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  19 December 2019
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - A new Catholic hospital wins patients' hearts   Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - A new Catholic hospital has opened its doors in Dhaka, offering quality health care and services: we are talking about the St. John Vianney Hospital, recently built in the archdiocese of Dhaka and ...
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  19 December 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - First meeting of Bishops with the new President: food crisis, drug addiction and prisons Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The urgent social needs that the country presents, in particular "the serious food situation, the growing demand for drugs by young people and the serious situation of prisons" were the sub ...
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  19 December 2019
  AMERICA/CHILE - Catholic organizations dealing with migrants give life to the Chilean section of Red Clamor Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "We meet today, December 18, the day in which the United Nations Organization called for the International Day of Migrants. We chose this date because, with this act and the signing of this agr ...
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  19 December 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop of Aleppo: communities weakened by the selfishness of individuals. At Christmas may the light of Christ give us unity Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Baby Jesus came into the world in a historical moment torn by violence, deprivation and suffering, similar to those that today afflict Syrians and other peoples of the Middle East. The light of h ...
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  19 December 2019
  AFRICA/CAMERUN - “Non cadiamo nella trappola del tribalismo” avvertono i Vescovi AFRICA/CAMEROON - "Let us not fall into the trap of tribalism" warn the Bishops Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "It is worth noting that, during and after the last presidential elections, we witnessed a growing and highly w ...
• 18 December 2019
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Appointment of the Bishop of Ngozi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 17th the Holy Father appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Ngozi (Burundi), His Exc. Mgr. Georges Bizimana, currently Coadjutor Bishop of Bubanza. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 18/12/2019) ...
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  18 December 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - For many, migration has become the only option to save one's life Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "New faces, very dynamic. Migration processes in Mexico" is the title of the report presented in Madrid on the occasion of the International Day of Migrants, which is celebrated today by Entrecul ...
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  18 December 2019
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - An ecumenical and inter-religious prayer for peace unites Christians and Muslims Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "We are all Guineans and we are one people; who has one God the Creator of all". This was the focus of the ecumenical and inter-religious prayer for peace and for the good progress of the elector ...
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  18 December 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Missionary Church's commitment to those affected by leprosy Chhattisgarh (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary Church has a long tradition of assistance to leprosy patients, this is the case of the Jeevodaya Social and Leprosy Rehabilitation Center which has been assisting people affe ...
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  18 December 2019
  ASIA - "To be with" is the way to bring Christ to Asia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "To be with. From here begins the Christian announcement in Asia. 'To be with' is the way to evangelize. It is important first of all to be, our presence in a context, a community, a society. Then ...
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  17 December 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Reaching out to migrants: joint initiative of the frontier dioceses of Brownsville and Matamoros Matamoros (Agenzia Fides) - The Casa del Migrante San Juan Diego and San Francisco, in the city of Matamoros, the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bordering the southern part of the US state of Texas, received three tons of ...
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  17 December 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Maccalli is "a thread that has united us for 15 months: we entrust him to the Lord" Crema (Agenzia Fides) - Fifteen months ago Father Luigi Maccalli, a priest of the Society for African Missions was kidnapped in Niger, in September 2018 (see Fides, 18/9/2018). Many people continue to keep his memory ali ...
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  17 December 2019
  VATICAN - The challenges of mission in Asia: a conference at the Urbaniana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The conference that, on the 20th anniversary of the post-synodal exhortation "Ecclesia in Asia", is to be held at the Pontifical Urbaniana University on 18 and 19 December focuses on the ch ...
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  17 December 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Two important ecclesial meetings in Malawi Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - "The meeting helped us to better plan and prepare for the year of the Bible", said the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Vincent Mwakwawa, at the end of the planning meeting of the biblical yea ...
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  17 December 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - The new law on citizenship to immigrants "is unconstitutional": appeal to "civil disobedience" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The new law on citizenship (Citizenship Amendment Act 2019), approved by Parliament and promulgated on December 12 after the signature of the President of India, is clearly discriminatory, di ...