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• 12 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - After the release of the Italian missionary: "Attacks on Christians continue" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The feast for the liberation of Father Pierluigi Maccalli, last October, after two years of imprisonment in the desert, was short-lived", writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, brother of F ...
• 12 January 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 October 2020, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Father Claude Bernard Wakouzou, of the Comboni missionaries, MCCJ ...
• 12 January 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Two Bishops denounce: "Distressing situation for migrants at the South African border due to Covid controls" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Over the past few days the distressing situation at the border posts in Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe has made headlines. This occurred at the beginning and at the end of ...
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  12 January 2021
  VATICAN - Father Leonardo Sileo confirmed as Rector of the Urbaniana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 January 2021, the Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, confirmed Prof. Fr. Leonardo Sileo, OFM, as Rector of the Pontifical Urbaniana Univers ...
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  12 January 2021
  ASIA/TURKEY - Sister Maria Concetta Mustacciu died of Covid-19: "guardian" of the Church of Tarsus Tarsus (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Maria Concetta Mustacciu of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Church died yesterday, Monday, January 11th as a result of Covid-19 disease. Sister Maria Concetta was the mother super ...
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  11 January 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The nun kidnapped on January 8 released by kidnappers; dozens of acts of violence occur every day Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - According to information sent to Fides by the Secretary General of the Conference of Religious of Haiti, Father Gilbert Peltrop, Sister Dachoune Sévère, a religious of the Congregation ...
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  11 January 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Publication of the slogan and logo of the Pope's apostolic visit to Iraq Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "You are all Brothers": the expression of Jesus, taken from a verse of Matthew's Gospel ("As for you, do not be called 'Rabbi.' You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers", Mt 23, 8) has ...
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  11 January 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Violations of the right to information and to the work of journalists denounced by the Archdiocese of Caracas Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On January 9, the Third Session of the Ordinary Plenary Assembly of of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV) took place digitally, during which the Archbishops and Bishops of the country w ...
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  11 January 2021
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - The contribution of Catholic nurses to health assistance during the pandemic, a channel of God's love Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic nurses in Singapore, in this time of pandemic, are a valid and precious contribution, and it is an extraordinary channel for communicating God's love. This is what the Archdiocese ...
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  11 January 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - New violence in Araucania: appeal of the Bishop of Temuco, "only fraternity generates social peace" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "These days our region, already deeply affected by the pandemic, poverty and lack of opportunities, polarization, failure to keep the promises made to the Mapuche people and the feeling of abando ...
• 11 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - The number of displaced people is increasing after the massacres of January 2 Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The terror sown by the twin attacks on two villages in Niger on 2 January (see Fides 4/1/2021), have caused the flight of over 10,000 inhabitants in the region of Tillaberi, in the west. Accor ...
• 11 January 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Elections, the Bishops: "No to police violence, yes to dialogue and national reconciliation" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "No to the abuse of the authorities and police violence against innocent citizens and legitimate opposition representatives" warn the Bishops of Uganda, in their pastoral letter for the presiden ...
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  11 January 2021
  ASIA/KIRGHIZSTAN - Elections and constitutional referendum: the country towards presidentialism with leader Japarov Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not surprising that Sadyr Japarov won the Kyrgyz presidential elections with almost 80% of the vote. What is significant, however, is the fact that yesterday the constitutional referendum ...
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  10 January 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Appeal of the Bishop of Anse-à-Veau/Miragoâne to pray after the kidnapping of a nun Carrefour (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of Friday, 8 January, unknown persons kidnapped a nun of the Little Sisters of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus from the nuns' residence located at Brochette 99, Commune de Ca ...
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  9 January 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Cardinal Coutts for his 50 years of priesthood: "God helps me to witness and announce the Gospel in Pakistan" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Fifty years of priesthood in the name of Harmony which is his episcopal motto: this is what Cardinal Joseph Coutts, Archbishop of Karachi said in an interview with Agenzia Fides on the occasion ...