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  6 December 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Priest attacked in the cathedral with sulfuric acid Managua (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday 5 December in the afternoon, rev Mario Guevara, aged 59 vicar of Managua Cathedral, suffered a sulfuric acid attack when a 24 year old woman threw the acid on the priest’s fac ...
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  6 December 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Year of the Laity closes and lay mission in the society and civil participation begins. Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of the Laity "has been a time of grace dedicated to reflection on the mission of lay Catholics not only among and with the laity but together with the whole Church ", and it will co ...
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  6 December 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “In the name of God stop extrajudicial homicide”: bishop's message for Advent Manila (Agenzia Fides) - “Extrajudicial homicide is always wrong even when it means killing a criminal. This is our desperate plea at this time of Advent and Christmas: for the love of God, stop these murders! Let h ...
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  6 December 2018
  AFRICA - Missionaries at the service of the poorest and most rejected people carrying the good news of the Gospel Kara (Agenzia Fides) – “In the remote parts of our villages and cities in Africa we carry forward the cause of the Gospel, putting ourselves at the service of the poor and the marginalised”: Fides was told by I ...
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  6 December 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - “We must not lose our moral values if we are to live in a healthy society ” warn the Bishops Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – A society cannot be united if it loses its moral values. We learn from the Bible that Sodom and Gomorrah (Ezekiel 16:48-50) became a symbol of a decadent society, whose moral fabric was syst ...
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  6 December 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ -Christian woman candidate for Ministry of Refugees boycotted by Christian MPs Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – There is also the name of MS Hana Emmanuel Gorgis among the names that Iraqi Premier Adel Abdul Mahdi wishes to add to the list of ministers in the government in Iraq, still not complete a ...
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  5 December 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Congress of missionary communicators: all round evangelisation must use the media Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) – An intervention by the Archbishop of Aparecida, Mons. Orlando Brandes, opened in Brazil the first Congress of missionary communicators with the slogan “Evangelizing on the new Media fronti ...
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  5 December 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Silsilah Message for Advent: “Bearing witness to the faith in a spirit of dialogue” Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) – The season of Advent is a path of preparation for Christmas: a good time to reflect on the mission of Christians called to share their faith in a spirit of dialogue also with followers of ...
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  5 December 2018
  AFRICA/MALAWI - PMS meeting in view of preparations for Extraordinary Missionary Month in October 2019 Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- “As Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies you bear the burden of convincing priests, religious and laity in your local Churches to cooperate with the different mission activities pr ...
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  5 December 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - In Advent the local Church gives new impulse to campaign to abolish death penalty Seoul (Agenzia FIdes) – The Catholic Church in South Korea is giving new impulse during the period of Advent to the campaign to abolish the death penalty in the country. Fides heard from the Justice and Peace Co ...
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  5 December 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Copt Patriarch praises Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman and announces a visit to Arabia Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Saudi Arabia is an essential “pillar” of the Muslim Arab world and the recent meetings by the Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud at all levels are much appreciated because they reve ...
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  5 December 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAFRICA - The murderers of Alindao attack another camp run by the local Church Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Another displaced persons camp run by the local Church in Ippy south east Central African Republic, was attacked yesterday 4 December by men of the UPC ( Unité pour la Paix en Centrafrique) ...
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  4 December 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - Bishop of Niamey: “Fr Maccalli is alive and well”; we continue to pray for his release Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – “The Bishop of the diocese of Niamey, Mons. Djalwana Laurent Lompo, affirms that Fr. Pier Luigi Maccali, SMA missionary kidnapped on 17 September is alive and well. For security reasons he ...
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  4 December 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - Mission in Turkey, among Iraqi refugees, discovering the Gospel Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "When the Church opens for the good of others she flourishes, when she closes she dries up. The Church lives only when she goes out of herself, as the words of the Pope teach us ". Brother Jihad Yo ...
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  4 December 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church in Pakistan founded on the Eucharist Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We are called to break ourselves like bread for others, imitating Christ in the Eucharist. The Year of the Eucharist has strengthened our faith and we will gather the fruits in the years to come ...