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  25 September 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch asks UN Security Council to intervene in order to impose negotiations between the parties in conflict Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of the "national catastrophe" in Lebanon, Maronite Patriarch Boutros Bechara Rai appeals to the UN Security Council to "intervene effectively" to force the parties to the conflict to ...
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  25 September 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Lebanon: the international community should "make every effort to stop this terrible escalation" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I am saddened by the news from Lebanon, where in recent days the intense bombings have claimed many victims and caused destruction," said Francis during the general audience in front of th ...
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  25 September 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Middle East Council of Churches: “comprehensive aggression” against Lebanon. Father Zgheib: attack in a village a few kilometers from the Maronite Patriarchate Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing military escalation in Lebanon has developed into a "comprehensive aggression against various Lebanese regions, resulting in the martyrdom of thousands of citizens and the displacemen ...
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  25 September 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Father Massimo Miraglio: “With courage and determination, we continue our commitment so that people will one day have a decent standard of living” by Antonella Prenna Pourcine (Agenzia Fides) - "Although the international spotlight on Haiti has long since faded, newspapers and media no longer report on it, the situation has not changed or improved in any way". ...
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  25 September 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Ituri Province: two churches closed after desecration by rebels Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In the diocese of Bunia, capital of the province of Ituri in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, two churches desecrated by a rebel group have been closed. This was announced by the B ...
• 24 September 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Father Alfonsus Widhiwiryawan appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 5 September 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Alfonsu ...
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  24 September 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul: young people from all over the world to become “courageous missionaries” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From a country where faith was transmitted “without the help of missionaries”, young people are to become “courageous missionaries” able to bear witness to the joy of the Gospel. This is th ...
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  24 September 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Tensions over recent supplies of arms to Somalia and Puntland Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - There is an intense verbal exchange between Somalia, Somaliland and Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa over the recent arms shipments to the region. On September 20, the government in Mogadishu c ...
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  24 September 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Bishop Subroto Gomes: "Student protests" must respect the rights of others Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation we find ourselves in after the political and social crisis of last August is delicate. There are still tensions in society, there are protests, especially among young people. The ma ...
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  24 September 2024
  AMERICA/PERU - Bilingual education for indigenous peoples: lack of teachers and adequate infrastructure Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - "We need authorities to defend the rights of girls, boys and young people of indigenous peoples, because they cannot continue to be excluded," says Mariluz Canaquiri, a member of the indigenous ...
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  24 September 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The memory of the Jesuit Martino Martini still opens up paths of encounter and dialogue by Marta Zhao and Laura Gomez Ruiz Hangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - China, the city of Hangzhou and the Chinese Catholic community have never forgotten Father Martino Martini. The great Jesuit missionary, appreciated by th ...
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  23 September 2024
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - Bishop Martinelli closes the Jubilee of the Martyrs of Arabia: they are our roots Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee in honor of Saint Aretha and his Companions, Martyrs of Arabia, was also a precious opportunity to rediscover the long history of Christianity in Arabia, a history "rooted in the a ...
• 23 September 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of bishop of Isiro-Niangara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Dieudonné Madrapile Tanzi as bishop of Isiro-Niangara, Democratic Republic of the Congo, transferring him from the pastoral care of the diocese of Isan ...
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  23 September 2024
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - President Dissanayake: the new face of the nation Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Anura Kumara Dissanayake is the new president of Sri Lanka, the Electoral Commission announced yesterday after the election on Saturday, September 21. A member of parliament with a left-wing pol ...
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  23 September 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The commitment of religious denominations for peace in South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - An interreligious meeting for peace held on September 21 in Bukavu, capital of South Kivu, one of the three eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been plagued for dec ...