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  10 November 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Cardinal Ranjith: "The situation in the country is difficult, the Church is committed to the common good" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "Given the serious political, social and economic problems that Sri Lanka has had to contend with in recent years, the situation has not improved. In order to keep popular discontent under contr ...
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  10 November 2023
  AFRICA/TOGO - Ministry of Youth warns against drug use in schools Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - The Togolese Ministry of Youth is sounding the alarm and deploring the increasing drug use among young people between 12 and 24 years old. Since the beginning of the year, the government has redou ...
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  10 November 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Fifth National Missionary Congress: From the Amazon Region to the ends of the world Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - In Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, around 1,200 people from all over Brazil have gathered to take part in the Fifth National Missionary Congress, which begins today and runs until N ...
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  10 November 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The President of the Bishops' Conference: "The so-called 'energy transition' is causing enormous environmental damage in my Country" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Wars for the mineral resources of the energy transition, exploitation of Congolese resources for a supposed global ecologism that in reality causes enormous damage to the environment and people ...
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  9 November 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Parish priest again warns Catholics about “false priests” Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Once again Ugandan Catholics are warned about the presence of "false priests" in the country's dioceses. After the previous warning issued at the beginning of September in the ecclesiastical pro ...
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  9 November 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father Neuhaus: the political strategies and chimeras that sow death in the land of Jesus by Gianni Valente Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The renewed atrocities that are spreading death and pain in the land of Jesus have deep roots. And the catastrophe is also fueled by the toxic mix of “politics based on ...
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  9 November 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “Year of the Laity” in Islamabad: The mission of believers in church and society Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The pastoral year 2023-2024, which begins next November 26 with the Feast of Christ the King, will be the "Year of the Laity" in the Archdiocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi. Archbishop Joseph Arsh ...
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  9 November 2023
  AMERICA/CUBA - "The Church is where the Christian is and the Lord is there": Jubilee Year for the fifth centenary of the first diocese on Cuban soil Santiago de Cuba (Agenzia Fides) - Last October 22 marked a historical milestone for the Cuban population with the opening of the Jubilee Year for the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Santiago de Cuba, ...
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  8 November 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Madeleine Delbrêl. The joy of faith among non-believers Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The witnesses and confessors of the faith in Christ are always called to live in their time, to "share life with others, to mingle with the joys and sorrows of the world". And also to be in contact ...
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  8 November 2023
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Massacre in southwest Cameroon on the anniversary of President Biya's rise to power Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - At least 25 people were killed in western Cameroon on November 6, the day President Paul Biya celebrated the 41st anniversary of his rise to power. Paul Biya took control of Cameroon on Novembe ...
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  8 November 2023
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Head of the “Catholic Immaculate Conception” clinic in Njmafor in Bamenda murdered Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - A member of the Congregation of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception was killed in a road attack in Cameroon. Brother Cyprian Ngeh was stabbed to death in the Ndamukong district of Bamenda o ...
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  8 November 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Ten years after typhoon Yolanda, commemoration, prayer and a warning for climate change Borongan (Agenzia Fides) - Ten years after tropical cyclone Yolanda (or Typhoon Haiyan) which devastated the east and central Philippines on November 8, 2013, killing more than 7,000 people and affecting more than 16 mi ...
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  7 November 2023
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Between persecution and “salvation”: The Vicar Apostolic of Northern Arabia on the history of the Trinitarians Manama (Agenzia Fides) - "I am the first Trinitarian to arrive in Bahrain. Only after me did the others come and we founded a community," said Vicar Apostolic of Northern Arabia Aldo Berardi, first bishop of the Order of ...
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  7 November 2023
  AFRICA/GHANA - Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga: “Recent clashes in northern Ghana must be clarified” Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "The Upper East Regional Peace Council and the Catholic Diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga view with great concern the recent events in Garu involving the military and residents and condemn the brutal ...
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  7 November 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Conflict between Tiv and Jukun in Wukari: Church efforts for peace Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A cross intended to give hope to peoples marked by centuries of conflict was created for this purpose by Father Anthony Odey of his parish "St. James" in Taraba State (eastern Nigeria), which is p ...