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  3 September 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - "My father catechist": a mission carried out with joy, dedication and passion Nyangusu (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Ruth Bwaru Joseph, of the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, SSPC, originally from Kenya, shares the testimony of faith received from her father, Joseph, a catechist for 25 years, a ...
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  3 September 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Attack on a convoy of civilians in the east of the country by alleged members of the Islamic State Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Islamists of DAECH-DRC ambushed 14 cars and 2 large trucks on the morning of September 1 around 10 am local time, in Ofaye, on the Komanda-Eringeti road (RN4) in the Territory of Irumu". T ...
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  3 September 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Latin Patriarchate and University of Bethlehem collaborate to train catechists and fight unemployment among Palestinian youth Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - In the Holy Land, the pandemic crisis, among the side effects caused by Covid-19, has also resulted in a sharp rise in unemployment rates that have particularly affected young Palestinians. Fa ...
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  2 September 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Catholic Church celebrates the Time of Creation in the spirit of Laudato Sì Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Philippines lives and celebrates the "Time of Creation" with full involvement. The Filipino Bishops exhorted priests, nuns, laity, families, communities and Catholic mo ...
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  2 September 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Request for investigations into the massacre of 13 indigenous people Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "We can, without exclusion, stop, speak, correct, forgive ourselves, on the basis of the fundamental right to truth (...), establish a document that defines the fundamental rules, minimum and ...
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  2 September 2021
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - No to euthanasia, "compassion never kills": petition by Catholics and street demonstrations Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) – To reject the bill on euthanasia and assisted suicide: this is what a petition launched by the Australian Catholics is asking for and which will be presented to the Parliament of the Australi ...
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  2 September 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The government rejects the reactivation of the migrant protection protocol, which violates the rights of asylum seekers Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Government of Mexico must maintain a position that, while respectful, must be firm, clear and of absolute rejection of the intention to reactivate the 'Stay in Mexico' program": is the ...
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  2 September 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 73 school pupils kidnapped; the Bishops: "Too many kidnappings of children. We risk a traumatized generation of young people" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The abductions of school children present us with the prospects of a traumatized generation of young people". The words of the Bishops of Nigeria resound as a grave warning after the kidnapping, ...
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  2 September 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Solar panels at the University of Bethlehem and in Catholic schools, to guard the "common home" and concentrate resources in educational activities Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - While the "Time of Creation" opens again this year, a period of the year in which Christians of different confessions around the world are invited to pray and work together for the custody of ...
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  1 September 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A priest killed in the state of Morelos Galeana (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of August 31, the lifeless body of Mexican priest José Guadalupe Popoca was found in the parish of San Nicolás de Bari, in the town of Galeana, municipality of Zacatepec, in the ...
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  1 September 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Burmese army soldiers occupy and desecrate two churches Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese army has occupied and profaned two churches, the Catholic church of St. John and a Baptist church, in the village of Chat, in the municipality of Mindat, in the Burmese state of Chin, ...
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  1 September 2021
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Vicar General of the diocese of Mamfe kidnapped last Sunday has been released Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The Vicar General of the diocese of Mamfe, in the south-west of Cameroon, was released without paying the ransom, kidnapped on Sunday, August 29 (see Fides, 31/8/2021). This was announced yeste ...
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  1 September 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - On January 22, the beatification of the four martyrs Rutilio Grande, Manuel Solórzano, Nelson Rutilio Lemus Chávez and Cosma Spessotto San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Salvadoran Catholic Church has announced that the Beatification of the Salvadoran martyrs Father Rutilio Grande, Jesuit Manuel Solórzano and Nelson Rutilio Lemus Chávez, lay people, a ...
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  1 September 2021
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Catechists in Africa: reference point for Christians of small communities Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "In Africa I would never have been able to carry out my missionary service without the help and support of so many catechists", said Fr. Walter Maccalli in reference to the Motu Proprio “Antiquum ...
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  1 September 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - September: from "Month of the Bible" to "Month of the Word" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The National Commission for Biblical Animation of Pastoral Care in Chile, has decided this year to change the name of the traditional "Month of the Bible", which is celebrated in September in v ...