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  9 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Shaw: "It is urgent to promote peace and harmony in Pakistan" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us light the candle of peace, together with the hope to illuminate darkness and grow in faith. Let us pray so that this year may be full of peace, tolerance and solidarity among all religion ...
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  9 January 2018
  ASIA/SYRIA - Damascus, mortar shells on the Old City. Two churches hit Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - A mortar shell hit the Bab Tuma area on Monday, January 8, in the old city of Damascus where several churches are concentrated, causing massive damage to the Latin Catholic parish of the Conver ...
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  9 January 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnapped religious sisters released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are happy; to God be the glory", said Sister Agatha Osarekhoe, Superior General of the Sisters of the Eucharistic Heart of Christ, announcing the release of the three sisters and three reveren ...
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  9 January 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - An open letter from a Catholic priest: "Should Christians worship India as a Hindu goddess?" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Should Indian Christians worship the goddess India and offer Hindu rites in their churches or institutions?": This is the provocative question Catholic priest Fr. Anand Muttungal, theologian, ...
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  9 January 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal Nzapalainga: "2017 is a year marked by violence against the people and the Church" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Where are we going? What will the people of Central Africa in 2018 become?" asked Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, in his opening speech for the plenary meeting of the Bish ...
• 9 January 2018
  AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. José Mario Goncalves Moreira Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On May 15, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. José Mario Goncalves Moreira, of the diocesan clergy of Mindelo, as ...
• 8 January 2018
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of the Bishop of Chinhoyi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 30, 2017 the Holy Father appointed as bishop of Chinhoyi, (Zimbabwe), Rev. Fr. Raymond Tapiwa Mupa, C.Ss.R., currently regional Superior of the Redemptorist Fathers in Harare. ...
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  8 January 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Argentine faithful will be present during the Pope's visit to Chile Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Argentineans will greet and show their affection to Pope Francis in Chile. Proximity encourages compatriots of the first South American Pontiff to cross the Andes cordillera and partici ...
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  8 January 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - SOS Children's Villages reaffirms its commitment to children at risk Paris (Agenzia Fides) - SOS Children's Villages is a secular and apolitical organization. When asked about the reception of Christian children at the SOS Children's Village of Gode, Ethiopia (see Fides 4/1/2017), the NGO ...
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  8 January 2018
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Patriarch of Moscow: Russian intervention in Syria saved Christians from "genocide" Moscow (Agenzia Fides) – Thanks to Russia's military intervention in the Syrian conflict, the "genocide" of Christians was stopped. And now, the Russian Orthodox Church will take on the task of supporting the reconstru ...
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  8 January 2018
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Massacre in Casamance; the rebels "we have nothing to do with it, we reaffirm our commitment to peace" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The rebels of the Mouvement des Forces Démocratiques de Casamance (MFDC) stress that they have nothing to with the massacre of 13 young loggers killed on 6 January in a forest in this region of S ...
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  8 January 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - 300 thousand rosaries made with commitment and hope by prisoners for the Pope's visit Lima (Agenzia Fides) - For three months, prisoners of twelve Peruvian prisons made about 300 thousand rosaries. This initiative of the National Penitentiary Institute, in coordination with the Archdiocese of Lima, will ...
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  8 January 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Pinto: "The commitment of lay Catholics is the flagship for the Church in Pakistan" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic community in Pakistan is multilingual and multicultural, includes people from various tribes, ethnic groups, nations and cultures. The main challenge we face is the shortage of pri ...
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  8 January 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A priest engaged in peace attacked in Bangassou Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A priest engaged in dialogue and reconciliation in the Central African Republic was attacked by unknown persons. We are talking about Fr. Alain Blaise Bissialo, parish priest of the parish of Chr ...
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  8 January 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The country has been experiencing a critical social situation for 50 days: a new strike El Alto (Agenzia Fides) - "What are we doing to make the population receive true justice?" asked Mgr. Eugenio Scarpellini, Bishop of the diocese of El Alto and National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. "Befo ...