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  19 December 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - Cardinal Njue: "It is urgent to speedily investigate the death of Parish Priest, Rev. Fr. John Njoroge Muhia Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We need to clarify the circumstances and reasons of the murder of Fr. John Njoroge Muhia killed on December 10th", said Cardinal Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi, during Fr. Njoroge’s funeral Mass ...
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  19 December 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - For Christians a Christmas under impressive security measures Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Over 1,500 policemen are employed in the twin cities of Islamabad-Rawalpindi to guarantee the security of churches, neighborhoods and Christian institutions, during the Christmas period. Simil ...
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  19 December 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Parliament rejects the appointment of Christian Hana Emmanuel as minister for refugees and migrants Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The House of Representatives of Iraq, called to express itself on the appointment of three ministers chosen by Premier Adel Abdul Mahdi to complete his cabinet of government, rejected the candid ...
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  19 December 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Bishops' appeal for Christmas: "Let's find refugees a home" Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Enough is enough. It is time to find these people a home and to definitively end the intolerable situation": says the Archbishop of Brisbane, Mark Coleridge, President of the Australian B ...
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  18 December 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The diocese of Amboina is committed to interreligious dialogue in the Moluccas Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - Nurturing and promoting inter-religious dialogue is the way to build social harmony and heal the wounds of war: says to Agenzia Fides Bishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi, at the head of the diocese of ...
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  18 December 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Mission: One heart Many voices, Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission: Mission: One heart Many voices" is the title of the missionary conference to be held in Sydney from 13 to 15 May 2019, organized by "Catholic Mission", the National Directorate of the P ...
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  18 December 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Security in Guerrero cannot be entrusted to armed civilians, it is urgent to create a "national police" Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) - The security in the state of Guerrero cannot be left "in the hands of armed civilians", it is necessary to create a national police that is militarized, to ensure the safety of citizens: the Ar ...
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  18 December 2018
  ASIA/SYRIA - From pain to hope. The Christmas of the monastic community of Deir Mar Musa Nebek (Agenzia Fides) - Pain (alam) and hope (amal) are two words composed in Arabic "from identical letters but with a completely different meaning: two words however closely linked by a bond that manifests itself in a ...
• 18 December 2018
  AMERICA/ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA - Appointment of the Bishop of Saint John's Basseterre Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Robert A. Llanos, currently Auxiliary Bishop of Port of Spain and Apostolic Administrator of Saint John's Basseterre as Bishop of Saint John' ...
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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 ...