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  26 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "It is God who sends you to us": grassroots communities help families in need Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the uncertainty in which the country lives after the coup of July 26, we continue to work. Harvests throughout the Sahel are poor and the closure of the borders, especially those of Benin ...
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  26 September 2023
  ASIA/CINA - Father Flavio Belluomini, Archivist of the Dicastery for Evangelization, speaks at the Chinese Social Sciences Forum - 2023 Religious Studies Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Academics and scholars from different countries working in the field of religious studies took part in the 2023 International Conference of the Chinese Social Sciences Forum - 2023-Religious Stu ...
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  25 September 2023
  AFRICA/BENIN - The death of 35 people in a fire due to a fuel depot blast raises the issue of fuel smuggling Porto-Novo (Agenzia Fides) - At least 35 people (including two children) died in the explosion of a clandestine fuel smuggling depot, which occurred on September 23 in Sèmè-Kraké, a town located on the border between ...
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  25 September 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Father Nestor Fils-Aimé: “We only live on hope. Is not our God the God of the impossible?” Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The heavy state of instability, violence and terror that has continued to rage in Haiti for four long years also affects the Clerics of Saint-Viator missionaries present on the Caribbean ...
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  25 September 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Towards Jubilee 2025: "Quo vadis, India?" Goa (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in India joins the universal Church, with joy and with the responsibility of the evangelizing mission, in the preparation of the Jubilee of 2025, reflecting and making its own the central ...
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  23 September 2023
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - New priests for the Cambodian Church: a sign of growth and hope Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Cambodia is enriched with new priests: three new Cambodian priests, whose priestly ordination is celebrated today, September 23, are diocesan priests in the Apostoli ...
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  23 September 2023
  EUROPE/FRANCE - The Pope in Marseille: those who risk their lives in the Mediterranean cannot be rejected as "invaders" Marseille (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the multitudes of migrants trying to reach Europe, ports are closed and "people's fears" are fueled, with talk of an "invasion" and an "emergency". But "those who risk their lives a ...
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  22 September 2023
  CHINA/VATICAN - 5 years since the Agreement on the appointments of Chinese Bishops. The missionary Heyndrickx: let us support the Pope in dialogue with China by Gianni Valente Leuven (Agenzia Fides) - On September 22, 2018, exactly five years ago, representatives of the Holy See and the People's Republic of China signed in Beijing the Provisional Agreement on the procedures ...
• 22 September 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Maputo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Osório Citora Afonso, I.M.C., until now official at the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for first evangelization and the new particular ...
• 22 September 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Sivagangai Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 September, the Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Lourdu Anandam, of the clergy of Madurai, until now parish priest of the Holy Rosary parish, as bishop of the diocese of Sivagang ...
• 22 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of bishop of Zaria Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Habila Tyiakwonaboi Daboh, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Kaduna, until now rector of the Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna, as bishop o ...
• 22 September 2023
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Huê Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Joseph Đặng Đức Ngân, until now bishop of the diocese of Ðà Nang, Viêt Nam, as coadjutor archbishop of the archdiocese of Huê, Viêt Nam. Ar ...
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  22 September 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - How to be happy? An antidote to individualism to counter the suicide phenomenon Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Suicide is a tragedy in our society", says Father Cho Seung-hyeon, a priest and journalist, columnist for 'CPBC Press Weekly', a printed and online weekly published by the Commission for Social ...
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  22 September 2023
  OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - A relic of Saint Francis to support peacemakers: the Saint in the Catholic community of the Leeward Islands Uturoa (Agenzia Fides) - More than eighty participants committed to Christian life in the Raromatai archipelago, the Leeward Islands, gathered on the central island, Raiatea, from Sunday, September 17 to Wednesday, Septe ...
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  22 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnapped Catholic priest regains freedom Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Last Sunday, September 17, Father Marcellinus Obioma Okide, who serves as a parish priest at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Amofia-Agu Affa, Udi Local Government Area, was abducted alongside six ...