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  17 January 2025
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops’ commitment for the Jubilee: “Country, person, truth, justice, rule of law, freedom and peace” Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Venezuela continues to be in one of the worst economic and social crises in history. Currently, 82% of Venezuelans live in poverty and 53% in extreme poverty. According to the United Nations Hig ...
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  17 January 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Militarization in West Papua: the disrupted life of indigenous peoples Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) - The sudden occupation of forest areas and villages of indigenous peoples by the massive deployment of military units in the Indonesian region of Papua is becoming a constant that marks the life ...
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  17 January 2025
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Parish priest Romanelli: the ceasefire in Gaza is a breath of fresh air. But the post-war period will be terrible Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - "The news of the ceasefire has sparked joy. Now we are all waiting for Sunday, when the ceasefire could begin, even if here in Gaza we know that it will be a difficult road," said the parish priest ...
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  17 January 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Tensions between Juba and Khartoum after the massacres of South Sudanese in Wad Madani Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, January 16, riots broke out in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, where demonstrators took to the streets to protest against the massacre of South Sudanese in neighboring Sudan. Some cr ...
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  17 January 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Diocesan Mission in San Roque: "God fixes everything, it is the experience of being missionaries" San Roque (Agenzia Fides) - More than 70 missionaries, including entire families, are participating in the Diocesan Mission 2025 of the Diocese of San Roque of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, which is taking place in the ...
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  16 January 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Devotion and pilgrimages: Holy Year for tea pickers on the hills of West Bengal Darjeeling (Agenzia Fides) - They are the farmers in the plantations that produce one of the most appreciated black teas in the world: in the hilly district of Darjeeling, a strip of land that is part of the Indian state ...
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  16 January 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Jubilee and 420 years of history: the church founded by Matteo Ricci celebrates its "Year of Grace" Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Supported by the light of faith lit 420 years ago by the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci, the church of Beijing dedicated to the Immaculate Conception has inaugurated a special "Year of Grace". ...
• 16 January 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Meru Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Jackson Murugara, I.M.C, until now parish priest and rector of the Consolata Shrine in the archdiocese of Nairobi, as coadjutor bishop of Meru ...
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  16 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 600 militiamen lay down their arms in Ituri Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In a significant step towards peace, at least 600 militiamen have decided to lay down their arms and join the Disarmament, Demobilization, Community Reintegration and Stabilization Program (P-D ...
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  16 January 2025
  VATICAN - Meeting on Blessed Paolo Manna at the Pontifical Urban College: "Go out of yourself" and follow and bear witness to Christ Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - He was a missionary in Burma (Myanmar), Superior General of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) and founder of the current Pontifical Missionary Union. These are the main b ...
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  16 January 2025
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Christmas in the Catholic community of Robe: “Recognizing the flesh of Christ in the most vulnerable brothers and sisters” Robe (Agenzia Fides) - “The Christmas season here in Ethiopia ends with the Feast of Timkat, the Ethiopian Orthodox Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which in the theology and ecclesial practice of the Orthodox Church ...
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  15 January 2025
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A priest from Colombo: in the face of rice shortage, "the government should adopt measures in the interest of the poor" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with difficulties and the crisis that is also affecting the staple food of the population, rice, it is necessary to "look for solutions that are not ideological, but purely in the interest ...
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  15 January 2025
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - The Pope: The world is full of children who are “sacrificial victims” of abuse and exploitation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Child abuse, of whatever nature, is a despicable act, it is a heinous act. It is not simply a blight on society, no, it is a crime! And it is a gross violation of God’s commandments. No ...
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  15 January 2025
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Bishops: "The tax burden is strangling the citizens" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "The tax burden is strangling the country," say the Bishops of Cameroon in the message published at the end of their Plenary Assembly in Buea, in the south-west of the country. "One of the ca ...
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  15 January 2025
  AFRICA/GHANA - Bishops call on new President to approve the Bill on family values Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "What we want is that it is made into a law," said the President of the Episcopal Conference of Ghana and Bishop of Sunyani, Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, during his meeting yesterday (January 14) with Pr ...