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  21 September 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Civil authorities grant permission to use the home of a deceased Catholic priest as a cultural center Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to the authorization received from civil authorities of Central Java, the project to transform the house that belonged to the family of late father Gregorius Utomo (1929-2020) - one of t ...
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  19 September 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Suicides on the rise: the Church offers online psychosocial support to people in difficulty New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Psychological disorders, depression and social isolation are a phenomenon that the pandemic has exacerbated. For this reason, the Catholic Church in India has launched an articulated program o ...
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  19 September 2020
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Towards World Mission Day: support for missionaries who "remain" and announce the Gospel in difficult situations Friborg (Agenzia Fides) - "We will not give up and we will stay here": this phrase, repeated in different languages by about thirty men and women on mission in more than twenty-five countries, is the heart of the message ...
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  19 September 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Africa, the sisters of the Good Shepherd alongside the exploited of cobalt Lualaba (Agenzia Fides) - "It was the bishop of Kolwezi who asked us to come here in 2012, worried about the living conditions of the population, especially children. When we first arrived, there were very few people aro ...
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  19 September 2020
  AFRICA/MAURITIUS - A Salesian missionary: at work with young people so as not to waste the heritage left by the Pope's visit Port Louis (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pope's visit, one year ago, left an indelible mark in Mauritius. Unfortunately, the pandemic arrived a few months later and blocked the Church's plans to put Francis' words into practice ...
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  19 September 2020
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The Archbishop of Santo Domingo: Church and government must work together in the fight against crime Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities need to find an effective way to fight crime and insecurity affecting society. And, on the front of education to legality and a culture of mutual respect, justice and peace ...
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  18 September 2020
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Bishops: "Against the viruses that have condemned us to poverty and death, we have the antibodies of justice, charity and solidarity" Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - "In the midst of uncertainty, we are in a time of grace, which offers us a historic opportunity to rebuild the social fabric and establish another dynamic that makes us more human, more cari ...
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  18 September 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Tornado damages 72 houses and the church in a neighborhood of Managua Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in the neighborhood of Monseñor Lezcano, in Managua, suffered serious damage due to a tornado that hit the area yesterday morning. The tornado occurred ...
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  18 September 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Middle East Council of Churches meets to choose the new Secretary Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Executive Committee of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) meets today Friday 18 September in Bkerké, at the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchate, to elect the new Secretary Gen ...
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  18 September 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Towards World Mission Day: the Church in Malawi on Radio Maria Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Malawi has started preparation for World Mission Day which this year is celebrated on October 18, with new forms due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It was in fact decided to m ...
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  18 September 2020
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Bishops to the government: "a social market economy" to eradicate poverty Dodoma (Agenzia Fides) - The Tanzanian government must adopt a new economic model, that of the "social market economy", which aims to have a nation with sustainable and inclusive economic growth. This is what the Tanzani ...
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  18 September 2020
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Interreligious celebrations and prayer for the nation: all united in the fight against the pandemic Sarawak (Agenzia Fides) - Prayer unites believers of different religions in Malaysia and increases the spirit of coexistence and national unity. In this context, various religious communities in the Malaysian state of Sa ...
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  18 September 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Solidarity campaign "Together for Cabo Delgado" to assist over 250,000 displaced people in the diocese of Pemba Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Together for Cabo Delgado". This is the international solidarity campaign launched in July by the diocese of Pemba, in the province of Cabo Delgado, in the north of Mozambique, devastated by the ...
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  17 September 2020
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Sacred Heart of Jesus statue destroyed in St. Patrick Cathedral El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - A vandal destroyed a statue of Jesus at St. Patrick Cathedral in El Paso, Texas on Tuesday morning, September 15. According to the diocese, someone entered the sanctuary of St. Patrick’s Cathe ...
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  17 September 2020
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - Towards Mission Sunday: "Mission before a territory is a way of life", says a Salesian missionary in Vilnius Vilnius (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Massimo Bianco, a Salesian of Don Bosco (SDB), has been a missionary in Lithuania for twenty years. He is 57 years old, lives and works in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, in a large sub ...