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  15 September 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - "Bringing the face of Jesus to the most abandoned places": the Sisters of the Holy Face and their mission among the last Koting (Agenzia Fides) - "It was October 24, 1991. My Congregation sent me as a missionary to Flores, a small island in Indonesia that I had never heard of". Thus begins the story of Sr. Aloisia dal Bo, from the Congrega ...
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  15 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - The 90th edition of the PIME "Missionary Congress" dedicated to Papua New Guinea, 170 years after the arrival of the first missionaries Milan (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations of the ninetieth edition of the missionary "Congress" of PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) begin on Saturday 18 September, which will culminate in the Holy Mass, on ...
• 15 September 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The split within the Vice President's movement weakens the peace agreement Juba (Agenzia Fides) - At least 20 soldiers were killed on September 13 during new clashes between rival factions of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army/Opposition Movement (SPLM-IO), the main opposition group in South ...
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  15 September 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Anti-Covid measures loosened, Maronite Church returns to receiving communion on the tongue Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - While in Lebanon the spread of infections from Covid-19 seems to be weakening, emergency measures are beginning to be removed in the Maronite Church regarding the methods of administering the sa ...
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  14 September 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Brazilian bishops launch call for funds for Haiti Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "It's time to take care" is the theme of a Caritas campaign that proved to be an effective tool, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, to ensure a Samaritan presence of the Church in the liv ...
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  14 September 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Scalabrini Missionary Sisters open new mission in Davao Davao (Agenzia Fides) - The Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters open a new mission in the Philippines, in Davao. After Quezon City and Manila, Davao is the third most populous city in the Philippines: It has more than one an ...
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  14 September 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cardinals Yeom: "Peace requires an open heart" Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - Peace on the Korean Peninsula is a great challenge and a great obligation for the Catholic Church in Korea. This was emphasized by Cardinal Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul and Apostolic Admi ...
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  14 September 2021
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - World Mission Sunday Campaign supports the work of religious sisters in Thailand with children in need Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Australia (“Catholic Mission Australia”) launched a call for donations for the work of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Thailand for the campaign for Wo ...
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  14 September 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Diocese of Lira founds new parishes Lira (Agenzia Fides) - The need to create new parishes in the diocese of Lira was confirmed in response to the requests of Christians in need of spiritual support from pastoral workers. In the note from the Bishops sent ...
• 14 September 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - "A whole generation grows up amid death and destruction" due to the violence of the jihadists Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "In the Tillabéri region of Niger, an entire generation is growing up in the midst of death and destruction", denounces Amnesty International's deputy director for emergency relief, Matt Wells. ...
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  14 September 2021
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - Pope Francis: "The authentic Christian witness comes to life from the mysterious triumph of the Cross of Christ" Prešov (Agenzia Fides) - The mission of the Church does not pursue the worldly ways of "triumphalism" and self-affirmation. Every authentic Christian witness comes to life from the mysterious triumph of the Cross of Chr ...
• 14 September 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped from a village in northern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Luka Benson Yakusak, parish priest of St. Matthew parish in Anchuna, in Ikulu Chiefdom, in the local government area of Zangon Kataf of the State of Kaduna, in northern Nigeria was kidnapped b ...
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  13 September 2021
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Pope Francis in Budapest: the Eucharist frees us from false messianisms Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - The church "comes from the source that is Christ and is sent so that the Gospel, like a river of living water, may reach the aridity of the world and of the heart of man". And the apostolic wor ...
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  13 September 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Apostolic Vicar of Chaco calls for greater government commitment against violence and for the release of the kidnapped Alto Paraguay (Agenzia Fides) - The Vicar Apostolic of Chaco, Bishop Gabriel Escobar, has called on the Paraguayan government to do more to ensure the safe return of those kidnapped by the armed group in the north of the ...
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  13 September 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The dream of St. Camillus continues: the first church dedicated to the Saint in the district of Okara Okara (Agenzia Fides) - "A house of prayer, a place of worship where one can connect with God and where other activities that are not prayer and spiritual are not allowed" declared Mgr. Indrias Rehmat, Bishop of Faisalab ...