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  7 December 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - San Felipe de Jesús Foundation pulls children away from streets, mafia and exploiters Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – Street children are "invisible: no one sees them", says Rev Francisco Crisanto, diocesan priest and director of the Foundation “Fondazione San Felipe de Jesús” FSFJ, which years a ...
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  7 December 2018
  ASIA/CHINA - Advent young people principal actors Xi An (Agenzia Fides) –Young members of the local Seraphim Movement were the principal actors on the solemnity of Christ the King and continue mission work through Advent in Christ the King parish in the archdiocese of ...
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  7 December 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Alindao Massacre; Cardinal Nzapalainga calls for an international inquiry Bangui (Agenzia Fides)-“We ask for an international enquiry into the massacre in Alindao” said Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, archbishop Bangui, who went to the town in south-east of Central Africa where on 1 ...
• 7 December 2018
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Bishop of Kaya resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Kaya (Burkina Faso), presented by Bishop Thomas Kaboré. The Holy Father appointed ...
• 7 December 2018
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Auxiliary Bishop of Maputo appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Pope Francis appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Maputo (Mozambique) Rev. António Juliasse Ferreira Sandramo of the clergy of Chimoio, until now parish pr ...
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  7 December 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - A remote diocese in the North East now has the largest church in the whole of Arunachal Pradesh Miao (Agenzia Fides) - In a small village in the district of Changlang, in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, north east India, the largest church in this Indian state was recently blessed and consecrated. Fides w ...
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  7 December 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Jesuit project: providing aid for migrants and fighting xenophobia Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Material assistance while fighting a cultural battle against rising xenophobia: these are the pillars of a project to assist Venezuelans fleeing their country launched by the Jesuits in Latin A ...
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  7 December 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Arshad: “May Baptised Christians be promoters of peace and hope” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – “Today there is urgent need of peace and hope in this city and indeed all over the country. The people are destitute and losing hope. As Christians in the Catholic diocese of Islamabad-R ...
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  7 December 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops say Syrian refugees must be repatriated without waiting for political solution to the conflict Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) – Lebanon “can no longer carry the weight of Syrian refugees”, and therefore it is necessary to “dissociate the political solution of the conflict in Syria from the necessary return o ...
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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 ...