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  25 September 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Christus vivit: young Australians to discover their role in the Church Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Hobart Archdiocese will host the fifth Australian Catholic Youth Ministry Convention in July 2020. We will continue what has been a period of intense focus, both locally and internationally, on ...
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  25 September 2019
  AFRICA/TOGO - The sacredness of Creation celebrated by young people for the Extraordinary Missionary Month Kara (Agenzia Fides) - Debates, conferences, days of formation and prayer, protection of the environment, are some of the activities that the youth of the Mary Queen of the World parish in Saoude, in the diocese of Kara, ...
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  25 September 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - We ask forgiveness from the God of life and creation, for the serious wounds inflicted on Chiquitania Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The request for forgiveness from the God of life and Creation, due to the serious wounds caused to nature, biodiversity and the population of Chiquitania, characterized the celebration of the ...
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  25 September 2019
  ASIA/THAILAND - Thai Catholics eager to meet Pope Francis Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Thailand are looking forward to Pope Francis' visit to the Country. Pope Francis will make a three-day visit to Thailand in November, ahead of an already announced trip to Japan fro ...
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  25 September 2019
  AFRICA/ESWATINI - The Extraordinary Missionary Month gives life to an extraordinary year of mission in the diocese of Manzini Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - "Welcoming Pope Francis' call to revive our missionary commitment, I am calling our diocese to deepen on this missionary awareness and commitment by celebrating an “extraordinary mission year� ...
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  24 September 2019
  AMERICA/CANADA - Archbishop Dal Toso to the Bishops: "It is not enough to simply say that the Church is missionary, but we must affirm the objective of the mission" Cornwall (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not enough to simply say that the Church is missionary, but we must affirm the objective of the mission, which is ad gentes, to the peoples, to each person, to bring the announcement of ...
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  24 September 2019
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - The commitment of the Catholic community to the protection of Creation, also with the "culture of recycling" Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic community of Tajikistan is constantly committed to promoting and disseminating practices for the safeguarding of Creation, for sustainable development and for the common good. An ...
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  24 September 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Lynching of tribal people who eat beef: condemnation of civil society Ranchi (Agenzia Fides) - Human rights activists, NGOs and Christian communities, civil society organizations condemn the case of the lynching of three members of a tribal community, one of them a Catholic, killed on Sept ...
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  24 September 2019
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Religious leaders will participate in the great national debate focused on the crisis in the English-speaking regions Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "We were invited to the meeting of the great national debate and we agreed to participate", declared the religious leaders who had organized in August the Anglophone general conference aimed at ...
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  24 September 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The number of churches "legalized" by the Egyptian government rises to 1171 Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In Egypt the process of "legalization" of Christian places of worship built in the past without the necessary permits is proceeding at a rapid pace. In recent days, the governmental committee in c ...
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  24 September 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Migrants: the Scalabrinians set up the itinerant Service in Ventimiglia Ventimiglia (Agenzia Fides) - Three months in Ventimiglia, on the border between France and Italy, to support migrants: this is the new challenge that today has led the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters to be present throu ...
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  23 September 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Parish priest of the Shrine of Our Lady of Health killed during a church robbery Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "It is with regret that the Archdiocese of Brasilia announces the death, on Saturday evening (21/9), of Father Kazimierez Wojno (known as Casimiro), parish priest of the Shrine of Our Lady of H ...
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  23 September 2019
  ASIA/TURKEY - Apostolic Armenian Bishops: candidates resident abroad are not excluded from the election of the new Patriarch Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Exponents of the Commission of the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Constantinople in charge of coordinating and accompanying the entire process for the election of the new Patriarch have exp ...
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  23 September 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - More than 200 cases of violence against Christians in India in 2019 New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - There are over 200 episodes of violence against Christians reported in India in 2019: this is the data sent to Agenzia Fides by the NGO "Alliance Defending Freedom" (ADF) based in New Delhi. I ...
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  23 September 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Ebola: "As religious communities we must encourage the population to trust health professionals", says the Bishop of Goma Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - " We are jubilant at the marvels of medical science in finding a vaccine to cure this deadly disease, but a cure brings no hope if fearful people have no trust in the health teams administering ...