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  5 September 2019
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Protecting religious harmony: government and communities agree on changes to the law Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church and the leaders of other religious communities are supportive of the proposed changes to Singapore's religious harmony law. As reported to Agenzia Fides, the Archdiocese of ...
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  5 September 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops have expressed their full support for the denunciation of Israeli drone incursions in Lebanese territory Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Maronite Bishops have expressed their full support for the denunciation of Israeli drone incursions in Lebanese territory presented to the UN Security Council by Lebanese political authoritie ...
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  5 September 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Violence against Nigerian migrants; the Bishops: "This is xenophobia, the police does nothing to prevent it" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Tension between Nigeria and South Africa increases due to the violence against the Nigerian community that lives in the southern African country. South Africa has announced that it has temp ...
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  5 September 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Newark’s Cardinal Tobin joins Catholics protesting immigration detention Newark (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, CSsR, Archbishop of Newark, yesterday joined a demonstration of hundreds of people that took place in Newark to denounce the inhuman treatment of immigrant children. Abo ...
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  4 September 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - A new institute to promote peace and interreligious harmony Patna (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, has inaugurated the new Institute of interreligious dialogue of Rajgir (IRDIR) to promote peace, harmony and solidarity among the different ...
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  4 September 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - Conference of Catholic schools: different approaches to the crisis of non-state schools Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the beginning of the new school year, for the third consecutive year Catholic schools put the situation of severe economic crisis in many private schools at the center of their annu ...
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  4 September 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Enthusiasm for the Pope's video message in Portuguese Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - There is strong enthusiasm in Maputo for the arrival of Pope Francis, whose plane will land on the evening of September 4th. "The video message in which Pope Francis turned to Mozambicans in Port ...
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  4 September 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The martyr Catechists of the Church of Mozambique towards beatification Guiúa (Agenzia Fides) - On March 23, thousands of faithful gathered in the Catechetical Center of Guiúa, diocese of Inhambane, for the conclusion of the diocesan phase of the process of Beatification and Canonization o ...
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  4 September 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Archbishop Dal Toso at the Compostelan Days of Theology: "this world still needs the salvation of Christ" Santiago de Compostela (Agenzia Fides) - "From the Maximum illud to the Extraordinary Missionary Month" is the theme of the report that Archbishop Giampietro Dal Toso, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, prese ...
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  4 September 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Week of prayer for peace and justice announced by the Bishops, in a tense climate Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) has announced a week of prayer for the country with the motto "Justice and peace will kiss each other"; inspired by Psalm 85, which begins on September ...
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  3 September 2019
  EUROPE/IRELAND - The Extraordinary Missionary Month is also part of a social media campaign: #MyMission and #OurMission Dublin (Agenzia Fides) - With a little help from "Eirinn the Lamb", which was the mascot of the World Meeting of Families held last year in Dublin, the National Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Ireland of ...
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  AFRICA/CABO VERDE - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Evanildo Tavares dos Reis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 31, 2019 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Evanildo Tavares dos Reis, of the diocese of Mindelo as National Dire ...
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  3 September 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Christians are living the "Time of Creation" to safeguard the common home Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Urgent action is needed to safeguard our common home. Phenomena like the terrible fires of the Amazon, the impact of prolonged drought, the destruction of the Murray-Darling basin and the rise o ...
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  3 September 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Attacks on churches increase: Christians protest New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians are victims of violence in India. We are fighting for our fundamental rights: the right to worship and religious freedom as citizens of this country. Therefore we are here to prote ...
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  3 September 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Week for Peace while a revival of armed conflict is feared Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The 32nd edition of the "Week for Peace" has opened in Colombia, an initiative that seeks to make the efforts of many Colombians working to build a country of peace and reconciliation visible. "I ...