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  13 September 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - Next Saturday "Children's Missionary Synod 2022" Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Children representing 33 dioceses in Poland will meet in Warsaw next Saturday, September 17, for the Missionary Synod dedicated to them (see Fides 22/10/2022). Four hundred participants, includin ...
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  13 September 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Prayer and solidarity: mobilization of the Catholic community to help families affected by the floods in Sindh Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The people affected by the heavy rains in the province of Sindh find themselves in a terrible situation: many live in the open air, without food to eat, without homes, without a kitchen and wit ...
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  13 September 2022
  AMERICA/CUBA - New Family Code: Bishops call on Cubans to vote according to "conscience, faith, convictions and principles" Havana (Agenzia Fides) - The referendum on the new "Family Code" will be held in Cuba on Sunday, September 25, at the end of a long process of elaboration. The National Assembly of People's Power unanimously approved thi ...
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  13 September 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: "I am always ready to go to China" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I am ready to go to China". This is how Pope Francis replied to the correspondent of the French newspaper La Croix, during the flight from Rome that was bringing the Pope, the papal entourage and ...
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  13 September 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Army soldiers occupy and mine Catholic Church Pekon (Agenzia Fides) - The civil conflict in Myanmar does not stop at churches and other places of worship. According to local sources from Pekhon Diocese, Myanmar Regular Army troops occupied the Catholic Church of the ...
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  12 September 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - From Russia to Kazakhstan, on pilgrimage with the Successor of Peter Vladimir (Agenzia Fides) - "We are going on a pilgrimage to Kazakhstan to live a moment of personal and communal conversion, praying together with the Successor of Peter, in communion with him and with the universal Chur ...
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  12 September 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Comboni Missionaries, 150 years of mission: an exhibition looking at the General Chapter Verona (Agenzia Fides) - The 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Comboni Missionaries will be commemorated on September 14 at the Mother House, in Verona, with the inauguration of the exhibition "A promise that co ...
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  12 September 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Catechists with a synodal heart" for listening, dialogue, discernment, integration Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the celebration of the "National Week of Catechesis 2022" that will take place in Venezuela from September 18 to 22, the Department of Catechesis of the Episcopal Conference h ...
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  12 September 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - The heart of the mission ad gentes: to deepen the phenomenon of migration by moving from “for” to “with” Rome Agenzia Fides) - The phenomenon of migration, in preparation for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which will be celebrated on September 25, 2022, was at the center of the meetings for formation and animation ...
• 12 September 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President of the Bishops' Conference: "We are passing through the darkest chapter of our history" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The level of insecurity in the country is very worrisome. We are passing through what might be deemed as the darkest chapter of our history as a nation", warns Mgr. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, Archbis ...
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  12 September 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Bishop of Almaty: "The Pope's visit, a fruitful moment to deepen our vocation to follow Christ" Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pope's visit to Kazakhstan is great news for all of us, truly Good News, which helps us to understand even better the meaning and mission of our presence in Kazakhstan and the value of our f ...
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  10 September 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Stories, testimonies and reflections on video for Missionary Month Rome (Agenzia Fides) - There are eight videos of missionary animation developed and distributed by the Missio Foundation (the Italian section of the Pontifical Mission Societies) and produced for Missionary October. Thes ...
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  10 September 2022
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Christian Churches, a solid reference for the people in the post-Mugabe era Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "The new era that we all hoped would begin after the fall of Mugabe in 2017 has not yet begun or at least the path is not going as planned. However, the situation is stabilizing and the governmen ...
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  10 September 2022
  OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - A week after his beatification, Pope Luciani is already the patron of a catechetical center in Bora Bora Bora Bora (Agenzia Fides) - A brand new complex of 50 meters, dedicated to catechesis and parish activities, will be inaugurated on Sunday, September 11, 2022 in the parish of Bora Bora, dedicated to Pope Saint Celestine ...
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  10 September 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The testimony of Monsignor Jaramillo, "prophet and martyr of peace" is always alive and current Arauca (Agenzia Fides) - On September 8, 2017, in the city of Villavicencio - Meta, during his apostolic journey to Colombia, Pope Francis proclaimed Blessed Monsignor Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve, first bishop of th ...