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  21 September 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - “WYO4children”: a musical project that heals wounds and opens people up Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - The orphans of the home run by the Missionary sisters of Charity in the diocese of Phu Cuong, in southern Vietnam, have learned that “music heals the wounds of the heart”, said Fr. ...
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  20 September 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï condemns attack on the Lebanese people Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "Sadness" for the bloody attack that hit "almost three thousand Lebanese citizens" by turning their pagers and walkie-talkies into explosive devices, and his firm condemnation of the Israeli atta ...
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  20 September 2024
  AFRICA/MALI - Terrorist attacks in Bamako have secular and religious backgrounds Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamist attacks carried out on September 17 in the Malian capital Bamako (see Fides, 18/9/2024) have various backgrounds, as local observers suspect. The attacks, which were claimed by the I ...
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  20 September 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missio Italia: Inauguration of the Missionary Education Center Verona (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, Saturday 21 September, the new headquarters of the Missionary Education Center “Centro Unitario per la Formazione Missionaria” (CUM) will be inaugurated in Verona. The Missio Italia ...
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  20 September 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Violence and social disintegration: young people determined to stay and preserve the presence of coexistence in Bossemptélé Bossemptélé (Agenzia Fides) - The Central African Republic (CAR) is still suffering the consequences of the civil war that began in 2013, which has caused deep social disintegration. According to UN reports, violence c ...
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  20 September 2024
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Elections in the midst of an economic and political crisis: the people demand change Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the popular protests that led to the dismissal of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in the midst of a serious economic crisis, Sri Lanka is preparing to elect a new president. ...
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  20 September 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy on WhatsApp Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Shagufta Kiran, a 40-year-old Pakistani Christian, was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to death under Article 295-C of the Penal Code for defaming the Prophet Muhammad through a messag ...
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  19 September 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Danger for Chinese Catholics: Bishops warn again about sects by Marta Zhao Ningbo (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholics must stay away from sects and their teachings, categorically refusing to attend their meetings. The baptized must persevere in the faith and adhere to the truths reve ...
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  19 September 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Wayanad landslide victims: joy for being alive and sadness for the current situation Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Although the government has provided a fixed rent and food subsidy to the people seriously affected on July 29 by the landslides that devastated the Wayanad district in Kerala, the population ...
• 19 September 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 3, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), appointed Rev. Father La ...
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  19 September 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Holy Year under the sign of ecumenism: Catholic Church wants to include other Christian denominations New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - It will be a Holy Year that will be lived in India under the sign of ecumenism: this is what the President of the Latin Rite Bishops' Conference (CCBI) in India and Archbishop of Goa and Daman ...
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  19 September 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop of Kitui: "The hope is that new leaders will emerge from the young generation" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The young people are taking to the streets to protest because they are disappointed by the unfulfilled promises of politicians," said the Bishop of Kitui, Joseph Maluki Mwongela, head of the la ...
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  18 September 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Churches damaged by typhoons, ecclesial communities launch aid and reconstruction initiatives Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - After Typhoon Yagi destroyed and damaged six churches on the island of Hainan, Typhoon Bebinca - the most powerful since 1949 - hit the Pudong area of Shanghai on September 16, affecting more t ...
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  18 September 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Church celebrates the month of martyrs in September Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "God has chosen his people on this earth to accept the Gospel and to flourish in faith. Let us entrust ourselves to the intercession of the blessed martyrs so that we may always live according to ...
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  18 September 2024
  AFRICA/MALI - Terrorist attacks in Bamako: a signal to the military juntas of Niger and Burkina? Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Local observers describe as "an unprecedented event" the double attack carried out yesterday, September 17, in Bamako, the capital of Mali, on the airport and a nearby gendarmerie base. The att ...