege of Bangassou Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Yes, Bangassou has fallen into the hands of the rebels, many of whom are mercenaries and people from Niger. The morning was hectic. Heavy artillery from 5 in the morning with about thirty dead a ...
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  4 January 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The new Vicar Apostolic of Quetta places his office under the protection of Our Lady Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "God is doing great works in my life and I am surprised when I ponder God's plans. I had never thought of being elected Custos of the Capuchin fraternity and much less did I expect to become a Bi ...
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  4 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - More than 100 people die in attacks on two villages Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – About one hundred people died on January 2 in Niger in attacks on two villages in the west of the country, in Tchoma Bangou, where 70 people were killed, and in Zaroumadareye, where 30 people w ...
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  4 January 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr creates a Committee for the return of illegal expropriations from Christian property owners Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr, head of the Sadist political group who enjoys strong representation in the Parliament of Baghdad, has ordered the creation of a Committee in charge of coll ...
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  30 December 2020
  VATICAN - MISSIONARIES KILLED IN 2020 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, in 2020 20 missionaries were killed in the world: 8 priests, 1 religious man, 3 religious women, 2 seminarians, 6 lay people. This year ...
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  30 December 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - "Christ was born in Kazakhstan, in the encounter with the other", says the Bishop of Karaganda Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "What we consider the extraordinary night of the birth of Jesus, for the inhabitants of Bethlehem was an evening like any other, where in the chaos of the census, the shepherds continued to gu ...