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  25 October 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Young people are entrusted with building peace in North-East India. Prayer for the Middle East, in communion with the Pope Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - Ethnic and cultural diversity, pluralism, different languages and origins are a wealth that must be spent to nourish dialogue, mutual exchange, individual and community growth, openness to vast ...
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  25 October 2023
  OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - The Archbishop of Papeete: the local clergy and the formative turning point Uturoa (Agenzia Fides) - On October 28, the Archbishop of Papeete, Jean Pierre Cottanceau, SS.CC., ordained a young Tahitian priest. Tareva TAITI is the name of the boy who has been a deacon for a year already with a vie ...
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  25 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - One of the three Benedictines killed after the kidnapping on October 17; the other two set free Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Brother Godwin Eze, one of the three Benedictine monks kidnapped by an armed gang on the night of 17 October in Eruku monastery in Kwara State, in central-northern Nigeria, was brutally killed (se ...
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  24 October 2023
  Time is Greater than Space. The Holy See diplomacy and the “Vietnamese lesson” by Victor Gaetan (In the decade 1965-1975, between 790,000 and 1.14 million Vietnamese civilians and soldiers died as a result of war while the US military suffered over 58,000 casualties. Between 1963-1973, the US d ...
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  24 October 2023
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Jubilee of Saint Arethas: all parishes celebrate the Martyrs of Arabia Manama (Agenzia Fides) - There are special events that mark the path of the Catholic Christian community of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia: in particular, today, October 24, all the parishes of the Catholic C ...
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  24 October 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A new station in the Catholic radio network, in the wake of Radio Veritas by Paolo Affatato Tandang (Agenzia Fides) - The new Catholic radio inaugurated by the Philippine diocese of Tandag is called "Unitas Radio". It is the first Catholic radio station in the Surigao region, on the island ...
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  23 October 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - World Mission Sunday 2023: Catholic communities remember missionaries, who gave their lives to proclaim the Gospel Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Following in the footsteps of the missionaries of the past and with a view to the proclamation of the Gospel in today's China, many Catholic communities in mainland China intensely experienced W ...
• 23 October 2023
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Appointment of Bishop of Oran Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, October 22, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Fr. Davide Carraro, P.I.M.E., until now vicar general of Alger, as bishop of Oran, Algeria. Msgr. Davide Carraro ...
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  23 October 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops of the Great Lakes region call for an end to violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Everything must be done to put an end to the suffering of the people of the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)", say the members of the Association of Bishops' Conferences of Centr ...
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  23 October 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Full support for the Palestinian people: Peace in the Middle East lies in the "two-state solution" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - On October 15, 1937, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the political leader who would become the founding father of Pakistan a few years later, after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1945, said in a ...
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  23 October 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Eparch of Adigrat: "Our world order seems to be in need of a serious transformation": we do not want Tigray to remain forgotten Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "Our world order seems to be in need of a serious transformation, otherwise the consequences will continue affecting more and more, of course the weaker ones being first loosers", writes to Fide ...
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  22 October 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: may the People of God participate "actively" in Mission Day 2023 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - An invitation addressed to the people of God for everyone to participate "actively" in World Mission Day 2023, celebrated as every year on the penultimate Sunday of October. The appeal was ...
• 21 October 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Makassar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Fransiskus Nipa, of the clergy of Makassar, Indonesia, hitherto judicial vicar and deputy parish priest of the cathedral, as coadjutor archbis ...
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  21 October 2023
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Media representative of the Bishops' Conference: “Our listeners ask us above all for prayers” The Catholic media in Côte d'Ivoire has undergone a profound evolution in recent years. A process intertwined with the journey of the entire ecclesial community, as Don Hervé Djezou secrétariat exécutif national des ...
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  21 October 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "God's chef": As a missionary among the poor and homeless Seoul (Agenzi Fides) - Father Vincenzo Bordo, missionary of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, put on the apron 30 years ago and is now known in South Korea and beyond as "God's chef". He has lived and worked as a missiona ...