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16 September 2020
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Towards World Mission Day: a thousand faces for mission
Sydney - (Agenzia Fides) - A thousand faces for mission: with this spirit, which expresses the universality of the Church's mission and the call of all the baptized to be "sent" to proclaim and witness the Gospel, "Catho ...
16 September 2020
AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops in the face of the health and social crisis: "Our commitment is the well-being of Peru"
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "We are experiencing a difficult period due to the Covid-19 pandemic which has caused more than 30 thousand Peruvian deaths and over 700 thousand infected", the Bishops of Peru write in their state ...
16 September 2020
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 'Your Word is a lamp for my feet': first edition of the Bible in Pazande has been delivered
Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - It is an important milestone reached, the culmination of years of hard work, perseverance in missionary work: the first edition of the Bible in the local Pazande language was presented on ...
16 September 2020
ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christian appointed at the top of the National Investment Authority
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Chaldean Christian Suha Daoud Elias al Najjar is the new President of the Iraqi National Investment Authority, a government body also involved in the management of resources made available by fo ...
16 September 2020
AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 50 dead in the gold mine collapse in Kivu
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are those who wonder why a person should work for 3 euros an hour, or harvest tomatoes for one euro per box, or like young people from Kamituga (Kivu, eastern Congo) dig makeshift mines w ...
15 September 2020
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cathedral in Manila reopens, cemeteries close to commemorate the dead
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Manila, in the heart of the area of Intramuros, reopens to the public and to worship on Wednesday 16 September after six months of closure due to the ...
15 September 2020
AMERICA/URUGUAY - Month of September: "the Word of God at the center of our evangelization"
Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - With the motto "The Word of God ... which is now at work in you who believe" (1 Thes 2, 13), the Church in Uruguay, like many other nations of Latin America, celebrates the Month of the Word of ...
15 September 2020
AFRICA/NIGER - Two years after the kidnapping of Fr. Gigi Maccalli: "There is always, somewhere, someone who betrays friends"
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "It was night when they took you away and since then two years of darkness have passed, only interrupted by a short video message on 24 March, the first and for now the only sign of life. There h ...
15 September 2020
EUROPE/ITALY - A priest entirely dedicated to the marginalized has been killed
Como (Agenzia Fides) - "This morning Don Roberto Malgesini was murdered in Como by a homeless man with mental problems": this was announced by the diocese of Como, where the priest, 51 years old, originally from Valtelli ...
15 September 2020
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new Emergency Department at the Catholic hospital in Hyderabad
Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - A new Emergency Department, equipped with cutting-edge technologies, has been inaugurated at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Hyderabad, a Catholic health facility managed by the diocese, with 150 ...
15 September 2020
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Meeting between two Bishops and President Kiir: "Let's work together for peace"
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "A very productive and successful meeting". This is how His Exc. Mgr. Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, defined the meeting together with His Exc. Mgr. Stephen Amenyu, Archb ...
15 September 2020
AFRICA/EGYPT - Grand Imam of al Azhar: Islam and Christianity have never been at the root of wars
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe with certainty that Islam and Christianity have never been the origin of wars and conflicts, but rather religious faiths represent the opposite of conflicts and wars in which they are ...
15 September 2020
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A call to social friendship from the Archbishop of Bogotà: "We cannot remain indifferent"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Friendship is a strong motivation to work, true friendship helps us to overcome frustrations, friendship gives us wisdom. Today in Bogota and Colombia, in the neighborhoods and on the streets, w ...
14 September 2020
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Mgr. Arana: "It is urgent to build a culture of reconciliation, politicians must avoid clashes in this pre-electoral period"
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "An urgency for our time, especially for us Bolivians, is to work to build a culture of reconciliation, where forgiveness, listening and respect allow us to live together, despite our differences ...
14 September 2020
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Towards Mission Sunday - "Here I am send me": the poor and simple in Foya understand
Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "Our small presence, with Fr. Walter Maccalli (Fr. Pierluigi’s brother, kidnapped in Niger two years ago) in the parish of Foya, is important in order to accompany the whole Lofa county in faith" ...
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