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  11 December 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Prayer and service for peace: priestly ordination in the diocese of Tombura-Yambio Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "My dear deacons, you have been chosen to spread love and holiness, to save God's people and forgive sins. From this moment on, your commitment is to bring others closer to God", said Mgr ...
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  11 December 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop Kaigama to politicians: "Be close to the people to understand their needs" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "You are avoiding contact with the people whose needs or sufferings you do not understand", denounced His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, during the ceremony as he takes over the Archdiocese of A ...
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  11 December 2019
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cardinal Tagle: "Announcing the Gospel means communicating the presence and compassion of Christ with life" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Father sent me a message informing me of the new responsibility entrusted to me: I am grateful to him for the trust he has in me. I entrust my new service to the protection of the Bless ...
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  11 December 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - Food banks in parishes, free medical services: the resilience of the Lebanese in the face of the crisis Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "Brother, if you have no money, do not be ashamed and do not leave your family without food. Please come in and take what you need: coffee, spices, cereals, because God cares about you and me", T ...
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  10 December 2019
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Lasallian missionary brother James Alfred Miller beatified, "martyr for education" Huehuetenango (Agenzia Fides) - "A martyr, an excellent educator and evangelical defender of the poor and oppressed, who became one of us and for us gave his life": this is how Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, B ...
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  10 December 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A 3-day sit-in organized by lay Catholics against corruption and violence in the eastern part of the Country Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are determined to continue the crusade for the consolidation of the rule of law", says a message sent to Fides by the Committee of Lay Coordination (CLC), an organization of lay Catholics, ...
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  10 December 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Baez celebrated the feast of the Immaculate Conception with the Nicaraguan community of Miami Miami (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Silvio José Baez, Auxiliary Bishop of Managua, who currently resides in the Vatican, was invited by the parish of Sant'Agata in Miami (USA) to celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conceptio ...
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  10 December 2019
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Launch of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the Xaverian presence in Sierra Leone Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - From December 2 to 4, all the Xaverians of the Sierra Leone district gathered in the house of Makeni for their annual Assembly. "The central theme dealt with during the meeting was the COSUMA A ...
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  10 December 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - The "Kairos Project" of the Middle East Council of Churches takes shape Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The project "KAIROS Middle East: towards a global Church pact" takes shape, designed by the Middle East Council of Churches, (MECC) as a tool for global reflection on the condition of Churches an ...
• 10 December 2019
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni, outgoing Prefect of "Propaganda Fide", will be in office until mid-January: "I saw the beautiful face of the local Churches" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, outgoing Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, will remain in office until mid-January, when elected Prefect, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle ...
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  9 December 2019
  VATICAN - Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 8 December, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines, to lead the Congregation fo ...
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  9 December 2019
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mission of harmony and service to life: Cardinal Tagle speaks to the police Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The police have a mission that means "working for harmony" and serving the life of every citizen: with these words Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, addressed the officials of th ...
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  9 December 2019
  EUROPE/POLAND - Solemn entrustment of the whole missionary Church to the Black Madonna of Częstochowa Częstochowa (Agenzia Fides) - About 400 people took part in the Symposium and Missionary Vigil that took place in Chęstochowa from 7 to 8 December. The vigil for the evangelization of the world, organized by the Pontif ...
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  9 December 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - New repression against the Church: the Bishop of Esteli denounces "the pain of a people" Esteli (Agenzia Fides) - On the day of the most heartfelt Marian feast in the Central American country, the Immaculate Conception, the Catholic Church once again denounced the harsh repression against the suffering peopl ...
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  9 December 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New massacres in North Kivu bring the number of victims, since October 30, to 141. Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More dead and wounded due in the assaults of the ADF/NALU militiamen in the territory of Beni, in North Kivu (in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). According to the NGO of CEPADHO civil ...