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  18 September 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Solidarity campaign "Together for Cabo Delgado" to assist over 250,000 displaced people in the diocese of Pemba Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Together for Cabo Delgado". This is the international solidarity campaign launched in July by the diocese of Pemba, in the province of Cabo Delgado, in the north of Mozambique, devastated by the ...
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  18 September 2020
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Interreligious celebrations and prayer for the nation: all united in the fight against the pandemic Sarawak (Agenzia Fides) - Prayer unites believers of different religions in Malaysia and increases the spirit of coexistence and national unity. In this context, various religious communities in the Malaysian state of Sa ...
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  18 September 2020
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Bishops to the government: "a social market economy" to eradicate poverty Dodoma (Agenzia Fides) - The Tanzanian government must adopt a new economic model, that of the "social market economy", which aims to have a nation with sustainable and inclusive economic growth. This is what the Tanzani ...
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  18 September 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Towards World Mission Day: the Church in Malawi on Radio Maria Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Malawi has started preparation for World Mission Day which this year is celebrated on October 18, with new forms due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It was in fact decided to m ...
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  18 September 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Middle East Council of Churches meets to choose the new Secretary Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Executive Committee of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) meets today Friday 18 September in Bkerké, at the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchate, to elect the new Secretary Gen ...
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  18 September 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Tornado damages 72 houses and the church in a neighborhood of Managua Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in the neighborhood of Monseñor Lezcano, in Managua, suffered serious damage due to a tornado that hit the area yesterday morning. The tornado occurred ...
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  18 September 2020
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Bishops: "Against the viruses that have condemned us to poverty and death, we have the antibodies of justice, charity and solidarity" Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - "In the midst of uncertainty, we are in a time of grace, which offers us a historic opportunity to rebuild the social fabric and establish another dynamic that makes us more human, more cari ...
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  17 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Covid-19: marriages postponed until "it is safe to celebrate the Sacrament with freedom and festivity Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - " The best is to defer marriages until it is safe to celebrate the Sacrament with greater freedom and with greater festivity", said the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Cape Town, Syl ...
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  17 September 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Eucharist at the time of the coronavirus: a drive-in mass Tacloban (Agenzia Fides) - It was necessary to "invent something" to allow the faithful to celebrate the Eucharist safely and "in the presence", not only through the web, while Covid-19 continues to plague the Philippine ...
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  17 September 2020
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assad "returns" the "Holy Land College" of Aleppo to the Franciscans Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The former "Holy Land College" of Aleppo, historic stronghold of the Custody of the Holy Land in the northern Syrian metropolis, has been officially returned by the Syrian State to the Franciscan ...
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  17 September 2020
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "To seek the common good" urges the President of the Episcopal Conference in the face of growing tensions Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "For some time our Country no longer lives in the perspective of its progress, but in growing chaos. The effects of this creeping chaos are easily visible in our cities and villages: they deriv ...
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  17 September 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Independence Day: the partnership between State and Church is the cornerstone for the foundation of the nation Boroko (Agenzia Fides) - "While we remember the freedom for which our founding fathers worked to bring our people and our nation where we are today, it is also important to recognize and respect our national Constitution ...
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  17 September 2020
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - Towards Mission Sunday: "Mission before a territory is a way of life", says a Salesian missionary in Vilnius Vilnius (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Massimo Bianco, a Salesian of Don Bosco (SDB), has been a missionary in Lithuania for twenty years. He is 57 years old, lives and works in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, in a large sub ...
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  17 September 2020
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Sacred Heart of Jesus statue destroyed in St. Patrick Cathedral El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - A vandal destroyed a statue of Jesus at St. Patrick Cathedral in El Paso, Texas on Tuesday morning, September 15. According to the diocese, someone entered the sanctuary of St. Patrick’s Cathe ...
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  16 September 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 50 dead in the gold mine collapse in Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are those who wonder why a person should work for 3 euros an hour, or harvest tomatoes for one euro per box, or like young people from Kamituga (Kivu, eastern Congo) dig makeshift mines w ...