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  29 January 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Heads of Churches: no to street violence. Support for the new Lebanese government Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Openness and encouragement towards the new government, denunciation of the scourge of corruption, together with the warning that the legitimate right to demonstrate cannot be invoked to justify ...
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  29 January 2020
  AFRICA/GUINEA - The clergy: "We are concerned about the social and political crisis that leads young people to flee" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "We are concerned about the illegal migration of our young people" and "the serious socio-political situation of our country", say the Catholic priests of the Republic of Guinea at the end of th ...
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  29 January 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Let us allow ourselves to be enlightened by the Word of God and give priority to the protection of democracy" urges Mgr. Sergio Gualberti Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "What must prevail is the safeguarding of democracy. All citizens and in particular candidates should allow themselves to be enlightened and guided by the values of the word of God: life, hum ...
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  28 January 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cardinal Tagle personally thanks and greets the faithful: "Do everything in the name of Christ" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Every action you do is a Eucharistic action. Your life is an endless Eucharist. Everything is done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to thank him for his call, his goodness, his mercy". With ...
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  28 January 2020
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Church announces the Jubilee Year of the Martyrs 40 years after the martyrdom of San Oscar Romero San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "Martyrdom is the greatest testimony of faith, because it faithfully reproduces Christ, giving his life so that others can have life in abundance" (cf. Jn 10:10), underlines the message of ...
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  28 January 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The establishment of bodies for the correct management of the assets of Catholic and Evangelical Churches continues at an intense pace Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The work of the government commission committed to preparing a bill for the establishment of property management bodies belonging to the Catholic Church and to the Evangelical Churches in Egypt co ...
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  28 January 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Continental Symposium on the mission ad gentes has begun Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) – The Continental Symposium on the mission ad gentes has begun, which will be held at the Cardinal Paul Zoungrana National Center in Ouagadougou from January 27 to February 1, 2020. Initial ...
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  28 January 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Prayer for peace in Abidjan no longer includes the procession "due to security reasons" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - It is an initiative scheduled since October 2019; unfortunately, the implementation of this project suffers from ambivalent, contradictory and ambiguous interpretations. This risks, if you are n ...
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  28 January 2020
  AFRICA/TOGO - A legal framework is needed that guarantees peaceful, credible, free and transparent elections Kara (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the presidential elections in Togo, the atmosphere between political powers and the Church remains very tense. "As in Ivory Coast, the Catholic Church in Togo is also accused of being ...
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  27 January 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Violence against the latest caravan of migrants", denounces a priest Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - About 500 Central American migrants of the caravan of migrants in the first group of 2020 took refuge in the diocesan "Belen" home-refuge in the diocese of Tapachula (Mexico). In a note sent ...
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  27 January 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Nessuna notizia sui 4 membri di SOS Chrétiens d’Orient scomparsi a Baghdad Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Four men working in Iraq for SOS Chretiens d'Orient (SOS Eastern Christians), a French Christian charity, have been missing since Monday 20 January in Baghdad. The missing workers were in Baghda ...
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  27 January 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - First-Ever Congress of Clergy in Ivory Coast planned for July Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Some time ago, in order to express their closeness to their priests and help them, support them in their pastoral and ministerial efforts, the Bishops decided to organize an extraordinary congr ...
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  25 January 2020
  VATICAN - A day devoted to the Bible should not be seen as a yearly event but rather a year-long event: initiatives in local Churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "A day devoted to the Bible should not be seen as a yearly event but rather a year-long event, for we urgently need to grow in our knowledge and love of the Scriptures and of the risen Lord ...
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  25 January 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Human rights abuses, sectarian violence and discrimination in society: a new Report Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The standard of respect for human rights in Pakistan is worrying, especially for those who live in poverty, are of lower social status or belong to ethnic or religious minorities: this is what ...
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  25 January 2020
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholics remember a young Chinese priest and missionary of Tibetan ethnicity, who devoted his life for the Gospel Di Qing (Agenzia Fides) - Everyone remembers him as a holy man and as an ardent missionary: on the night of January 17, the feast of St Anthony Abate, a hermit, a man of solitary life and prayer, Fr. Joseph Ma Zha Xi, wh ...