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27 October 2021
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Ouagadougou Pan-African Film Festival: an opportunity for the Church of Africa to evangelize
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "Cinema is an important art in the life of African populations. Africans love TV and cinema in particular". This is what Father Donald Zagore, an Ivorian priest of the Society for African Mi ...
27 October 2021
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Fr. Alain Mayama is new Superior General of the Spiritans
Bagamoyo (Agenzia Fides) - The general chapter of the Spiritans, meeting in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, from October 3 to 24, elected for the first time an African brother as superior general of the congregation. Current assista ...
27 October 2021
EUROPE/ROMANIA - "Missionary pilgrimage" in an October full of initiatives for missionary animation
Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - The National Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Romania has organized numerous initiatives of missionary awareness and animation for the month of October, which will end next Sun ...
27 October 2021
VATICAN - Study seminar on 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines and the missionary spirit
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On October 30th, the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Mission Society (PMS) and the Pontifical Filipino College of Rome will jointly hold a seminar to Celebrate 500 years of Christianity ...
27 October 2021
AMERICA/CHILE - Ten thousand Haitian emigrants have been able to access consular services in the parish
Providencia (Agenzia Fides) - About 10,000 Haitian emigrants residing in Chile were able to take advantage of the administrative and legal processes regarding passport, identity card and criminal record verification, tha ...
27 October 2021
ASIA/INDIA - Violence against Christians, "flagrant violation of the Constitution"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The attacks against the Indian Christian faithful are clear and flagrant violations of the Constitution, and as such must be prosecuted and stopped: this is how priests, religious, promoters o ...
26 October 2021
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - From the first baptisms in America to the missionary commitment of all baptized
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Within the framework of the missionary month of October, the Dominican diocese of La Vega celebrated Diocesan Mission Day 2021 from October 8 to 10, in Cotuí, with the theme “525th anni ...
26 October 2021
AFRICA/MALAWI - Christians, heralds of good news
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, October 24, the Bishop Emeritus of Zomba, Monsignor George Desmond Tambala, appointed Archbishop of Lilongwe a few days ago, during the celebration of World Mission Sunday in the par ...
26 October 2021
ASIA/IRAQ - Museum in Erbil will preserve Christian manuscripts that escaped jihadist devastation
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The old manuscripts and books, Christian and Islamic, saved in recent years from a possible destruction by the jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) will be collected and kept in a museum-study c ...
26 October 2021
ASIA/INDONESIA - "Flores: Missionary Sisters of the Holy Face celebrate their 30th anniversary
Koting (Agenzia Fides) - On October 24, 2021, on the same day the Church celebrated World Mission Day, the Sisters of the Holy Face, C.S.V, present in Koting - Flores - Indonesia, celebrated their 30 years of presence in ...
26 October 2021
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishops recall "the basic and indispensable conditions in order to hold free, fair and transparent elections"
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "As we have stated on several occasions, an authentic democracy is the result of the convinced acceptance of values: the dignity of every person, respect for human rights, the search for the com ...
26 October 2021
ASIA/VIETNAM - Prayer, fasting, charity: mission in times of pandemic
Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzi Fides) - "Even in difficult times, the Church of Vietnam has increased missionary and charitable activities, as a sign of solidarity towards the poor", declared the Bishops of Vietnam gathered in ...
26 October 2021
ASIA - ASEAN summit without Myanmar
Bandar Seri Begawan (Agenzia Fides) - The 38th and 39th Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the most important event of the year for the regional association of Southeast Asia, opens today, 26 O ...
25 October 2021
AFRICA/SUDAN - The military takes power with a coup, people take to the streets
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "While we are speaking we hear gunshots. As we feared, the army began firing on demonstrators who, since the early hours of the morning, have poured into the streets to demand an immediate end ...
25 October 2021
ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch after riots in Tayyouneh: "It is the duty of the State to protect its people"
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The State has the task of "protecting its people". And if this does not happen, those who "defend their dignity and the security of their surroundings" should not be treated as a "scapegoat", sai ...
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