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  21 October 2021
  VATICAN - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS - 2021 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, which this year celebrates its 95th anniversary on Sunday, October 24, 2021, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panora ...
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  21 October 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Preserving and increasing faith and traditions: the bishops inaugurate the works in view of the synod Kiyinda-Mityana (Agenzia Fides) - "In this synod on synodality Pope Francis has invited all of us bishops to be together as Christians and share the Gospel", said Msgr. Anthony Zziwa, bishop of the diocese of Kiyinda-Mit ...
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  21 October 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishopric of Talca ransacked and burned down: "violence does not solve Chile's problems" Talca (Agenzia Fides) - On the night of October 18, unknown persons ransacked and set fire to the premises of the Bishopric of the Diocese of Talca, which housed the Vicariate of Youth Ministry, the Vicariate of Social P ...
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  21 October 2021
  VATICAN - Archbishop Dal Toso: the missionary enthusiasm of a young woman, Pauline Jaricot, an example for today Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A reflection on the figure of Pauline Jaricot, the foundress of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, whose beatification in 2022 will take place within the framework of important a ...
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  21 October 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Post-election controversy over the distribution of seats reserved for Christian candidates Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the Iraqi parliamentary elections, which took place on Sunday, October 10, the foreseeable post-electoral controversies over the distribution of the 5 parliamentary seats reserv ...
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  21 October 2021
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle: the missionary tells "a love story" with Jesus Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot keep to ourselves the encounter with God who has touched our hearts and who has done marvelous works. Like the apostles, let us share the love that we have experienced. What w ...
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  20 October 2021
  AMERICA - "Synodal Church, missionary Church": dioceses of the continent united at the beginning of the synodal journey Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On October 16 and 17, in the cathedrals and parishes of most of the nations of America, the celebrations were held to start the diocesan stage of the Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bisho ...
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  20 October 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Politics is not war: this is the democracy we want Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The launch of the Party of African Peoples-Ivory Coast (Ppa-ci) promoted by former president of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo can be considered both a masterful lesson in politics and the seed sow ...
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  20 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Food crisis for the poor: Jesuit alarm for food security New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The fact that the poor have no food in India, despite the fact that the nation has plenty of it, is a patent injustice: highlights the Indian Jesuit Fr. Irudhaya Jothi SJ, scholar and promoter ...
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  20 October 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Justice and Peace" demands respect for the work of human rights defenders Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela denounced in a declaration, signed by its President, His Exc. Mgr. Roberto Lückert Leon, the arbitrary detention of th ...
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  20 October 2021
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The Apostolic Prefect: mission is nourished with the depth of faith Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - Moving from "promptness" to a dimension of greater "depth". This is the need for the near future for the Church in Mongolia, according to what was highlighted by Msgr. Giorgio Marengo, Apost ...
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  20 October 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Melkite Patriarch Youssef Absi: the Gospel can be proclaimed only for "a force that is not ours" Latakia (Agenzia Fides) - In the present time, in which faith "is dying out in many regions of the world", one cannot become and remain Christian by virtue of human strategies and formation courses. One can flourish and ...
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  19 October 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Indigenous peoples of the Amazon region demand protection of life and preservation of the "common home" Timbo de Betania (Agenzia Fides) - "In the face of the approaching threats, the indigenous peoples of the Amazon are committed to the preservation, conservation and protection of the territory, our 'common home', our Col ...
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  19 October 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Missionary-vocational expo in a context marked by the health crisis Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The third edition of the virtual missionary-vocation Expo will take place on October 23 and 24 on the occasion of World Mission Day and will be organized by the Direction of the Pontifical M ...
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  19 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop of Bangalore refuses to collect data on the activities of Christian missionaries Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian churches are critical of the plans of the government of the Indian state of Karnataka to conduct special research and collection of data on the activities of missionaries and emp ...