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11 October 2021
ASIA/PAKISTAN - International Day of the Girl: the Church recalls forced marriages and the religious conversion of minors
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government must make every effort to put an end to the phenomenon of forced marriages, kidnappings and religious conversion of underage girls: this is the appeal released by the Catholic Bish ...
11 October 2021
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The release of Sister Gloria, a moment of joy long awaited by the Church in Colombia
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Monsignor Mario de Jesús Álvarez Gómez, Bishop of Istmina-Tadó, president of the Commission for Missions of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, confirmed on October 9, through a video messa ...
11 October 2021
EUROPE/FRANCE - Musical piece and video clip to promote the message of World Missions Day in France
Paris (Agenzia Fides) - Preparations are underway in France in view of World Mission Week (October, 17-24, 2021) to which a section of the Pontifical Mission Societies website is dedicated. With a new song of praise and ...
11 October 2021
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - For a different church, we need men and women who are determined and committed to change
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "True change will only be possible by letting the action of the Holy Spirit intervene on the will of men and women to collaborate. If we want a different church, we need open minds, willing men ...
11 October 2021
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - "Walking together, not only on the level of faith, but also on a human level": National pastoral meeting
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Responding to the fundamental needs of the Church and society: this was the objective of the XXXIX National Pastoral Meeting, which the Dominican Episcopal Conference (CED), through its Na ...
11 October 2021
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Resignation and appointment of Bishop of Kandy
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 9, 2021 the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kandy, Sri Lanka, presented by Bishop Joseph Vianney Fernando.
The Holy Father has ...
11 October 2021
AFRICA/MALI - "Only joy": Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez freed
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The Farnesina confirmed the news to me: only joy"! This is the comment of Father Gigi Maccalli, priest of the Society for African Missions (SMA) regarding the release of Sister Gloria Cecilia Na ...
9 October 2021
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Priority to the missionary formation of children
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - On the path of evangelization in Papua New Guinea, it is important to give priority to the formation of children: this is what emerged from a workshop organized in Port Moresby by the Ponti ...
9 October 2021
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Evangelization and charity: the first community of the Sisters of Don Orione
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "For some years now, we have been planning to open a community of the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity in Mozambique: now this dream has come true". This is what Sister Claudia Maria Rio said ...
9 October 2021
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Fidelity to mission: 13 young people newly professed in the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - To be prophets and missionaries, on the roads of the world: this is the appeal launched to the 13 young people (11 Congolese and 2 Cameroonians) who, on October 7, in the liturgical memory of O ...
9 October 2021
EUROPE/SWEDEN - Life of Faith and Mission of Chaldean Catholics in Northern Europe
Götheborg (Agenzia Fides) - What does it mean to be Catholic in a Scandinavian Country, in a context with a Lutheran majority, but also of widespread atheism? And what are the missionary challenges of a "minority within ...
9 October 2021
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to journalist Maria Ressa, a sign of hope for the future
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "This is the first Nobel Prize ever awarded to a Filipino citizen. The fact that it is awarded to a woman and a brilliant journalist, Maria Ressa, distinguished for her professionalism in the cur ...
8 October 2021
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Social Media and TV for animation in the month of missionary October
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Social media and TV are among the privileged tools used by the Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Nigeria for the animation of missionary October. The preparations, which began about ...
8 October 2021
ASIA/IRAQ - Political elections, the Chaldean Patriarchate shares the appeal for the vote of Grand Ayatollah Al Sistani
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - While Iraqi citizens are preparing to go to the polls to elect the 329 members of the new Parliament, the Chaldean Patriarchate joins its voice to that of the Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, who ...
8 October 2021
AFRICA/eSWATINI - Bishop Ponce de León: "The way out of the crisis is a truly inclusive national dialogue"
Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - "We live in a time of uncertainty and tension. Since the beginning of the crisis, which broke out at the end of last June, in our meetings with the interim Prime Minister, we have pointed out th ...
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