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  2 January 2019
  AMERICA/PORTO RICO - The Bishops: 2019 is an extraordinary missionary Year San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - The desire for a new missionary impulse for the Church in Puerto Rico has prompted its bishops to hold an Extraordinary Missionary Year, which will begin on January 13th (feast of the Baptism o ...
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  2 January 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Tensions awaiting the results of the vote. Bishops' appeal to remain calm Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Congolese let us remain vigilant": this is the appeal launched by the Lay Coordination Committee (CLC), while the counting of the electoral ballots of the general elections held in much of the ...
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  2 January 2019
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Strong commitment by the Catholic community to the tsunami victims Bogor (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the difficulties, an immense humanitarian effort by the Catholic community in Indonesia is under way to assist the survivors of the December 22nd tsunami. The anomalous wave, sparked by un ...
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  2 January 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - Baghdad, Muslims and Christians oppose the demolition of a church Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Dozens of inhabitants of Baghdad, Christians and Muslims, have given rise to public mobilizations to stop the realization of a project of urban restructuring that would also imply the demolition ...
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  29 December 2018
  VATICAN - MISSIONARIES KILLED IN THE YEAR 2018 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In the course of the year 2018, 40 Missionaries were killed throughout the world, almost double the 23 of the previous year, and they were priests for the most part: 35. After eight conse ...
• 28 December 2018
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of the Bishop of Vinh Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 December 2018 the Holy Father appointed H.E. Msgr. Alphonse Nguyên Huu Long, P.S.S., currently Auxiliary bishop of Hung Hoá, as Bishop of Vinh, (Vietnam). (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 28/12 ...
• 28 December 2018
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Creation of the Diocese of Hà Tĩnh and appointment of first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 December 2018 the Holy Father created the new diocese of Ha Tĩnh (Vietnam), with the dismemberment of the diocese of Vinh, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Hà Nôi a ...
• 28 December 2018
  OCEANIA/WALLIS ET FUTUNA - Resignation of the Bishop of Wallis et Futuna and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 24, 2018 the Holy Father Francis the resignation from the pastoral care of Wallis et Futuna (Pacific Islands), presented by His Exc. Msgr. Ghislain de Rasilly, SM, and appointed ...
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  28 December 2018
  EUROPE/GERMANY - "Star Singers" collection 2019: "Together next to disabled children" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - More than 2,600 "Star Singers" (Sternsinger) of the Holy Childhood Association in Germany will participate today, Friday, December 28th at the official inauguration of their 61st Annual Campaign ...
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  28 December 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - In a generalized climate of fear, a priest threatened with death by an armed group Santa Rosa de Osos (Agenzia Fides) - The parish priest of the rural village of Cuturú (diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos) was threatened with death for refusing to pay bribes to one of the active armed groups in the area, t ...
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  28 December 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Ten years of communal violence could not stop ten years of priestly formation Kandhamal (Agenzia Fides) - Four survivors of the worst anti-Christian violence in modern India on December 27, 2018 were ordained as Capuchin priests. Two times attacked in 2007-2008 Arundaya Capuchin ashram Minor Sem ...
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  28 December 2018
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Immigration is a phenomenon that severely hits Africa Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Immigration is a phenomenon that severely affects Africa. The continent is not only a migrant transit territory towards Europe and North America, but is itself a land of migration. This is what th ...
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  22 December 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Despite violence, we celebrate Christmas because we place our hope not in men but in the Lord" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "How do we celebrate Christ the King of Peace when some of our brothers and sisters in Northern Nigeria and, especially in the North Eastern part are constantly being attacked unprovoked? How do w ...
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  22 December 2018
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Bishops of Haiti: "A Christmas marked by the great ills affecting our country" Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The collapse of state institutions, the escalation of violence, armed gangs in the pay of powerful sponsors, the growing economic debacle leading to intolerable impoverishment, but also w ...
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  22 December 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Arshad: "God, make us an instrument of your peace in Pakistan" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "In a world where darkness reigns, humanity desperately needs the light of peace and hope. The world continues to suffer from cruel acts of terrorism, senseless crimes, violence and brutality. ...