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  19 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Anglican Bishop: "Christians are being put to the test, the God-with-us will console us" Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - The greatest good to protect in the country is peace. This is what Methodist Bishop Sadiq Daniel, at the head of the Protestant community in the provinces of Sindh and Beluchistan stated in the a ...
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  19 December 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Threats of Hindu extremists to Christian schools in view of Christmas Agra (Agenzia Fides) - It is unacceptable that national Hindu right-wing groups keep on threatening Christians ahead of Christmas, say Church leaders in India. Days ago the "Hindu Jagran Manch" extremist group warned the ...
• 19 December 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Mgr. Esteban Lo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 6 June 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Mgr. Esteban Lo, LRMI (Lorenzo Ruiz Mission Institute), of the Archdio ...
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  18 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Bishops: "The attack on Quetta is inhumane; let us pray for peace" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The massacres of innocent lives increase in Pakistan. Let us pray to our Lord Jesus Christ so that, as a nation, he can give us strength, wisdom, tolerance and peace. May God give the victims ...
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  18 December 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In Quetta the funerals of Christians, victims of the attack that "wants to destabilize Pakistan" Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - A crowd of over 1,500 Christians from all over Pakistan, members of the five confessions present in the country, gathered today in the Christian cemetery of Quetta, for the funeral of the victims ...
• 18 December 2017
  ASIA LAOS - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Vientiane Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 16 December 2017, the Holy Father appointed Cardinal Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, I.V.D., currently Apostolic Vicar of Paksé, as Apostolic Vicar of Vientiane (Laos). (SL) (Agenzia F ...
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  18 December 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Pakistan: protection and full citizenship for religious minorities There is not only terrorist violence, gratuitous and destructive that affect religious minorities in Pakistan. The attack on the Methodist Church in Quetta brings to light the difficult condition of religious minorities ...
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  15 December 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - The Amazon and its inhabitants are protagonists of the Pope’s visit to Peru Puerto Maldonado (Peru) - The Amazon will be protagonist in the next apostolic visit of Pope Francis to Peru (18-21 January 2018). "For one day, January 19, Puerto Maldonado will be transformed into a large ecological su ...
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  15 December 2017
  VATICAN - Archbishop Dal Toso: "Mission is the thermometer of the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "When announcing the Kingdom of God, Jesus recalls that the Kingdom belongs to God: as Benedict XVI observes in his trilogy about Jesus, it is about a subjective genitive. The Kingdom does ...
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  15 December 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The sums paid to traffickers, to end up becoming slaves in Libya, could have created jobs in Nigeria" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - It is necessary to invest in Nigeria to create jobs, as well as to start effective campaigns to discourage Nigerians to try their luck in Europe by putting themselves in the hands of unscrupulous ...
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  15 December 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian refugees are "the undesirables", says Maronite Archbishop Nassar Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Refugees of the Syrian conflict "are crushed between two walls: they cannot go home, because the streets are blocked and their houses are in ruins, on the other hand the world despises them and ...
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  15 December 2017
  EUROPE/POLAND - The evangelization of the world entrusted to Our Lady of Czestochowa Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – To deepen the missionary spirit and entrust the missionary work of the Church to Mary's motherly protection: with this spirit over 400 people attended the evening prayer vigil for the evan ...
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  14 December 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Two dancers of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe killed, meaningless violence Ciudad Juárez (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no respect for anyone, it is the extreme of evil, how dare they?" asked the Bishop of the diocese of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (Mexico), Mgr. José Guadalupe Torres Campos, in a ...
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  14 December 2017
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Evangelical presence of the Barnabites and silent witness Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The mission of Catholics in Afghanistan is based on a particularity: it is almost exclusively made of silent testimony. When one is active in faith, there is no need for words. But let us ...
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  14 December 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - A school of agribusiness for young entrepreneurs, with the contribution of the Church Alito (Agenzia Fides) - An agribusiness project, with a professional training school dedicated to the agriculture and breeding sectors: this is the initiative desired by Alito, in the diocese of Lira, in northern Uganda, ...