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8 September 2020
AFRICA/MALAWI - Bishops call on social media to preach hope
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church in Malawi seriously believes that in compliance with the severe containment measures of Covid-19, including social distancing, Christians must continue to evangelize also t ...
8 September 2020
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - One month of the presidential elections, a conference on "prevention and peaceful management of conflicts"
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Prevention and peaceful management of conflicts", is the theme of the conference held on 6 September at Notre Dame de la Tendresse de la Riviera Golf parish in the archdiocese of Abidjan, orga ...
8 September 2020
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christians and Muslims united to celebrate and act in the "Season of Creation"
Puerto Princesa (Agenzia Fides) - In the spirit of building the common good together, Christian and Muslim volunteers come together to celebrate and live the "Season of Creation", announced by Pope Francis, which began o ...
8 September 2020
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Protests by Bishops and Caritas for violence against humanitarian workers
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela and Caritas Venezuela "firmly reject the violation of the rights and deprivation of freedom of humanitarian ...
8 September 2020
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The National Director of the PMS: "The recognition of the legal personality of the Church is a step forward for a fruitful collaboration"
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "I am very happy because the Church has seen its legal personality recognized", says to Agenzia Fides Don Isidore Sola Nombrè, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Burki ...
7 September 2020
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Kidnapped nuns freed, the Bishop: "We ask for peace"
Mocímboa da Praia (Agenzia Fides) - The two sisters of the congregation of St. Joseph of Chambery kidnapped on 12 August in Mocímboa da Praia (Mozambique) have been freed. This was announced yesterday, September 6, by ...
7 September 2020
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Independence Day: "seeing the many riches that exist in our differences"
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Independence Day should not be experienced as a simple holiday, but as a moment to celebrate the belief that all Brazilians, each with their own difference, depend on each other. A better, mor ...
7 September 2020
AFRICA/TOGO - Towards World Mission Day: "face-to-face" activities resumed
Lomé (Agenzia Fides) – To prepare the pastoral activities of missionary animation in view of missionary October and World Mission Sunday, October 18: with this aim in recent days, the National Director and the diocesa ...
7 September 2020
AMERICA/HONDURAS - Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga for the Month of the Homeland: "Power is service and search for the common good"
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, in his homily during yesterday's mass, referred to the Month of the Homeland that has just begun and to the political ...
7 September 2020
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Armed groups control almost 80% of the territory and threaten our future", denounce the Bishops
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "There are signs of hope, but the continued presence of armed groups threatens the future of the country". This is how the cry of alarm of the Bishops of the Central African Republic contained in ...
7 September 2020
ASIA - Covid-19 and educational emergency: collaboration between governments and the private sector is urgently needed to support families
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on education systems globally. According to UNICEF, the effects of the pandemic have affected more than 1.5 billion students globally, and 1 billion ...
7 September 2020
ASIA/MACAO - From family to family: Claretian missionaries launch an initiative to feed the needy, inspired by Mother Teresa
Macao (Agenzia Fides) - The Claretian missionaries have given life to an initiative to feed the needy in Macao, inspired by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the saint who did so much for the poor and dispossessed in India. As ...
5 September 2020
AFRICA/DR CONGO - A Carmelite: "The Congolese Church plays a fundamental role in the pacification process of the Country"
Lubumbashi (Agenzia Fides) - "Congo is experiencing a profound social crisis, poverty and precariousness: at the origin of these problems, there is the interest of a minority in having all the wealth of the Country. Not ...
5 September 2020
AMERICA/MEXICO - "Schools of forgiveness and reconciliation": the Bishops give new impetus to peaceful coexistence
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - A new pastoral agreement with the aim of promoting the method of the "Schools of Forgiveness and Reconciliation" (ES.PE.RE. is the abbreviation in Spanish), in an ecclesial and popular way s ...
5 September 2020
AFRICA/SUDAN - The Bishop of El Obeid: "After thirty years of war that has disfigured religion, we hope peace does not remain only on paper"
El Obeid (Agenzia Fides) - "People here prefer to be cautious: it is the history of our Country since independence in 1956 to today that obliges us. But the peace agreement covers a large part of Sudan and it is very im ...
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