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  17 February 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - The Apostolic Nuncio: "To announce the Gospel of mercy in daily life" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The first mission of Bishops and faithful in India is "to announce and live the Gospel in situations of daily life": said Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal ...
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  17 February 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - At least 24 dead in the attack against an evangelical church Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Unidentified armed individuals attacked the Evangelical church in the village of Pansi, located not far from Sebba, in the province of Yahgha, in northern Burkina Faso, yesterday, Sunday 16 ...
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  17 February 2020
  VATICAN - The Pope asks for a year of missionary commitment to the priests candidates for the diplomatic service of the Holy See Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has asked to integrate a year of missionary commitment in a diocese of particular Churches in the training curriculums of the priests candidates for the diplomatic s ...
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  17 February 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishop of Matagalpa presents an "ethical decalogue" for politicians; the release of all prisoners is still awaited Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The passage of the Gospel proclaimed during Masses last Sunday, the "discourse of the mountain" (Mt 5.17-37) which deals with the subject of the fulfillment of the law, gave the cue to Msgr. R ...
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  15 February 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - Father Pier Luigi Maccali: the thorns and flowers of a kidnapping Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "No information, no sign that will help us give a real name to what has happened and to glimpse the path to follow", writes Father Ceferino Cainelli, Provincial Superior of the Society for Africa ...
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  15 February 2020
  VATICAN - The prayer of children is what pleases the Lord: Cardinal Tagle visits Bambino Gesù Hospital Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The first official commitment of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle in Rome, after the appointment as Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was the visit to the children h ...
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  15 February 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another priest kidnapped in Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are sure that he is alive, and since the incident, steps have been taken to ensure that Rev. Fr. Nicholas Oboh is released without any harm", said Fr. Osi Odenore, Chancellor of the Diocese of ...
• 15 February 2020
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Resignation of the Bishop of Bururi and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Bururi, Burundi, presented by Bishop Venant Bacinoni. The Pope has appointed as bishop of the same dio ...
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  15 February 2020
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Coronavirus: Masses and meetings suspended indefinitely in the Archdiocese of Singapore Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - In the fight against the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19), the Archdiocese of Singapore has decided to suspend the celebration of all Masses on Sunday and weekdays from February 15th until ...
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  15 February 2020
  VATICAN - "Cordial meeting" between Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Munich (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States, and Chinese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, met in Munich and had a talk yesterday aft ...
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  15 February 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New tools of discernment for animation, formation and missionary cooperation on the continent Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The first Continental Formation Meeting for professors of Missionology and Ecclesiology is taking place in Mexico City, at the headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) (see Fid ...
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  15 February 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - Three hundred young people from Concepción on a mission to share their faith and their hope Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - About 300 young people from the Chilean Archdiocese of Concepción carried out summer missions in various communities in January and February, in support of the pastoral action that takes pl ...
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  14 February 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Let's free ourselves from indifference and media sensationalism, let's look at the distressing reality of the natives Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - An invitation to look, in the light of the newly published Apostolic Exhortation Querida Amazonia, at "the distressing reality that indigenous and even Creole peoples of the Argentine Chaco ...
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  14 February 2020
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Syrian Parliament recognizes and condemns the Armenian Genocide Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Assembly of the Syrian people, in the session of Thursday 13 February, unanimously approved a resolution that recognizes as "Genocide" the historical tragedy of the massacres of Armenians p ...
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  14 February 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - An "outgoing continent": Missiologists' Seminar, PMS continental assembly and launch of CAM 6 Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Three important events are taking place in Mexico City these days, which concern the pastoral and missionary conversion of the Church on the American continent in the perspective of Pope Fra ...