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5 November 2021
ASIA/IRAQ - “Inter-ritual” football tournament between the parishes in Baghdad. The Chaldeans win on penalties
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The final of the "Pope Francis Tournament", the sporting event that competed 12 teams, representing local Armenian, Chaldean, Syriac, Latin and Coptic ecclesial communities, ended on penalties. ...
5 November 2021
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Different and convergent approaches to mission: the course for Ad Gentes missionaries
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - To offer specific missionary formation to missionaries sent on Mission Ad Gentes, inside and outside Brazil: this is the general objective of the Ad Gentes Course promoted by the Missionary Cu ...
5 November 2021
EUROPE/ITALY - An Atlas on wars, to understand the roots of peace
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - There are still over thirty wars in the world. But this reality is even greater if we take into account low-intensity conflicts, political violence, street clashes or the repression of those who pr ...
5 November 2021
ASIA/INDONESIA - More than 120 Catholic religious who died of Covid in 2021: "They did not hold back"
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - More than 120 consecrated Catholics (including friars and nuns) died from January to September 2021 because of Covid-19 in Indonesia. They were infected in the exercise of their mission of pasto ...
5 November 2021
AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Violence and instability increase in Kivu: a missionary's warning
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In the northeastern regions, the situation is dramatic, even worse than a few months ago. The news that is arriving is very bad and we do not see any change. Since May, the state of siege has ...
4 November 2021
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic Churches of the Holy Land confirm their "Eucharistic hospitality" to the baptized of the non-Catholic Eastern Churches
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - A priest belonging to one of the Catholic communities present in the Holy Land can administer the sacraments of Penance, the Eucharist and the Anointing of the sick even to Christians belongin ...
4 November 2021
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of the Bishop of Tambacounda
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed His Exc. Mgr. Paul Abel Mamba as Bishop of the diocese of Tambacounda (Senegal), transferring him from the See of Ziguinchor. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 4/11 ...
4 November 2021
AFRICA - "It is on the old mat that we sit and weave the new one": Cop 26, for a return to the sacred
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - An African saying goes: "It is on the old mat that we sit down to weave the new one". To say that at the center of our stories, our African cultures sometimes find adequate answers to the major ...
4 November 2021
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saint Paul VI" preparatory Seminary in Mbanga
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 10, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Antoine- Marie Nsoumpe Mboube, of the clergy of Nkongsamba as ...
4 November 2021
EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Karl Wallner, O.CIST.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On September 1, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the position of Fr. Karl Wallner, of the Cistercian Order as Na ...
4 November 2021
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishops are concerned "by any action which weakens the independence of the judiciary"
Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - The Paraguayan Episcopal Conference, gathered for its Ordinary General Assembly on November 1 and 2, expressed in a brief statement on November 3 "its deep concern for any action that weakens ...
4 November 2021
ASIA/BANGLADESH - A Protestant Bishop: it is urgent to set up an interfaith teaching program in schools to fight intolerance
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "I ask the Ministry of Education to include in the school curriculum a subject that touches on different religions, in the name of dialogue and harmony. This will help to put an end to religious v ...
4 November 2021
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Bishop Bertin: hope is the beginning of a process of dialogue and democratization
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Sometimes I meet people who ask me: after so many years, how can you still hope that the situation in Somalia will change?" And I reply that something has been moving in recent months, but, a ...
3 November 2021
VATICAN - Filipinos, ardent missionaries in the world
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We received the gift of faith 500 years ago, but not only then: we invoke the Lord and we receive it from him even today. We received and lived it as Filipinos, and we give it to the world as Fili ...
3 November 2021
ASIA/JORDAN - Islamic-Christian international appeal for the protection of prayer communities and Holy Places
Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The bloody attacks on places of worship that host communities of faith gathered in prayer or while taking part in ritual acts, represent the "summit" of justified atrocities and violence by bringi ...
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