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15 October 2020
AMERICA/HAITI - A long list of deaths and violence: proliferation of weapons, impunity and corruption among the causes
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Violence does not stop in Haiti, which in recent weeks has been causing a wave of deaths. On Monday, October 12, Eric Elias Diogène, Senator Youri Latortue’s bodyguard, was shot dead i ...
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15 October 2020
EUROPE/ITALY - In the wake of the Extraordinary Missionary Month: "Baptized and Sent" to become "Weavers of Fraternity"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "This year's missionary October follows in the wake of the Extraordinary Missionary Month that we celebrated in 2019. The theme 'Baptized and Sent', which aimed to rediscover the universality of th ...
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15 October 2020
AFRICA/MALI - Towards Mission Sunday: "For a peaceful Mali, here I am, send me Lord"
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We have drawn from the theme of World Mission Day a theme adapted to the current situation in Mali and which will remain valid not only for the missionary month of October 2020 but also for all ...
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15 October 2020
ASIA/THAILAND - Demonstration of "young people" for democracy and the limitation of the powers of the Crown
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The renewal of the state of emergency in Bangkok, which bans public meetings of more than 5 people and the publication of "illegal messages" on social media, is the government's response to the ...
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15 October 2020
ASIA/VIETNAM - Mobilization of Catholic communities in favor of populations affected by floods in central Vietnam
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic Parishes and communities have mobilized to help people affected by the recent floods in central Vietnam, where due to heavy rains and floods, tens of thousands of residents have had to le ...
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15 October 2020
AFRICA/MALI - "Sister Cecilia is alive, but in need of care. Everything must be done to free her", says former French hostage who spent her captivity with her
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez, Colombian missionary kidnapped in Mali on February 7, 2017, is alive but needs care. This is what was reported by Sophie Petronin, released in the company of other ...
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15 October 2020
AMERICA/PERU - The reorganization of REPAM continues: Cardinal Barreto new President
Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Pedro Barreto takes over the Presidency of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), succeeding Cardinal Claudio Hummes, in this important service. Cardinal Barreto, Archbishop of Hu ...
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15 October 2020
EUROPE/ARMENIA - Armenian Patriarch Karekin II calls for decisive intervention by the international community in Nagorno-Karabakh
Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) - The Azerbaijani military operations in the Nagorno Karabakh region, "ignore the ceasefire agreement", and confirm the failure of the negotiations carried out so far. In the face of this scenario ...
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15 October 2020
AFRICA - Father Maccalli free: "I have no other offer than the offer of my life"
Madignano (Agenzia Fides) - The desert of the kidnapping "was a time of great silence, of purification, of returning to the origins and the essential. An opportunity to review the film of my life. Every day, especially ...
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14 October 2020
VATICAN - PMS Fund for the Covid emergency: aid to pastoral operators and diocesan mass media in Africa
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Although the Covid-19 pandemic does not stop, causing suffering and death on all continents, the Church continues its work of assistance and charity, especially in those areas of the world ...
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14 October 2020
AFRICA/MALAWI - Towards Mission Day: "Responding generously to the call of the Lord"
Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - "The theme of this year's World Mission Day: Here I am, send me, at first made me think that Pope Francis wanted to address young people in particular", writes to Agenzia Fides Anna Tomasi, of ...
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14 October 2020
AFRICA - The Superior of the SMA: "Fr. Maccalli, man of faith, forgiveness and fraternity"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After two years of silence and solitude, Father Gigi Maccalli needed to feel at home, to feel welcomed and listened to. "He talked for an hour, without ever getting tired", said to Agenzia Fides Fr ...
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14 October 2020
AMERICA/PERU - Reflections of the Bishops of Amazonia on the Encyclical Fratelli tutti
Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - "The text of the new Encyclical Fratelli tutti fits perfectly with the Encyclical Laudato Sì (2015), appealing to the whole world to take care of the Common Home. Now the Pope calls u ...
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14 October 2020
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - From Korea on mission ad gentes: Korean priests sent to Asia and Latin America
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – With the Solemn "Mass of the missionary mandate", the Archdiocese of Seoul celebrated, in this month of October, traditionally dedicated to missionary work, the sending of six new Korean mission ...
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14 October 2020
VATICAN - Interview with the Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith on the eve of World Mission Day
Vatican City - "The Pontifical Mission Societies are entirely dependent on God's Providence, through the free offerings of the faithful. We help the life of the local Churches of mission territories, dependent on the Con ...
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