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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 ...
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  6 November 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic religious leaders: "We defend the Prophet, but Asia Bibi is innocent" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "No one tolerates a blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad and we are ready to sacrifice our lives for him. But how can the Court ever punish a defendant when there is solid evidence of her innoc ...
• 5 November 2018
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Resignation of the Archbishop of Kinshasa and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 November 2018 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pas ...
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  5 November 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Pastoral care of human rights and indigenous peoples in Latin America: two meetings promoted by CELAM Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - Today two important meetings begin in Bogota, promoted by the departments of CELAM (Latin American Episcopal Council), which will focus their attention on the pastoral care of human rights and t ...
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  5 November 2018
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Fr. Scalese: "The path of dialogue is the only path for the future of the country" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "The future of Afghanistan is entrusted to a hope: that the forces in question are willing to carry out a targeted negotiation, on the one hand, to the renunciation of the use of Taliban force, on ...
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  5 November 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - After the massacre of pilgrims, the Copts will not cancel the November liturgies: "the new martyrs must be celebrated" Minya (Agenzia Fides) - After yet another massacre of Christian pilgrims by jihadist terrorism, the Copts will not close churches and will not follow the calls of those who invite to suspend ordinary liturgical and pasto ...
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  5 November 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Monsengwo, symbol of a committed African Church Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Cardinal Monsengwo has been until today the voice of an African Church that refuses to lose hope that the African people will not be sacrificed by politics; an African Church that does not rem ...