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  9 August 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Jubilee year of the Pontifical Mission Societies: conveying the message through music Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - In view of missionary October and the Sunday dedicated to the missions, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Malawi presented two songs last Sunday, one in English and one in the local Chi ...
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  9 August 2022
  ASIA - Young people in the footsteps of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Shymkent (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people in the countries of Central Asia should know that they are not alone on their way to holiness, but that there are many of their peers who share the same ideals. They should know w ...
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  9 August 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The vocation of the young people of "Jesus Youth": "Disciples and missionaries to proclaim the love of God" Ayubia (Agenzia Fides) - "As young Catholics we are also missionary disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are called to fulfill a mission of healing and renewal of life. We are the hands and feet of Jesus Christ, we wal ...
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  9 August 2022
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Personalized video messages for World Mission Sunday New York (Agenzia Fides) - Personalized messages at local level are to be created as part of the campaign of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States for World Mission Day. This year, the directors and coll ...
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  8 August 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - A peace caravan of Franciscan nuns, ahead of the elections Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We wanted to find a simple and direct way to send everyone a message of peace and calm on the eve of the elections (scheduled for next August 9th, ed) and so we have decided to organize a carav ...
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  8 August 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Pope's visit: "All of Kazakhstan is happy" Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "There are no words to express the joy of the entire Catholic community in Kazakhstan at the visit of Pope Francis to our country. What pleases us the most is the fact that even the non-Cathol ...
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  8 August 2022
  ASIA/MACAO - The International Exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles has been extended: Blessed Carlo Acutis conquers the hearts of visitors Macao (Agenzia Fides) - After the great success of the International Exhibition on Eucharistic Miracles, conceived and realized by Blessed Carlo Acutis and held in Macau from June 17th to July 31st, the organizers have d ...
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  8 August 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Missionary sending of five seminarians to the indigenous communities of the Pemón Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Five seminarians have been sent by the Diocese of San Cristóbal to the Apostolic Vicariate of Caronì, who in the month of August and in various indigenous communities will pastorally accompany ...
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  8 August 2022
  VATICAN - Cardinal Jozef Tomko, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, passed away at the age of 98 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With deep sadness and gratitude for the service rendered, the collaborators of the Vatican Dicastery for Evangelization received the news of the death of Slovak Cardinal Jozef Tomko, Prefe ...
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  6 August 2022
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - The first vocation to female consecrated life in Samarkand Samarkand (Agenzia Fides) - "Summer is a privileged time to increase faith, and here in Uzbekistan the Lord is granting us the grace to carry out a truly important work of formation and deepening of spirituality. Last ye ...
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  6 August 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - "We are each other's guardians", the expectation of the next elections increases in the country Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us share with our neighbours, wherever we are, in villages, towns or cities, the identity of who we are: citizens of our beloved nation, Kenya". Appeals and exhortations from the Kenyan Bis ...
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  5 August 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appeal of the Auxiliary Bishop of Minna: "Jungle justice". The country is on the path of disintegration Minna (Agenzia Fides) - Violence continues to spread across the country, as well as kidnappings, killings, attacks on churches, clashes, and now even death threats against President Muhammadu Buhari. This is how Msgr. ...
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  5 August 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Month of the Catechist in Santa Cruz: "Walking together in Communion, Participation and Mission" Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – With the motto: "Forming in the faith at the service of God", the Commission for Catechesis and the Bible of the Archdiocese of Santa Cruz invites priests, animators of the Catechesis of Ch ...
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  5 August 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - New ecclesial pathways and the need to adopt creative pastoral approaches for a “synodal Church” Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "The Gospel speaks to us of the dream of Jesus for his disciples, for us. This dream of Jesus for his disciples has got two facets: Communion and Mission. In order to journey with the Church i ...
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  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - More than 600 hostages of the Islamic State freed in northern Mozambique but attacks continue Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – More than 600 hostages have been freed by the Rwandan military contingent together with their Mozambican counterparts and the forces of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the ...