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  8 November 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi is out of jail, in a safe place Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Asia Bibi, the Christian woman condemned to death for blasphemy and acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on October 31, has been released from prison and is in a safe and secure place. P ...
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  8 November 2018
  ASIA/SYRIA- The Syrian Orthodox Patriarch inaugurates the Syrian University of Antioch Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The newly inaugurated university in the village of Maarat Saidnaya (27 km north of Damascus) on the initiative of the Syrian Orthodox Church and its Patriarch, Mor Ignatius Aphrem II is called ...
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  8 November 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Elections: a delegation of the Southern African Community pays tribute to the positive role of the Bishops Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The date of the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, scheduled for December 23rd, is approaching, and national and international initiatives are multiplying to ensure tha ...
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  7 November 2018
  AFRICA/MALAWI - New Media Center of Montfort Missionaries, at the service of evangelization Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – Montfort missionaries inaugurate a new multimedia center in Malawi. On Saturday 10 November, with a ceremony presided over by Mgr. Tarcisius Ziyaye Archbishop of Lilongwe, the activities of a ...
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  7 November 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mass at the border for the migrants who died while trying to cross it, while the caravan proceeds Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - While the caravan of Central American migrants crossing Mexico to reach the US border continues, a Mass was celebrated at the border for those who died trying to cross it. The celebration, ...
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  7 November 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - The man who murdered Don Andrea Santoro has been wounded Bodrum (Agenzia Fides) - Oguzhan Akdin, the 28-year-old man who in 2006 killed the Italian priest fidei donum don Andrea Santoro, was wounded, with his brother Alparslan Akdin, by gunshots following a fight with two peop ...
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  7 November 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Anglophone crisis: the students of the school released Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The 79 students of the Presbyterian Secondary School in Bamenda, the capital of one of the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon, were kidnapped on 5 November (see Fides 6/11/2018). Accordi ...
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  7 November 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cardinal Yeom: "I will accompany Pope Francis if he goes to North Korea" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "We will welcome a possible visit of the Pope to Pyongyang", said Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul, and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Pyongyang. "If the Pope visits N ...
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  7 November 2018
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Torture, ill-treatment against Christians, forced to renounce their faith Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) calls upon the Sudanese government to urgently investigate the reported torture and ill-treatment of 9 Christian citizens who were detai ...
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  7 November 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Pontifical Mission Societies pro Asia Bibi Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies are involved in prayer and in raising awareness on the case of Asia Bibi. "Missio Aachen", directorate of the PMS in Aachen, asks the faithful for a special praye ...
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  6 November 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The spiritual and structural growth of the small Catholic community Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "A mission can grow from different points of view, not only numerically: I believe that the Church of Kazakhstan in recent years is affected by a process of development that touches many aspects, ...
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  6 November 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Salesian Missionaries in the Amazon for over a century: experiences and perspectives Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - Starting from the Preparatory Document of the Synod for the Amazon, presented by the indigenous Salesian Justino Sarmento Rezendo, a hundred Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) and Daughters of Mary Hel ...
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  6 November 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Anglophone crisis: 79 students kidnapped in Bamenda; the Church organizes a fundraiser in Douala for displaced persons Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis is worsening in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, where yesterday, 5 November in Bamenda in the north-west of the country, 79 students and three heads of the local Presbyteri ...
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  6 November 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - A new secondary school in the former "village of lepers" Kolowaré (Agenzia Fides) - "We have officially begun the construction of a secondary school in Kolowaré. In 2007 we had already built a structure for junior school. Now the construction of the new institute begins": sa ...
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  6 November 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Assembly of Bishops: "courage and unity" to face today's complex and conflictual situations Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The 116th Plenary Assembly of the Argentinian Episcopate (CEA) is taking place, from November 5th to 9th in Pilar. As usual, there will be space in the work program to inform and discuss th ...