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  18 December 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Five priests killed in 2018, "but Central African priests do not run away because they are not mercenaries" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Central Africa seems to have become entangled in an inextricable tangle of foreign interference, non-fulfillment of the international community and inability of the local government" writes to A ...
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  18 December 2018
  ASIA/THAILAND - A missionary: "At Christmas the 'low profile' of Jesus, beyond the power of numbers" Lamphun (Agenzia Fides) - "In 2003, a minister from Thailand bought a 100 thousand euro car. In reality the car was worth 10 thousand but had the plate 'NG 9999'. Anyone here would pay out stratospheric figures for a tel ...
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  17 December 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Acts of vandalism in a Catholic church in Assam: alarm for Christmas Dibrugarh (Agenzia Fides) - "The polarization caused between religious communities is evident. First of all the objectives were foreigners, then Muslims, now Christians. In Uttar Pradesh, in Assam, in northern India, the ...
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  17 December 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The government of al-Sisi renovates and regulates over 500 churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the inauguration of the national social construction plan in recent days President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi renewed his commitment regarding the renovation of churches destroyed by ...
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  17 December 2018
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The preparation of the Extraordinary Missionary Month begins Toledo (Agenzia Fides) - The second edition of the missionary formation seminar «The joy of the Gospel» has begun, promoted by the diocesan direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain, which prepares p ...
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  17 December 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Fears are being accentuated over the vote of the 23rd December Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The elections of December 23rd in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are at risk, where on December 13th, 8,000 electronic voting machines were destroyed following the fire that broke out in ...
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  17 December 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - Father Gigi Maccalli's Christmas: his mission in Bomoanga has closed, but hope does not die Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Three months have gone by since the kidnapping of Father Pier Luigi Maccalli, a priest of the Society for African Missions, SMA (see Fides 18/9/2018). There is no news on the place where he is he ...
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  15 December 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne: “our mission is to minister to Australians who never come to church ” Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - “One of the main and most urgent challenges we face in Australia, and it is an urgent mission, is to reach those who claim to be Catholic but do not come to Church ”. Fides was talki ...
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  15 December 2018
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The elderly in Africa: Capuchin Centre for abandoned elderly people Huambo (Agenzia Fides) – The Capuchin friars run a special home for the elderly in Huambo. The home is a village of ten small homes each with three or four old inmates. The villagers have their own piece of land to c ...
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  15 December 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - Uzima Catholic University College excels in medical training for all Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The Catholic University College in Uzima was born of an idea of Emeritus Bishop Zacchaeus Okoth. Moved at the sight of needy suffering people, especially in the region of western Kenya, he ...
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  15 December 2018
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Fr. Moretti: Kabul vote invalidated grave step for the future of the country Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - “As yet there are no official positions from the United Nations, or the International Commission , so it is difficult to assess the situation but if the news of invalidity of the Kabul vote were ...
• 14 December 2018
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Rev. Mario Cassera confirmed PMS National Director Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 11 October 2018 confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in A ...
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  14 December 2018
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Advent: for baptised Christians time for spiritual renewal Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) – “Every year during the week before Christmas, we, the community of Catholic priests and religious in Uzbekistan, gather for two days of spiritual renewal and to exchange Christmas season ...
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  14 December 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishop Shukardin: "God chose us to spread the Gospel" Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - "God chose me and every baptized Christian to be a missionary, to be always ready to serve His people with humility, doing our best, listening and praying . My mission is to meet, to visit ...
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  14 December 2018
  AFRICA/RWANDA - The Catholic Church intends to regulate the sale of holy pictures Kibeho (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Rwanda says it intends to regulate the commerce of statues and holy pictures to prevent sales by non authorised persons. “we are forming a committee to examine the s ...