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  18 September 2021
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Pontifical Mission Societies prepare the 2022 Jubilees: Synod of Children, Pilgrimage of the Living Rosary, Encounter of young people Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - The preparation of the important missionary Jubilees planned for 2022 was the main theme of the autumn meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) and other missionary realities in Pol ...
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  18 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - The missionary must be the image of Jesus: 'My God, how good you are. The life and message of Charles de Foucauld' Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The missionary must be the image of Jesus, conform to Jesus, externally and internally through imitation", writes Fr. Andrea Mandonico, General Archivist of the Society for African Missions, in a ...
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  18 September 2021
  VATICAN - Cardinal Van Thuan, "man who built the Church" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Following the example of Francis of Assisi, Cardinal Van Thuan placed the gift of his person and of his own life, recognizing himself as a creature of God, as stones to build the holy edifice of th ...
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  18 September 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Catholic University donates medical devices to the Nguludi Mission Hospital Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "As Catholic University of Malawi (CUNIMA) we have always had a good relationship of collaboration with the St. Joseph-Nguludi Mission Hospital, since the beginning in 2006", said CUNIMA chance ...
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  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Erwin Tanner-Tiziani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 30, 2021, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Mr. Erwin Tanner-Tiziani as National Director of the Pontifical Mi ...
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  18 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Pope Francis to the Church of Rome: Mission is the work of the Holy Spirit, beware of the risks of a "do-it-yourself" Church Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church is by nature synodal, and fulfills her mission only if she obediently follows the actual and effective action of the Holy Spirit, as we read in the Acts of the Apostles. It is only in th ...
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  17 September 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "Marriage encounter": Christian spouses rediscover the richness of the Sacrament Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Married life is a life of patience, forgiveness and listening. It is a life of mutual enrichment, thanks to the presence and strength that Jesus Christ gives. It is a long journey together, enligh ...
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  17 September 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "The cry of the communities has not been heard, violations of human rights increase": new appeals for Chocó Cali (Agenzia Fides) - "We join the concerns and appeals that the Church and ethnic and territorial organizations have launched at various times. The dramatic reality that the indigenous and Afro-descendant communities l ...
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  17 September 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Floods in central Vietnam: God's people take refuge under the mantle of Mary Da Nang (Agenzia Fides) - The tropical storm Con Son has hit the central coastal provinces of Vietnam, and many places in the region have put in place plans to deal with the fifth tropical storm of 2021 that has brought ...
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  17 September 2021
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Renewing the common home: the bishops inaugurate the time of Creation 2021 Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "There are many people who do not have food or water due to the damage to the environment. Urgent action is needed to renew our common home", said Father Gabriel Mapulanga in the course of his ho ...
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  17 September 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops on proposals regarding immigration: "We cannot persist in relegating these members of our society to the margins" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Satisfaction was expressed by the Commission for Migration of the Bishops' Conference of the United States of America (USCCB), on the proposal to include in the forthcoming budget reconciliat ...
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  17 September 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A documentary on the friendship between Cardinal Nzapalainga and Imam Layama Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Sìrìrì (peace in the Sango language), the cardinal et l’imam". This is the title of the documentary made by Franco-Swiss director Manuel von Stürler, on the deep bond between Cardinal Dieud ...
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  17 September 2021
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to Movements and new ecclesial communities: humility and gratuitousness so as not to suffocate the gifts of the Spirit Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We must understand that evangelization is a mandate that comes from Baptism, the Baptism that makes us priests together, in the priesthood of Christ: the priestly population. And we must not wait ...
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  16 September 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops of Northern Luzon: amid assassinations, corruption, pandemic we find ourselves in the "valley of death" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "It is like being in the valley of death: the killing of drug addicts and opponents; victims of the pandemic; death from hardship due to a visionless government and blatant corruption that seems ...
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  16 September 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Not only are migrants not being listened to, the people of Tapachula are not being listened to" denounces Bishop Calderón Calderón Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of migrants in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas protested yesterday, September 15, against the country's immigration policies, which thwarted their efforts to travel to the Unite ...