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  6 October 2020
  AFRICA - Covid-19: WHO explains the factors that have led to the low number of cases in Africa Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - "The spread of COVID-19 in Africa has been marked by a relatively low number of infections, which have decreased in the past two months due to various socio-ecological factors and early publ ...
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  6 October 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Towards Mission Day: the prayer of the missionary Rosary in all dioceses Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesian Catholics are living the national "Missionary Rosary Prayer" in the month of October. As Fides has learned, in all 37 dioceses of the nation, the Bishops lead the prayer and invite al ...
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  6 October 2020
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishops: "may this new period of national life be an opportunity to build a different Guatemala" Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) - At the beginning of October, the Bishops of Guatemala published a message "of hope and a call to commitment from Catholics and society" entitled "I saw a new heaven and a new earth" (Ap 21-1). ...
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  6 October 2020
  AFRICA - The CRS: "Economic inequalities and not ethnic tensions are the causes of violence and instability in the Sahel" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Deeply rooted economic inequalities and not ethnic tensions are the causes of violence and instability in the Sahel. This is what the study, entitled "Steps Towards Peace" recently released by Cath ...
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  5 October 2020
  ASIA - Conflicts and violence in Asia: the response of cities and territories Hiroshima (Agenzia Fides) - "Peacekeeping in the Asia-Pacific region has deteriorated due to ongoing conflict, the rise in military spending and a weaker United Nations funding for peacebuilding. However, the murder rate ...
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  5 October 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch welcomes framework agreement on the borders between Lebanon and Israel Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai welcomes the news of a future framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel on the demarcation of land and sea borders between the two Countries. On Sunda ...
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  5 October 2020
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Salesian missionary Father Josef Thannhuber remembered, 100 years after his martyrdom in Brazil Wurmannsquick - (Agenzia Fides) - One of the first German-speaking Salesian missionaries, Fr. Josef Thannhuber (1880-1920), was remembered in his hometown, Wurmannsquick, diocese of Passau, in Bavaria, 100 years after hi ...
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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 ...