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  25 June 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Diploma in Mission Ad Gentes for 22 missionaries: opportunity to prepare the Extraordinary Missionary Month Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - In the context of the preparation for the Missionary Year, organized by the Colombian Bishops' Conference (CEC), inspired by the Extraordinary Missionary Month of October 2019, the Missionary An ...
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  25 June 2019
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - Caritas commitment to society to reduce poverty and educate young people Jalalabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The projects carried out by the Caritas of Kyrgyzstan are many and can be summarized in two large areas: charity and education. Every year, for example, we create annual summer rehabilitation ...
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  25 June 2019
  ASIA/TURKEY - Controversy over a Docu-film dedicated to the "Islamized" Armenians after the 1915 massacres Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The documentary "The hidden Cross", produced by the two journalists Altan Sancar and Serhat Temel, which traces the life of the "Islamized" Armenians after the 1915 massacres in the Diyarbakir ...
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  25 June 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Pilgrims in the Holy Land in view of the Extraordinary Missionary Month Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "To reflect on mission work for the propagation of evangelization and strengthening of Christian values" and "go to the Holy Land to draw on the sources of faith and draw strength for the missi ...
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  24 June 2019
  ASIA/CHINA - Mgr. Stefano Li Side, Bishop of Tianjin: an authentic witness of the Gospel of Christ Tianjin (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of Pentecost, June 8, 2019, at 11 am, His Exc. Mgr. Stefano Li Side, Bishop of the Diocese of Tianjin (Mainland China) passed away. He suffered from a chronic illness for many years, ...
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  24 June 2019
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Prayer as the focus of attention of the lives of the faithful Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - "As every year, in June we had a meeting with all the Catholics of Uzbekistan in our church in Tashkent. The meeting was led by Bishop Clemens Pickel, of the Russian diocese of Saratov, who mad ...
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  24 June 2019
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops meet with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The serious crisis that Venezuela is experiencing, which caused the mass exodus of many Venezuelans, was the subject of the Bishops’ meeting with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...
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  24 June 2019
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Proclaiming the Gospel with courage, as a family: the path of "Couples for Christ" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Proclaiming the Gospel with courage, as families living faith: this is the invitation addressed to the ecclesial movement "Couples for Christ", CFC by Mgr. Broderick S. Pabillo, Auxiliary Bishop ...
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  24 June 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Avoid us another war!”: The Bishops' cry of alarm as the tension rises in view of the 2020 vote Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) - "Among the population there is a widespread climate of fear" denounce the Bishops of Ivory Coast in their message published at the end of their 113th Plenary Assembly in Agboville. "In fac ...
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  24 June 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The Extraordinary Missionary Month at the center of the 78th PMS National Council Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) - The Extraordinary Missionary Month was one of the central themes of the 78th National Council of PMS (Pontifical Mission Societies) of the Ivory Coast, which was held from 11 to 14 June at ...
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  24 June 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Archbishop Garfías Merlos: "Young people are a key element in building peace" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The origin of violence in Mexico is the absence of God in the individual and community life of people, which makes them inhuman and cruel". Thus Mgr. Carlos Garfías Merlos, Archbishop of M ...
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  24 June 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Surveys reveal the worrying increase regarding the Mexican's impatience towards migrants Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Surveys on the opinion of Mexicans regarding migrants in the national territory continue to increase, the results are then disseminated by the media. In five months, from November 2018 to Ap ...
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  24 June 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Melkite Church launches an extensive program of study and dissemination of the Abu Dhabi Document Ain Traz (Agenzia Fides) – The Greek-Melkite Catholic Church is preparing to dedicate ample space to its pastoral planning to the dissemination and deepening of the Document on Human Brotherhood for World Peace and Com ...
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  21 June 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The request for asylum has become a Via crucis for migrants Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "A migration strategy that can go beyond the imposition of tariffs that cause the militarization of borders or the raising of human walls as an immediate response, must be based on human rig ...
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  21 June 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal of civil society: Need to implement the protection of minority rights Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – Need to implement the order of the Supreme Court for the protection of minority rights, issued on June 19, 2014 and has remained a dead letter: is the appeal launched during a conference of ...