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  4 September 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The story of Paolo Dongdong: from an orphanage of Chinese nuns to the Paris Paralympic Games Ningjinxian (Agenzia Fides) - From an orphanage of Catholic nuns in the Chinese province of Hebei to the Paris Paralympic Games. This is the surprising story of Dongdong Paolo Camanni, a young Paralympic judo athlete who ...
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  3 September 2024
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - JNIM jihadists attack local self-defense groups Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Jihadist groups continue to spread fear and terror in Burkina Faso. After the massacre in the village of Barsalogho on August 24, in which at least 200 people died, on August 30 an attack on ...
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  3 September 2024
  Pope Francis’s trip to ‘Southeast Asia’ and the mission of the Church today by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - With the arrival in Jakarta of the flight that took off from Rome, Pope Francis' 45th international apostolic journey has begun. The Bishop of Rome, at almost 88 years of age, ...
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  3 September 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Indonesian Catholics: “Children of Saint Francis Xavier” by Paolo Affatato Denpasar (Agenzia Fides) - Many visitors and tourists in Bali, the Indonesian island popular with tourists from all over the world for its attractions, also stop at the Catholic church dedicated to S ...
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  2 September 2024
  EUROPE/ICELAND - Nordic countries hold webinar on the Pope's message for World Mission Day Reykjavik (Agenzia Fides) – Today at 6:00 pm (CET) the first webinar of the Nordic countries will be held on the Pope's message for the upcoming World Mission Sunday, entitled "Go and invite everyone to the banquet" (c ...
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  2 September 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The enthusiasm of hundreds of young lay volunteers, together with the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, await the arrival of Pope Francis Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis is about to begin his trip to Indonesia, where he will stay from 3 to 6 September 2024, marking the first stage of his tour of the Asia-Pacific region, which also includes visits to ...
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  2 September 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Contemplative nuns in Indonesia accompany Pope Francis' trip with Adoration Ruteng (Agenzia Fides) - At the Monastery of the Adoration of the Holy Trinity, on the slopes of Kuwu, on the outskirts of the city of Ruteng, on the Indonesian island of Flores, Eucharistic adoration is permanent and pr ...
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  2 September 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops: “foreign debt is a new form of slavery for present and future generations” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – “The debt burden has turned out to be a new form of enslavement if present and future generations” say the Bishops of Nigeria, in the statement published at the end of their second Plenary A ...
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  2 September 2024
  AFRICA/EGYPT - After reaching a military agreement with Somalia, Cairo warns Ethiopia about the filling of the Nile dam Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are ready to exercise our right to defend and protect the rights and interests of the Egyptian people, in accordance with the UN Charter." This is the warning issued by the Egyptian government ...
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  2 September 2024
  Pope Francis Enforcing Four Principles for Social Harmony During Asia-Pacific Apostolic Mission by Victor Gaetan*   Rome (Fides News Agency) - Pope Francis’s ambitious 4-country pilgrimage, September 2-13, will include countless, colorful encounters as young countries greet the pontiff and he, in turn, ...
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  31 August 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A priest from Jakarta and his flock: “We live the joy of the Gospel that Francis brings us” Jakarta (Fides News Agency) - "The figure is joy, contentment, cheer". Father Justin Solistiadi, 60-year-old vice-parish priest in the parish of Saint John Mary Vianney in the east of the capital, Jakarta, told Fides New ...
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  31 August 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Diocese of Lodwar, where the second largest refugee camp in Kenya lies Nairobi (Fides News Agency) – "My diocese is essentially an area for first evangelization that also houses over 250,000 refugees from neighboring countries, South Sudan, Sudan, Burundi, Uganda, Somalia, Ethiopia", Fide ...
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  31 August 2024
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - A Missionary among fellow prisoners: Ján Havlík is blessed by Chiara Dommarco Šaštín (Fides News Agency) - "Where is God in the darkness of history? Faith helps to acknowledge that He is here, writing his love story, "said Father Emil Hoffmann CM, vice postulator of the Ca ...
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  30 August 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Media attention and Indonesian books (of Muslim authorship as well) dedicated to the Pope; the special commitment of the Kompas group by Paolo Affatato Jakarta (Fides News Agency) - Indonesia's mass media are preparing for the Pope's visit as attention increases within the realm of culture and among the entire population for the pontiff's presence ...
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  30 August 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: The Pontifical Urban University "has an identity of its own" and should not be "blended" with other universities Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - "We do not live in a Christian society, but we are called to live as Christians in today’s pluralistic society." And a historical and prestigious institution such as the Pontifical Ur ...