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  9 September 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - "Rachel's Vineyard" in Russia to overcome post-abortion trauma St. Petersburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Participation in these seminars helps people to face the pain of loss and to entrust it to God, re-elaborating the loss of an aborted child, reconciling with oneself and with God". This ...
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  9 September 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Assyrian Patriarch Mar Awa III attends the closing luncheon of the Spiritual Exercises of the Chaldean clergy Ankawa (Agenzia Fides) - Exactly one year after his election as Patriarch, Mar Awa III, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, was the guest of honor at the lunch organized at the end of the spiritual exercises th ...
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  9 September 2022
  VATICAN - Mgr. Harrington to the Bishops: "We need to rethink communication, putting the recipients of the message at the center" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The recipients and the way they use the message (targeting), narrative reporting (storytelling) and the means by which the recipients are reached (delivery) are the three pillars on which communica ...
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  9 September 2022
  AMERICA - Communities united by social media for in-depth study and prayerful reading of God's Word Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the "Month of the Bible", which many Latin American countries traditionally celebrate in September, and which culminates on the 30th with the feast of St. Jerome, the first t ...
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  8 September 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - 25 years after her death, Mother Teresa is for India an example of the following of Christ Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - "The life, the message, the embodied spirituality, the legacy of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, foundress of the Missionaries of Charity (MC), are still relevant and significant for India and ...
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  8 September 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Missionaries accused of supporting terrorism: civil society takes the field alongside them Manila (Agenza Fides) - Catholic communities, human rights associations and civil society organizations are calling for the withdrawal of all charges against the organization "Rural Missionaries of the Philippines" (RMP) ...
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  8 September 2022
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Young journalist murdered: Bishops call for protection of freedom of expression Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "The State must guarantee and protect the right to freedom of expression. This is all the more true in a scenario of great danger, otherwise organized crime, drug trafficking and atrocities wil ...
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  8 September 2022
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - From the port of Garacad a road that brings development and hope to the entire area Garowe (Agenzia Fides) - There is recent news of an important road project launched in Somali Puntland that will favor strong development of the area. It is a regional project with strategic importance that involves the ...
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  8 September 2022
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The point on dialogue envisaged by the peace agreements: "it is the only way to resolve the great conflicts and the historical demands of all" Quito (Agenzia Fides) - With a message addressed to all Ecuadorians, presented yesterday during a press conference, the Presidency Council of the Bishops' Conference of Ecuador, guarantor of the Peace Acts Agreements, to ...
• 8 September 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - "The population is disoriented" says the Archbishop of Nampula after the assault on the mission and the murder of Sister Maria Maputo (Agenzia Fides). "She is a martyr of the Faith", says His Exc. Msgr. Inacio Saure, Archbishop of Nampula, upon hearing the message of vindication of the self-styled Islamic State (ISIS) about the murder of four Ch ...
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  8 September 2022
  ASIA/SYRIA - Islamist militiamen in Tahrir al Sham allow Christians to publicly celebrate Mass in the province of Idlib Idlib (Agenzia Fides) - Mass was celebrated in a church that had been closed for ten years. This happened in the province of Idlib, in an area still controlled by the anti-Assad Islamist militias. Permission to re-open t ...
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  7 September 2022
  VATICAN - The service of the Pontifical Missionary Union: "Christian proclamation and formation for a totally missionary Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent years, the activities of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) of animation, formation and missionary awareness have intensified, culminating in the Extraordinary Missionary Mont ...
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  7 September 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Silsilah movement: the culture of dialogue and peace begins with children Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - "The Movement for Islamic-Christian dialogue Silsilah has trained thousands of Muslims and Christians over the years through summer courses and training seminars on the culture of dialogue as ...
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  7 September 2022
  VATICAN - Every Bishop is part of the network of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "It is important that each Bishop collaborates and cooperates in the work of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith (POPF) and establishes a close relationship of communion ...
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  7 September 2022
  AMERICA/CANADA - The children of Papua New Guinea at the center of the 2022-2023 Projet-Partage Montréal (Agenzia Fides) - More than 130 children from Papua New Guinea will benefit from the scholastic support of the Projet-Partage 2022-2023 of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood (POSI) of the national d ...