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  6 September 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Independence Day "should make us recognize that we are all brothers, including those with whom we disagree" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB), Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo, urged Christians "not to be indifferent" to social exclusion and stressed the importance of pub ...
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  6 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionaries who leave, leave again and return: it is always mission time Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - "To be on mission is to be willing to think as Christ does" said Pope Francis in the message for World Mission Day published on 6 January 2021. "It is always mission time, but September, the start ...
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  6 September 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - ASEAN appeal for humanitarian truce; petition to the UN to confirm the ambassador New York (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar's military rulers have agreed to an "Association of Southeast Asian Nations" (ASEAN) call for a ceasefire until the end of 2021. The truce will serve to ensure distribution of humanitar ...
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  6 September 2021
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Coup: "Calm situation in Conakry; waiting for the meeting between the coup leaders and the deposed ministers" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm in Conakry. Traffic in the city is normal and people have gone to work like every day", Church from the capital of Guinea sources told Fides, where yesterday, Sunday, Sept ...
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  6 September 2021
  VATICAN - Third edition of the multimedia course: "Communication is Mission" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The third edition of the multimedia training course entitled "Communication is Mission", has been approved and is being prepared, promoted by the Faculty of Institutional Social Communicati ...
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  6 September 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - President Aoun announces an "emergency meeting" to address the crisis in non-state schools Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The systemic crisis in which Lebanon seems to be sinking is having devastating effects on non-state schools, mostly of ecclesial origin, on which the entire national education system is based. In ...
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  4 September 2021
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Bishop of Wa: "Let's not isolate the mentally disabled" Wa (Agenzia Fides) - “In December 2020, while I was distributing meals together with the volunteers, I met Agostino and Mary. Agostino, lived on the street, used cocaine and alcohol. . Mary, married and mother of three ...
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  4 September 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Three weeks after the earthquake, help is still urgent; wave of solidarity among Haitian Catholics Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Three weeks after the terrible earthquake that struck Haiti on August 14, which caused more than 2,000 deaths and hundreds of injured, the population continues to suffer from a lack of as ...
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  4 September 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - The bells of Mosul ring again Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The appointment is set for Tuesday September 14, the day on which the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is celebrated, a solemnity particularly dear to the Christian communities present in Iraq. On tha ...
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  4 September 2021
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Virtual mode or in presence, young people celebrate their 42nd National Day Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - Around the slogan "He approached and walked with them", this weekend in most of the dioceses of Uruguay the 42nd National Youth Day (JNJ) is celebrated, in some dioceses in virtual mode and i ...
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  4 September 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Ending the Culture of Murder: Call for Peace by Religious Leaders in Western Equatoria Tombura (Agenzia Fides) - "We are horrified to learn that insecurity and acts of terror continue to increase in our State. We are all tired of this situation, we continue to live with dismay the massacre currently underw ...
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  4 September 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Biblical Month: Bishops urge the faithful to read, meditate and put into practice the Word of God Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The Word of God is a source of nourishment and spiritual growth. Its importance in our daily life obliges us to know it and to fully appreciate it. The Biblical Month, therefore, offers Cathol ...
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  3 September 2021
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Archbishop of Panama: "We have a corrupt society and no one takes the first step to transform it" Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Panama, Mgr. José Domingo Ulloa, made an energetic appeal to Panamanians to tackle and resolve the "great problem" of corruption that afflicts the country and society, and ...
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  3 September 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Vocations to priesthood and consecrated life shine among the darkness marked by Covid Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - 78 new priests were ordained, and about 250 men and women religious professed their perpetual vows during the summer of 2021: these vocations are good news and a sign of hope for the Church of Vie ...
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  3 September 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A week of meeting and dialogue on the building of peace in the country Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, September 5 the celebration of the annual "Week for Peace" begins in Colombia, which this year has the motto "Truth that we can". The Director of the National Secretariat for Social Pa ...