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  27 September 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Theology courses, prayers, information materials: Chinese Catholics are preparing to participate "remotely" in the Synod on synodality Ningbo (Agenzia Fides) - With theology courses, prayers for the Synod and the dissemination of information material through social networks, the Catholic communities in the People's Republic of China are preparing to par ...
• 27 September 2023
  AFRICA/CHAD - Chad is the fifth country in the world for the number of refugees per capita compared to the population N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - Despite being one of the poorest countries in the world, Chad hosts almost a million refugees, of which about 75% are Sudanese, 21% come from the Central African Republic and 4% from Nigeria a ...
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  27 September 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Government takes action against Al Shabab militias: “The aim of the terrorists is to destroy the Somali people” Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "The aim of the terrorists is to destroy the entire Somali people". In a statement, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud recalled that the al-Shabab militias do not shy away from destroying ...
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  26 September 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The synodal path in the Philippines enhances the Basic Ecclesial Communities Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "In the life of the Philippine Church, participation in the synodal process - with a view to the Synodal Assembly that will soon begin in the Vatican - has been wide-ranging and fruitful consulta ...
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  26 September 2023
  ASIA/LEBANON - 500 young people from the Churches of the Middle East pray for the next General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops Jbeil (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 young people from different churches in the Middle East prayed for peace, an end to wars, the integrity of Creation and the request that the Holy Spirit guides and enlightens the upc ...
• 26 September 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Refugees: "Staying or emigrating is no longer a choice" says the Bishop of Koudougou Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we see that staying or emigrating is often no longer a choice, especially leaving has become a necessity," says Msgr. Joachim Hermenegilde Ouédraogo, Bishop of Koudougou, President o ...
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  26 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "It is God who sends you to us": grassroots communities help families in need Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the uncertainty in which the country lives after the coup of July 26, we continue to work. Harvests throughout the Sahel are poor and the closure of the borders, especially those of Benin ...
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  26 September 2023
  ASIA/CINA - Father Flavio Belluomini, Archivist of the Dicastery for Evangelization, speaks at the Chinese Social Sciences Forum - 2023 Religious Studies Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Academics and scholars from different countries working in the field of religious studies took part in the 2023 International Conference of the Chinese Social Sciences Forum - 2023-Religious Stu ...
• 25 September 2023
  AFRICA/BENIN - The death of 35 people in a fire due to a fuel depot blast raises the issue of fuel smuggling Porto-Novo (Agenzia Fides) - At least 35 people (including two children) died in the explosion of a clandestine fuel smuggling depot, which occurred on September 23 in Sèmè-Kraké, a town located on the border between ...
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  25 September 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Father Nestor Fils-Aimé: “We only live on hope. Is not our God the God of the impossible?” Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The heavy state of instability, violence and terror that has continued to rage in Haiti for four long years also affects the Clerics of Saint-Viator missionaries present on the Caribbean ...
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  25 September 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Towards Jubilee 2025: "Quo vadis, India?" Goa (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in India joins the universal Church, with joy and with the responsibility of the evangelizing mission, in the preparation of the Jubilee of 2025, reflecting and making its own the central ...
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  23 September 2023
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - New priests for the Cambodian Church: a sign of growth and hope Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Cambodia is enriched with new priests: three new Cambodian priests, whose priestly ordination is celebrated today, September 23, are diocesan priests in the Apostoli ...
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  23 September 2023
  EUROPE/FRANCE - The Pope in Marseille: those who risk their lives in the Mediterranean cannot be rejected as "invaders" Marseille (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the multitudes of migrants trying to reach Europe, ports are closed and "people's fears" are fueled, with talk of an "invasion" and an "emergency". But "those who risk their lives a ...
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  22 September 2023
  CHINA/VATICAN - 5 years since the Agreement on the appointments of Chinese Bishops. The missionary Heyndrickx: let us support the Pope in dialogue with China by Gianni Valente Leuven (Agenzia Fides) - On September 22, 2018, exactly five years ago, representatives of the Holy See and the People's Republic of China signed in Beijing the Provisional Agreement on the procedures ...
• 22 September 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Maputo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Osório Citora Afonso, I.M.C., until now official at the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for first evangelization and the new particular ...