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  17 October 2023
  AFRICA - African governments spend a total of $1 billion per year on surveillance technologies: basic human rights at risk Rome (Agenzia Fides) - African governments spend a total of up to $1 billion a year on surveillance technologies, according to the report "Mapping the supply of surveillance technologies to Africa: case studies from Nige ...
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  17 October 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Praying and fasting for peace in Jerusalem: “Criticism of the Holy See is unjust” Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "We feel completely helpless. All we have left is prayer". This is how Father Frans Bouwen, a Belgian missionary of the White Fathers who has lived in Jerusalem for more than 50 years, describ ...
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  17 October 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Prayer for peace in Nazareth: God's mercy to find an antidote to hatred Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - In the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, the silent prayer of the faithful who join in the Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace in the Middle East, announced for today, October 17, by th ...
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  16 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA- The initiation of the cause for the beatification of Vivian Uchechi Ogu, a 14-year-old killed like St. Maria Goretti Abuja (Fides News Agency) - The Catholic Church in Nigeria has begun the process for the beatification and canonisation of 14-year-old Vivian Uchechi Ogu of Umuelem, Eniogu, who was shot dead Nov. 15, 2009, by gunmen for ...
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  16 October 2023
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Prayer for the reconciliation of the peoples of Israel and Palestine Phnom Penh (Fides News Agency) - A heartfelt, sincere and deeply sympathetic prayer for the Holy Land goes up to God from tiny Cambodia, a country in Southeast Asia where about 20,000 Catholics live, 0.13 percent of the ...
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  16 October 2023
  "C'est la confiance". The missionary soul of Therese of Lisieux in Pope Francis' new apostolic Exhortation by Gianni Valente Rome (Fides News Agency) - "It is confidence and nothing but confidence that must lead us to Love." The phrase taken from a letter of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, quoted in the ...
• 16 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Institution of the diocese of Katsina, Nigeria, and appointment of bishop Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Katsina, Nigeria, by dismembering the diocese of Sokoto, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan See of Kaduna. At the same time, the H ...
• 16 October 2023
  AMERICA/JAMAICA - Resignation of Bishop of Montego Bay Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On October 16, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Montego Bay, Jamaica, presented by Bishop Burchell Alexander McPherson. (EG) (Fid ...
• 16 October 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Resignation and appointment of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On October 16, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, presented by Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédr ...
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  14 October 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Mission is a give and take: Korean missionaries in Japan and Filipino church members in Korea Seoul (Fides News Agency) - Today, more than ever, the mission of evangelisation is based on a dynamic of give and take, as an exchange of gifts.This is also evident in the Catholic faith community in Korea, which today, ...
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  14 October 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - "It is not the poor who need us, but we who need the poor" Arua (Fides News Agency) - On Oct. 10, 2023 in Arua located in northern Uganda, about 25 members living the spirituality of St. Daniel Comboni gathered to thank God for giving the Church and the world the great missionar ...
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  13 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 40 days of fasting and prayer for the unity of the country Abuja (Fides News Agency) - "One of the things that caused tension during the last election period was the fact that many Christians in Nigeria were frightened by the idea that a President and a Vice-President, both Musl ...
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  13 October 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Amid dancing and sharing, the new pastoral year begins in the Bayaca Pygmy community Monasao (Fides News Agency) - "For the beginning of the catechesis for catechumens, young people and adults who, accompanied by our catechists, are preparing for the sacraments - in Monasao there are about 200, in the ot ...
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  13 October 2023
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Preparing for World Mission Sunday: Webinar on the Pope's message and "Missionary night" Taipei (Fides News agency) - With a webinar in Chinese on Pope Francis' message for World Mission Sunday 2023, the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Taiwan aims with this unprecedented event to ...
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  12 October 2023
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The prayer of the Rosary, a privileged way to prepare for World Mission Day Algiers (Fides News Agency) - The prayer of the Rosary is at the heart of the initiatives of preparation launched, among others, in the framework of a Week of World Mission (16 October - 22 October) by the Pontifical Mis ...