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  2 October 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Young migrants and missionaries from East Timor Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "The young migrants who emigrate from East Timor to Korea in search of work and a better life are also missionaries who bring with them a precious heritage of faith and live their Christian witnes ...
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  2 October 2024
  VATICAN - The Pope opens the Synod and announces a day of prayer and fasting for peace on October 7 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Exactly one year after the renewed conflict in the Holy Land between Israel and Palestine, Pope Francis, during the opening Mass of the XVI General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, calls f ...
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  2 October 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops' Conference: Priests should not enter politics without proper authorization Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Priests should not enter politics. This was confirmed by the Bishops' Conference of Nigeria in a statement published on October 1st and signed by the President of the Bishops' Conference of Nigeri ...
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  2 October 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - The commitment of Salesian missionaries among children: overcoming differences that lead to violence Sarh (Agenzia Fides) - "School is a place of mutual respect and the ability to be together". From Sarh, in Chad, in the heart of Africa, Father Jean Claude Kikondee, a Salesian missionary from Cameroon, talks about the ...
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  2 October 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - “New Order” in the Middle East: Basis for the wars of the last 20 years by Luca Mainoldi Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "New Order" was the name of the operation that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah: the name given by the Netanyahu government to the Israeli operation to kill Nasrallah ...
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  1 October 2024
  VATICAN/PENITENTIAL VIGIL - The Pope: "We cannot resolve conflicts by fueling violence" by Samuele Massimi and Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Making peace "requires courage". And it also takes courage to "say yes to encounter and no to confrontation; yes to respect for pacts and no to provo ...
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  1 October 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop of Lagos: "The best gift for the 64th anniversary of Independence is to improve the living conditions of Nigerians" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "As we celebrate the 64th anniversary of our country's independence, one cannot help but wonder how much there is to celebrate, given the many hardships that Nigerians face today," said the Archbi ...
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  1 October 2024
  ASIA/NEPAL - Floods and thousands of displaced people. Apostolic Pro-Vicar: "The situation is critical" Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - "It rained for three days, causing flooding in many small rivers and streams. These were the heaviest rains Nepal has experienced in recent decades," said Father Silas Bogati, Apostolic Pro-Vi ...
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  1 October 2024
  VATICAN - The Holy Father appoints the Rev. Msgr. Sangalli Adjunct Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Msgr. Samuele Sangalli, hitherto secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization in the Section for First Evangelization and the new particular Chur ...
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  1 October 2024
  MISSIONARY OCTOBER 2024 - Cardinal Marengo: the novelty of the first proclamation of the Gospel should not be 'lost' in generic speeches on mission by Gianni Valente Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a specificity in the first proclamation of the Gospel. And when I reflect on the mission of the Church, I would like to defend this specificity ", which "shoul ...
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  30 September 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Before leaving for Rome: Bishop Vincent Zhan Silu blesses the foundation stone for the construction of a new church Mindong (Agenzia Fides) - "Immense gratitude to the Lord" is what the Bishop of the Diocese of Funing/Mindong, Vincent Zhan Silu, expressed before leaving for Rome for the laying of the foundation stone of the new church ...
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  30 September 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Radio Maria/Goma coordinator murdered Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The coordinator of Radio Maria/Goma, Edmond Bahati Monja, has been murdered. The murder occurred on the evening of September 27. The Catholic radio journalist was shot dead by armed men near h ...
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  30 September 2024
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Synod, the Bishop of Leena: "The problems of the West are not ours" by Fabio Beretta Leena (Agenzia Fides) - Low levels of education, lack of services, leprosy, the spread of aggressive sects: these are just some of the problems that the Catholic community in Angola faces on a daily b ...
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  29 September 2024
  APOSTOLIC JOURNEY - Pope Francis in Belgium: “Mission is a gift and not a title of boasting” Bruxelles (Agenzia Fides) - "We all received a mission in the Church through baptism. But this mission is a gift and not a reason to boast," said Pope Francis during the Holy Mass at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels ...
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  29 September 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Cardinal Raï on the assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: "It has opened a wound in the hearts of the Lebanese" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "The assassination of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has opened a wound in the hearts of the Lebanese". But "the incessant martyrdom of Christian and Muslim leaders who believed in the cause of truth, ...