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  10 September 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Mikati announces the formation of the government. Father Zgheib: perhaps the Pope's visit becomes more possible Beirut - Agenzia Fides) - After more than a year of stalemate, Lebanon has a new government. The Sunni Najib Mikati, who since last July 26, had been tasked with forming a new government from President Michel Aoun, after ...
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  9 September 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Against polarization and division: empower individuals, families, and communities to be bridgebuilders across perspectives Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has launched a new initiative today aimed at addressing polarization in society. Based on Pope Francis’ call in his encyclical, Frat ...
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  9 September 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Catholic cable TV starts in the State of Meghalaya Shillong (Agenzia Fides) - In September a new Catholic cable TV started broadcasting in the State of Meghalaya, in north-eastern India. As Fides learned, the channel is called "Don Bosco Media Network" (DBMN) and is mana ...
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  9 September 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Missionary Community, share the Word": a new missionary impulse arises from the Word of God La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Bolivia celebrates the Month of the Bible in September, placing particular emphasis on the relationship between the Word of God and the Mission, inviting us to meditate on the book ...
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  9 September 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The army tries to recruit young people who choose to join the resistance forces Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In many regions of Myanmar the regular army is asking village authorities to recruit young people as military assistants, and to help the army in the logistics, especially in combat areas. If the ...
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  9 September 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Mar Awa Royel is the 122nd Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Mar Awa Royel, currently Bishop of the Assyrian diocese of California (USA) and Secretary of the Holy Synod is the 122nd Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. He was elected on Wednesday, ...
• 9 September 2021
  AFRICA/GUINEA - ECOWAS suspends Guinea; Catholic leaders had long warned about the crisis that resulted in the coup Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (CEDEAO/ECOWAS) suspended Guinea from their regional organization after the military coup on Sunday, September 5 (see Fides, 6/9/202 ...
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  8 September 2021
  EUROPE/POLAND - Let us pray with Blessed Father Paolo Manna Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the upcoming 150th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Father Paolo Manna, PIME missionary, born in Avellino on January 16, 1872, founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PM ...
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  8 September 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Criminal gangs kill a priest in Cap Haitien Cap Haitien (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, September 6, in Cap Haitien, in the north of the country, Father André Sylvestre, a 70-year-old priest, was attacked while leaving a bank. Wounded by a group of criminals, he die ...
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  8 September 2021
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Catholics and Buddhists celebrate the "Time of Creation" together Battambang (Agenzia Fides) - In Cambodia the "Time of Creation" is a fruitful opportunity to develop dialogue, friendship and deep interreligious relations between Christians and Buddhists. As Fides learned, from Septemb ...
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  8 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Economy, land of mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York, the Comboni missionary and journalist Father Giulio Albanese, MCCJ will address the issue of the civil economy in the ...
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  8 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Mary Mother of all, regardless of ethnicity or nationality: 25th International Mariological Marian Congress Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Mary between theologies and cultures today" is the theme of the International Mariological Marian Congress, which will take place online, starting from today September 8th to 11th, 2021. Now in i ...
• 8 September 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Endemic insecurity in the 3 eastern provinces is creating a humanitarian drama Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Endemic insecurity in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (North and South Kivu and Ituri) has serious humanitarian consequences. In the province of Ituri alone, according ...
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  8 September 2021
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Russian Metropolitan Hilarion: Orthodox and Catholics share the same faith in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics and Orthodox cannot ordinarily share the sacrament of the Eucharist, because they do not live in full ecclesial communion. But certainly, both Catholics and Orthodox recognize that "i ...
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  8 September 2021
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Cardinal Ranjith: "The government has a duty to promote truth and justice on the Easter massacres, with a transparent investigation" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "We reiterate the request for a transparent investigation, which ascertains instigators and responsibility for the Easter attacks. The Church and the entire nation, shocked by terrorism, have th ...