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  2 December 2020
  VATICAN - General audience: Pope commemorates missionaries murdered 40 years ago Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of today's general audience, Pope Francis recalled the ordeal of four missionaries with the words: "Today is the fortieth anniversary of the death of four North American missiona ...
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  2 December 2020
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Farewell to Archbishop Henri Teissier: he wanted to make known the importance of St. Augustine's African origins Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - He left this world on the feast of Blessed Charles de Foucauld: Henri Antoine Marie Teissier, Archbishop Emeritus of Algiers, died yesterday, December 1st, at the age of 91, due to the consequen ...
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  2 December 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops: "No to the culture of hedonism that leads young people to ignore anti Covid-19 restrictions" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "People are tired of Covid-19 restrictions", says His Exc. Mgr. Sithembele Sipuka, Bishop of Mthatha and President of SACBC (Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, which brings toge ...
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  2 December 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Islamist threat in Kivu and Mozambique: States in southern Africa should act together Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamist threat in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the north of Mozambique is a common challenge and all countries in southern Africa must face it together. This is ...
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  1 December 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - Three days of prayer and fasting in all dioceses: "Let's give Haiti a chance!" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Prayer, fasting and intercession for conversion and for the liberation of the country" is what the Bishops of Haiti are asking the faithful, from 5 to 7 December, in the parishes of the ...
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  1 December 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic reaction against terrorism and religious hatred after the Sulawesi massacre Poso (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to save the country from dangerous terrorist attacks. We condemn every act of terrorism and religious fundamentalism, corruption and destruction of the environment": this is what the Indon ...
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  1 December 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Caritas: no to the abortion law, we must protect life, especially the most fragile and vulnerable Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "The pandemic that we are still suffering from has, as in any country, made the health of all Argentines a priority. Caritas has redoubled its efforts to meet the basic needs of our brother ...
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  1 December 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Church continues to pray for peace while the situation in Tigray remains uncertain Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - While the government of Addis Ababa announced that Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray region, had been taken by the Ethiopian army and declared victory over the Tigray People's Liberation Fr ...
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  1 December 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Indonesian Bishops: it is urgent to eradicate terrorism and do justice, for the prosperity of the Country Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "The bloody and violent attacks that took place in Poso are beyond our humanity and civilization and contradicts the values of humanity and religious teachings", said the Indonesian Bishops' Co ...
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  1 December 2020
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal Nzapalainga on the death of Kobine Lamaya: a "peacemaker" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a baobab that has fallen, because this man was a scholar, a man of wisdom, who spoke of unity and had respect and appreciation for his fellow men ", said His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné N ...
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  1 December 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Patriarch Bartholomew: Christian unity is not an "ecumenical utopia", but the will of Christ himself Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The path to full Christian unity has not stopped and must be continued with tenacity, realism and "full trust in Providence" precisely because it is not based on a sterile "ecumenical utopia" b ...
• 30 November 2020
  ASIA/KOREA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Daejeon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 November 2020, the Holy Father appointed rev. Stephanus Han Jung Hyun, of the clergy of Daejeon, currently Parish priest of the Holy Family Parish, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese ...
• 30 November 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of El Beni Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 November 2020, the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Aurelio Pesoa Ribera, O.F.M., titular bishop of Leges, currently Auxiliary of the Archdiocese of La Paz and Secretary General o ...
• 30 November 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Bishop of Homa Bay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 November 2020, the Holy Father appointed rev. Michael Otieno Odiwa, of the clergy of Homa Bay, currently a Fidei Donum priest in the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Adelaide (Australia) a ...
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  30 November 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Bishops join the protests: No to the bill on metalliferous development in the province of Chubut Chubut (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Argentine province of Chubut, in the north-southern part of the country, have once again rejected the bill "Sustainable metalliferous industrial development of the province of ...