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  21 September 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Orlu: "The military assault on the market of Eke Ututu risks alienating the support of the State from the population" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop further killing of innocent people and destruction of livelihoods". This is the appeal launched by Msgr. Augustine Tochukwu Ukwuoma, Bishop of Orlu, in Imo State, in southern Nigeria, to the ...
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  21 September 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Sport for the promotion of women and dialogue: the nation greets the football champions Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Bangladesh women's national football team has won a historic victory, obtaining the first title of the "South Asian Football Federation Women's Cup, the continental cup of South Asia, with a 3 ...
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  20 September 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Unity between Chaldeans and Assyrians: "See nothing opposed to a united Church of the East" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "I have studied our Eastern heritage and the writings of the Fathers of the Church and I see nothing to prevent the union of the Chaldean Church and the Assyrian Church of the East under the nam ...
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  20 September 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - A ransom has been requested for the 9 people kidnapped from the church of Saint Mary Mamfe (Agenzia Fides) - The kidnapping of nine people in the attack on the church of Saint Mary, in the village of Nchang (see Fides, 19/9/2022) has been revealed a kidnapping for ransom. Msgr. Andrew Nkea Fuanya, Archbi ...
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  20 September 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Migrants: we need complete and fair immigration policies, no to xenophobia and discrimination in society Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "We call on the authorities to implement complete and fair immigration policies, which guarantee the human rights of these people on the move, at the same time we urge Peruvian society to put aside ...
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  20 September 2022
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - The Document on Human Fraternity will be studied in public schools Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The Document on Human Fraternity signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayyib in Abu Dhabi, in 2019 will be introduced in the curriculum of public schools of all levels in ...
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  19 September 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Bishops on the attack on the Catholic Church: among those who attack the churches there are also members of our communities Mamfe (Agenzia Fides) - The attack on the Catholic church of Saint Mary, in the village of Nchang (diocese of Mamfe) represents an "atrocious act". The perpetrators and instigators of this crime, in whatever country, mus ...
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  19 September 2022
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Bishops announce the second phase of the dialogue, a new step in the fight against inequality, social exclusion and corruption Panama (Agenzia Fides) - Before starting the second phase of the Single Dialogue Table, "which will be decisive in really outlining the path of transformation that our country needs", the Catholic Church team that accept ...
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  19 September 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The first Jesuit school in Bangladesh: "to educate the mind and heart" Gazipur (Agenzia Fides) - St. Xavier's International School in Kuchilabari, in the district of Gazipur, near Dhaka, the first Jesuit school in Bangladesh, has just opened its doors and started teaching activities for the ...
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  19 September 2022
  AMERICA - Solidarity of the Youth Ministry of Latin America with the Church of Nicaragua, "the young are the builders of the civilization of love" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Youth Ministry of Latin America and the Caribbean expresses to "the pilgrim Church of Nicaragua its feelings of closeness and solidarity in these moments when it suffers the harshest persecutio ...
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  19 September 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bail denied, Christian accused of blasphemy remains in prison Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Anwar Masih, a 57-year-old Christian in prison since June 2020 for blasphemy, "is an innocent man, victim of false accusations. We are surprised by the Court's decision to reject the request for ...
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  19 September 2022
  VATICAN - Artist Zhang: to paint Blessed Pope Luciani, I sought inspiration from the Bible and the cross Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "As a young man, my uncle wanted to be a missionary in China": This is what Lina Petri, niece of Pope Luciani, confided to Fides, on the eve of the solemn celebration of the beatification o ...
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  17 September 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The case of little Shenuda reopens the debate on the law regarding the personal status of Christians Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The controversial case of an abandoned child entrusted to a Coptic Christian family reopens the debate in Egypt on the draft law related to the personal status of Christians and family law, a proj ...
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  17 September 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Russian and Kazakh Catholics on the Pope's visit: "It was a great gift to see that the Pope loves us" Karaganda (Fides) - "I am happy that my parishioners had the opportunity to meet Pope Francis and Catholics from various other local Churches: Uzbeks, Russians and Catholics from other countries were present", said Fr. V ...
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  17 September 2022
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Three new Cambodian deacons for pastoral service Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "To give yourself all to God. Give all yourself to others. This is the vocation of the deacon", said Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler, Vicar Apostolic of Phnom Penh, expressing "great joy for t ...