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  13 February 2020
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops: "our permanent mission is to announce Jesus Christ" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "Our main task as Bishops is to promote, guide and animate evangelization in our country, with the help of priests, consecrated persons and the many lay people to whom we express our than ...
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  13 February 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A kidnapped Christian girl reunites with her family Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – At present we can consider it a story with a happy ending, but it remains a rare case. Sneha, 14, a Christian girl from a family who lives in the "colony" of Bahar, Lahore, who had been kidnapp ...
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  13 February 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The celebrations for the 40th anniversary of Opus Dei in the Ivory Coast are to begin Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Celebrating these 40 years means realizing the miracles that God can do. From the five lay people at the beginning of 1980, today there are about 500 faithful of Opus Dei in the Ivory Coast, in ...
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  13 February 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Syriac Orthodox monk Sefer Bileçen indicted as "terrorist supporter" Mardin (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish authorities have formally charged Syriac Orthodox monk Sefer Bileçen for complicity with terrorist organizations and activities. The monk was arrested last January 9 by Turkish secur ...
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  13 February 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Elections, a light of hope for the country that must be nurtured and protected Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Future elections, which have yet to be determined, open a constitutional and peaceful possibility of emerging from the current social, political and economic crisis that Nicaragua is experiencin ...
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  12 February 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Inter-ethnic clashes: the Church prays for the victims and calls for peace Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "We pray for all those who have suffered, for those who still suffer, for the deceased and hospitalized. We pray and hope that the spirit of reconciliation among the inhabitants of these populati ...
• 12 February 2020
  OCEANIA/MICRONESIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Caroline Islands and successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 January 2020, the Holy Father accepted the renunciation of the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Caroline Islands (Federated States of Micronesia), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Amand ...
• 12 February 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Antonio de Jesùs Mascorro Tristàn, MG Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 21, 2019 Card. Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Antonio de Jesùs Mascorro Tristàn, MG (Santa Maria de Gua ...
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  12 February 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Happiness and sadness together", after the cancellation of the accusations against the bishops Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "I am both happy and sad", said Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, at the head of the diocese of Caloocan, north of Manila, to Agenzia Fides, who welcomed the prosecutors decision to drop "sedition" ch ...
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  12 February 2020
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Caritas Senegal: More than 7 million people in food crisis in the Sahel region Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – More than 7 million people are affected by food insecurity in the Sahel region. This was stated by Caritas Senegal, which held its 56th Plenary Assembly in Ziguinchor, from 8 to 9 February. The ...
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  12 February 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - After the 33rd Security Summit, "a political conscience in love with democracy" is expected Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Will there be concrete actions for the well-being of African populations or will it be a routine event as always? This is the question that many Africans are asking at the end of the 33rd Su ...
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  12 February 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Publication of "Querida Amazonia" on the anniversary of the murder of Sister Dorothy Parà (Agenzia Fides) - Five years ago, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the violent death of Sister Dorothy Stang, the Bishop of the Prelature of Alto Xingu-Tucuna (Brazil) and President of the Indigenous Missiona ...
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  12 February 2020
  VATICAN - The «great missionary proclamation» of Querida Amazonia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church «is called to journey alongside the people of the Amazon region» and to develop a Church with an «Amazonian face». But «for this incarnation of the Church and the Gospel to be possi ...
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  8 February 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Safeguarding creation and social responsibility among the objectives of Caritas in the new year Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "A new year has began: for Caritas Kazakhstan it is a new beginning made up of many challenges, many emotions, new initiatives and old and new friends. We thank all those who joined us in 2019 an ...
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  8 February 2020
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - A missionary: "To bring the Gospel of Christ into society" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Bangladesh is called to give greater emphasis and responsibility to lay Catholics, trying to make understood that the apostolate is not only the ecclesial service, in the context of ...