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  11 November 2019
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Archbishop Dal Toso at the closing of the Extraordinary Missionary Month: Africa is a big hope for the Church Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - With the hope that the missionary seeds planted during the Extraordinary Missionary Month continue to germinate and bear fruits in missionary apostolate, Archbishop Giampietro Dal Toso, Pr ...
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  11 November 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: three days of fasting to call for peace to return in Iraq Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - From Monday 11 to Wednesday 13 November "the sons and daughters" of the Chaldean Church are called to fast and pray God for the gift of peace and for the return to stability in Iraq. This was as ...
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  11 November 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - After the resignation of the President, appeal for non-violence and a peaceful constitutional solution La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of people took to the streets a few hours ago in La Paz to celebrate the resignation of Bolivian president Evo Morales, at the end of the protests and disputes over the results of the O ...
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  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Resignation and succession of Archbishop of Abuja, Nigeria Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 November 2019, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Abuja (Nigeria), presented by His Eminence Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan. He i ...
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  9 November 2019
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - The Bishops: "We need political leaders who work coherently and for the people" San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "The disadvantage of the country, from violence in the streets to government crisis, show the situation in which we live ... despite the situation we have the opportunity to build the country w ...
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  9 November 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic priest: violent fanaticism and occultism increase atheism and religious indifference among young people Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Only 33% of Egyptian youth consider the relationship with God really important, while the possibility of giving reasons with persuasive arguments of one’s own religious faith is shared only by 6 ...
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  9 November 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Evangelization and missionary activity: nuns at the forefront of women's education Bondoukou (Agenzia Fides) - "We have become what we are thanks to them. Until they arrived in our country, education for girls was very complicated", said one of the first students of the Catholic College of Transua in t ...
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  9 November 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops' message: "to make a more missionary and merciful Church a reality" Luque (Agenzia Fides) - "We Pastors, together with consecrated persons, priests, seminarians and consecrated lay people, want to make a more missionary and merciful Church become a reality": say the Bishops of Paraguay i ...
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  9 November 2019
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The "School of Peace" expands, while 3.7 million children are without school Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - The "Tangi Kalay - School of Peace", was established with the efforts of Italian Barnabite missionary, Father Giuseppe Moretti in Afghanistan and is one of the few "oases in the desert" for the li ...
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  8 November 2019
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Youth and new evangelization: the "Youcat" International Congress Iloilo (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelization in the contemporary world: new roads, new forms, new potentials: with this spirit hundreds of "young missionaries" from different countries are attending the 2nd International "YO ...
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  8 November 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Set aside sectoral interests: Bishops and UN representative call for an end to violence Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santa Cruz, Mgr. Sergio Gualberti, and the Archbishop of Cochabamba, Oscar Omar Aparicio, together with their Auxiliaries, have invited to establish a sincere dialogue betwe ...
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  8 November 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - The "misleading representations" of the initiatives of the Chaldean Patriarch regarding the protests in the streets have been rejected Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The recent meetings of Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako with the participants in the protest demonstrations taking place in Baghdad in no way expressed an "antagonistic" position of the lea ...
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  8 November 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Solidarity for West Papua: young people mobilize the Church and government authorities Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "How can we define ourselves as a Christian nation if we do not pay attention and help our neighbors?": Is the question raised during the debate on "Freedom for West Papua" by the students ...
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  8 November 2019
  VATICAN - The "red missionary thread" that links children and young people of the Holy Childhood Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In this edition "we would like to speak especially about them, the adolescents, an age that the Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI) does not seem to be engaged with in any evident manner, ...
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  8 November 2019
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Renewal and future projects of Caritas, at the service of the most vulnerable Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "It is autumn, but these days in Kazakhstan there is a beautiful air of spring, of rebirth. And we can really feel that something new is happening for the Caritas of our country": as Agenzia Fide ...