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  23 September 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic universities close amid Covid-19 second wave Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The second wave of the pandemic in Asia has also hit Southeast Asia with force, obliging all Countries to run for cover, reducing, among other public activities, those in the education sector. I ...
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  22 September 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Electoral campaign under the shadow of the pandemic and war Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - While there is an exponential increase in the cases of Covid-19 and the conflict on the north-western front of the country does not cease, the electoral campaign for the legislative elections of ...
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  22 September 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Towards Mission Sunday - The National Director of the PMS: "Become messengers of peace and mercy" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "Pope Francis asks us to pray to promote the universal missionary spirit: it is necessary to give impetus to cooperation to harmonize missionary forces and live the human and intercultural experi ...
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  22 September 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Consternation of the Bishops after the latest massacres: "enough with this mechanism of death" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - After the new massacres of six young people in the rural area of the municipality of Buenos Aires (Cauca) and four other people in the municipalities of Mosquera and El Charco (Nariño), which a ...
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  22 September 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The celebration of the Missionary Month: the involvement of the local media Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "To celebrate the month of October, the month of mission in the Church, we wanted to direct our action on the media", said Fr. Jean Noel Gossou, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Socie ...
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  22 September 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Being a politician according to the Gospel": reflections in time of elections and in the midst of the pandemic La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "Being a Christian politician implies a commitment above all to Jesus Christ: in discipleship, following and in the mission of rebuilding today's society, according to the heart of God. Belonging ...
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  22 September 2020
  AMERICA - Virtual meeting of the Presidents of the American Bishops' Conferences Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "A service under the sign of missionary synodality, integral conversion, with a prophetic voice, decentralized and with an integrative continental vision and the articulation and integration of ecc ...
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  22 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "All human beings are created in the image of God, no tribe is better than other tribes" says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "As the world celebrates International Day for Peace, we in South Sudan are at the forefront because we know the bitterness of the absence of peace. Since the birth of this new republic, we citizen ...
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  21 September 2020
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Towards Mission Sunday: a painting to learn about the life and work of Pauline Jaricot Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - A painting of the venerable servant of God Pauline Jaricot (1799-1862) will have a place of honor on the wall in the meeting room of the National Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PM ...
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  21 September 2020
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishops: "the first work of charity today is to follow the indications of the civil and ecclesiastical authorities" Villarrica (Agenzia Fides) - "Our Country is going through a very difficult period because of the number of infected and dead due to the Covid-19 disease, a situation that is particularly serious in Asunción, Central an ...
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  21 September 2020
  ASIA/NEPAL - Evangelizing with the Word, in times of pandemic: online Bible courses for lay people Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The Word of God as a seed and first instrument of mission: it is with this spirit that the Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal launched an online biblical course specifically dedicated to the laity t ...
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  21 September 2020
  VATICAN - International Day for Peace: the human person above all interests Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - " Peace cannot be attained without the courageous selfless act of putting the human person and the human condition above any other vested interests", reads the note from Caritas Internation ...
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  21 September 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - A new Director General of the Catholic National Radio Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "At the end of the recruitment process for the position of Director of National Catholic Radio, the President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Ivory Coast, His Exc. Mgr. Ignace Bessi ...
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  21 September 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - New surge in violence: the body of a young Catholic found Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "The death of young Bryan José, from our city of Matagalpa, once again shakes Nicaraguan society. He belonged to our 'Pastorale Cristo Joven' of the Cathedral and his parents work with us in ...
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  21 September 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Religious leaders united in defending the sacredness of life: no to abortion Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Malawi (ECM) and other religious bodies, such as the Council of Churches of Malawi (MCC), the Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM), the Muslim Association of Malaw ...