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  13 January 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Prayer intensifies while a "volcanic tsunami" is at risk Manila (Agenzia Fides) - While Manila and many adjacent provinces are preparing for the eruption of the second most active volcano in the country, the Taal, near Manila, Catholic faithful intensify prayers for the safety ...
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  13 January 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - There is still no news of 4 seminarians kidnapped in Kaduna Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – There is still no news of the four seminarians kidnapped on the evening of January 8 in the "Good Shepherd d Kakau" Major Seminary along the Kaduna-Abuja highway. The village is located near Kad ...
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  13 January 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission mobilizes for the needs of the Australian population affected by the fires Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholic Mission" Australia, which is the National Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Australia, has announced an immediate collaboration with the St. Vincent de Paul Society to of ...
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  13 January 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The 114th Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference opens today in the sign of reconciliation Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Communion at the service of reconciliation". This is the theme of the 114th Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of the Ivory Coast, which will be held from 13 to 19 January, at the Lat ...
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  13 January 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops of the Pacific and Southwest: respect for human rights, peoples and international law Quibdò (Agenzia Fides) - "On several occasions we have drawn attention to the difficulties that many people are experiencing in the Pacific and Southwest region and we have asked the Colombian state for a global solutio ...
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  13 January 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - "The earthquake of 12 January 2010 taught us a few things": the testimony of a Redemptorist missionary Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Port-au-prince is totally devastated, shouts are heard from under the rubble everywhere", said to Fides the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, 10 years ago, thus informing the ...
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  10 January 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - The Supreme Court of India will examine the appeal in favor of the Christian Dalits New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court of India will examine the appeal filed which calls for equal treatment and opportunities for Christian Dalits in Indian legislation, considered "discriminatory with respect t ...
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  10 January 2020
  AMERICA - Message from CELAM: "Let us walk and pray together for peace in the world" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We join together in prayer with the Pope, we reject all forms of violence and social division, and we ask the great nations of the world, in particular their rulers, for mutual respect, harmony ...
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  10 January 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Manipulation of the Constitutions in Africa: a brake on democracy Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the upcoming presidential elections, Guinea and Ivory Coast are willing to review their respective national Constitutions in order to ensure that the various outgoing powers have the ...
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  10 January 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - Attack against soldiers on the border with Mali; according to a Bishop, the jihadists intend to occupy the Sahel region Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Suspected Islamic militants killed at least 25 soldiers on Thursday in an attack that came just a month after the worst jihadist assault on the military in years. The attack, which also left doze ...
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  9 January 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cardinal Tagle: "Let us pray for peace in the Middle East" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Luis Antonio Cardinale, Archbishop of Manila, appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, urges the Filipino faithful to pray for the peace and security of p ...
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  9 January 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops appeal at the beginning of the year: let us stop war and violence, the result of intolerance and interests Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico launch an appeal "to stop the violence caused by the intolerance of ideas and the struggle of the interests with each other", in a message published on January 8 with t ...
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  9 January 2020
  AFRICA/TOGO - A missionary: "There are no large highways for evangelization, but small paths that must be sought every day" Kolowaré (Agenzia Fides) - "I had already visited some farms in the middle of the wooded savannah, behind Kadambara, towards the south a few days ago, where there is a pressing need for water", says to Agenzia Fides Fat ...
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  9 January 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Procession of the Black Nazarene: "Our mission is love" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - About two million Filipinos have flocked since the early hours of today, January 9, the streets of Manila, occupying the district of Quiapo, to venerate an image of Jesus Christ carrying the cros ...
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  9 January 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Assembly of Bishops examines the ecclesial and socio-political reality; call for respect for the National Assembly Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - While the ordinary plenary assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV) is taking place, the 41 Bishops of the various ecclesiastical circumscriptions of the country have published a ...