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  10 January 2018
  AMERICA/PERU - Fr. Dario Bossi: "Mining activities weigh on the lives of indigenous communities: the Pope will not be deaf to this problem" Madre de Dios (Agenzia Fides) - "The letter we sent to Pope Francis is very clear, as he goes into details, he explains to what extent the impact of mining affects the lives of the simplest and smallest, in particular th ...
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  10 January 2018
  AMERICA/CHILE - Executive secretary for the "Mapuche pastoral": we do not expect political solutions to our problems from the Pope Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Mapuche are waiting for Pope Francis "to bless us, to strengthen our faith". They hope his homilies will favor "social peace". But they do not expect political solutions from him to ...
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  9 January 2018
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Salvadorans without protection in America, the Church will not abandon separated families Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "The decision to terminate TPS for El Salvador is heartbreaking". As detailed in our recent delegation trip report to the region, El Salvador is currently not in a position to adequately hand ...
• 9 January 2018
  AMERICA/ANTILLE - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Esteban Kross Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 June 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Esteban Ramon Kross, of the diocesan clergy of Paramaribo (Suriname) a ...
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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 ...