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5 October 2020
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - World Mission Sunday 2020: "Mission can help us face the challenges of today"
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - With a view to World Mission Sunday 2020, the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States (MISSIO) recall that this event will be celebrated on October 18, together with missionaries ar ...
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5 October 2020
ASIA/MYANMAR - Coronavirus pandemic: Catholic parishes in Yangon help in particular needy families
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic parishes of the Archdiocese of Yangon will provide food to at least 50 poor families in each parish over the next three months. As Fides learns, the aim is to guarantee food security ...
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5 October 2020
AMERICA/PERU - Coronavirus pandemic: Procession in honor of the Señor de los Milagros canceled for the second time in its 300-year history
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - For the second time in the 333-year history of this major religious event, the traditional procession of the Señor de los Milagros ("The Lord of Miracles") in Peru, the largest of its kind in all ...
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5 October 2020
AFRICA/GHANA - Archdiocese of Tamale encourages entrepreneurship among women in rural areas
Accra (Agenzia Fides) – About 1000 women from the Kpandai district in northern Ghana are being supported as part of a project to improve their entrepreneurial skills, which is being carried out by the Catholic Archdioc ...
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5 October 2020
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "The militarization of doctors will push them to flee abroad" says the Bishop of Chinhoyi
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "They bring bloodshed; they kill. Instead of freedom, they bring prison. They bring violence and imprison all those who oppose them. The only thing they know is violence". This is the harsh attac ...
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3 October 2020
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 6th Brazilian Social Week: mobilize society to strengthen democracy
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The chairman of the Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB), Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo of Belo Horizonte (MG), recorded a video to contribute in the participation of the 6th Brazilian ...
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3 October 2020
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishops express disappointment: Congress wants to further reduce the number of refugees
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday evening, the US State Department released its report to Congress recommending the admission of a maximum of 15,000 refugees to the United States in 2021. The report is the first ...
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3 October 2020
EUROPE/ROMANIA - Towards World Mission Sunday 2020: "Every baptized person is responsible for evangelization in the world"
Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - "In the first week of October we invite all believers in Romania to celebrate a novena for the beatification of Pauline Marie Jaricot at home as well, with which we want to revive the mission ...
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3 October 2020
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem: the UN and world leaders must stand up for an end to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing military conflict between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh is again leading to the death of innocent people and the flight of men and women, children and old people from the horrors ...
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3 October 2020
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Sokoto: "In a democracy, political leaders must reflect the diversity of the Country"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I think even the most optimistic Nigerian must conceive that we are nowhere near coming to define the real sense of democracy", said His Exc. Mgr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of Sokoto, in his s ...
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3 October 2020
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Platform of religious leaders for peace and reconciliation launches a series of activities during the electoral period
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The platform of faithful politicians are campaigning for peace, reconciliation, social cohesion and development (PLCRD), a few days before the presidential elections at the end of October and in ...
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2 October 2020
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Senate committee in Pakistan rejected a bill calling for the protection of religious minorities, but will be resubmitted
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - A Senate committee in Pakistan rejected a bill calling for the protection of religious minorities and their rights which therefore will not be scheduled in the Senate's proceedings and will no ...
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2 October 2020
ASIA/TURKEY - Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, intimidation and fears for Turkish Armenians increase
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The resurgence of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan around the Nagorno-Karabakh region is having worrying repercussions on Armenians living in Turkey. On the evening of 29 September, ...
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2 October 2020
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Young Catholics launch a web platform to share the experience of faith
Penang (Agenzia Fides) - "Monday of the Open Mic", where "Mic" stands for "microphone" and the acronym is MOM: this is the name of the new web platform launched by the Diocesan Youth Network of Penang, a diocese in Penin ...
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2 October 2020
AMERICA/CHILE - Catholics and the referendum: the testimony of each one can be a source of peace, brotherhood and unity
Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - A referendum will be held in Chile on October 25th, where citizens will decide whether to amend the Constitution and what mechanism should be used to draft it if its amendment is approved (s ...
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