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  1 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians celebrate the National Day of Prayer to remember Mahatma Gandhi New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, national hero of India, Indian Christians of all confessions celebrate a National Day of Prayer on October 2, in what was proclaimed by the Gene ...
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  1 October 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - World Mission Sunday: evangelization and missionary charity Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelization and charity are an integral part of mission and the Church exists to evangelize and proclaim the love of Christ to people. This is what Father Pontian Kaweesa, National Director o ...
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  30 September 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops to the government: "No" to anti-conversion laws New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of Indian, Catholic and other Christian Bishops met with federal ministers to ask for the repeal of the anti-conversion laws, approved by governments in some states of the Indian ...
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  30 September 2021
  VATICAN - Missionary Month begins: "We cannot but speak about what we have seen and heard" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With the liturgical memorial of Saint Teresa of Lisieux, proclaimed, by Pope Pius XI, Patroness of the missions like Saint Francis Xavier, the month of October, Missionary Month, begins, wh ...
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  30 September 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - Synod 2021-2023: "Do Not Be Bystander": says Bishop Muhatia Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Synod on Synodality, "Is an ecclesial journey that has a soul that is the Holy Spirit", which the Pope will inaugurate next October, 9 and 10, 2021, explains the vice president of the Bishop ...
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  30 September 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Value of life and dignity of the human person are an essential and inalienable foundation of life in society Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "The value of life and the dignity of the human person are an essential and inalienable foundation of life in society" underline the Chilean Bishops after the approval of the bill by the Chambe ...
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  30 September 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Crisis in Christian schools, the Syrian Catholic Patriarch exempts families from paying school fees Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Syrian Catholic Patriarch Ignace Youssef III Younan, has given instructions to exempt the families of Syrian Catholic students who attend schools connected to the Patriarchate from the paymen ...
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  30 September 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian teachers for state schools: launch of a training course Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "Our priority is to train religion teachers and catechists in the authentic teachings of the Church and to help them learn and proclaim the proclamation of the faith. In this intensive course, or ...
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  29 September 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Archbishop Escobar Alas: no to constitutional reform according to an international project on abortion and euthanasia San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar Alas, disapproved last Sunday, September 26, of the constitutional reform proposals in which reference is made to abortion and euthanasia. ...
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  29 September 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Church representatives on upcoming elections: "Citizens should exercise the right to vote responsibly" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Citizens are called upon to exercise their right to vote responsibly while the country is still marked by the pandemic": this is the appeal launched by several Catholic leaders in the Philippine ...
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  29 September 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Churches remain closed: "We must also pay attention to the spiritual economy" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "May our desire for an earthly economy not come at the expense of the spiritual economy", said James Kakura James, Ugandan seminarian, referring to the reopening of public spaces and the permane ...
• 29 September 2021
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Appointment of the Archbishop of Malanje Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed His Exc. Mgr.Luzizila Kiala, currently Bishop of the Diocese of Sumbe, as Metropolitan Archbishop of Malanje (Angola). (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 29/9/2021) ...
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  29 September 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The cause of beatification of Fr. Luigi Bolla, a missionary among the indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Peru, has been opened Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, September 27th, the diocesan process for the beatification and canonization of Father Luigi Bolla (born 1932 in Schio, Italy, and died 2013 in Lima, Peru) was opened in the Archdiocese o ...
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  29 September 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim woman sentenced to death for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - On September 27, a court of first instance (session court) in Lahore sentenced a Muslim woman to death and fined 50,000 rupees (approximately 265 euros) for violating the blasphemy law. According ...
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  29 September 2021
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Patriarch emeritus Michel Sabbah: "The future of Christians in the Middle East is not a question of numbers, but of faith" Antelias (Agenzia Fides) – The questions, and also the uncertainties about the future of Christians in the Middle East, "are not primarily a question of numbers, even if numbers are important, but rather a question of ...