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  4 June 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Cheap electricity, obtained at the cost of the health of coal miners" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We often boast, as a nation, of having cheap electricity, which is based on coal, but its human costs remain invisible", says the Justice and Peace Commission of the Southern African Catho ...
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  4 June 2019
  AFRICA - No to "anesthetized Christianity": there is no Christian mission without a cross Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "One of the great existential orientations of our world today is to want to 'anesthetize' everything. Many Christians in Africa dream of a peaceful life, devoid of all suffering and sacrifices. In ...
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  3 June 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Women, the poor and young: the main challenges of the Mexican Church Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Violence that continues to increase, the lack of job opportunities and the urgent need to improve education, the key to any change, represent the main challenges that the Church has to face. ...
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  3 June 2019
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Pentecostal Christians gathered in prayer Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - More than thirty Christians, members of the Pentecostal Churches, were arrested by security forces in recent days. The police stopped them while they were gathered in prayer in three different pl ...
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  3 June 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - After more than two years since his death, the funeral of Etienne Tshisekedi, historical leader of the opposition Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Heads of State from all over Africa and thousands of people attended the funeral of Etienne Tshisekedi, historical leader of the Congolese opposition, and father of the current President of the ...
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  3 June 2019
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - 2019 Wind of Peace: Young pilgrims ready to walk for peace Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Committee for Reconciliation of the Korean People of the Archdiocese of Seoul has opened registrations for the 2019 Wind of Peace - Pilgrimage of Young People from around the world for peace a ...
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  3 June 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch to Muslims for the Eid al-Fitr festival: let's come out from the dark together, and let’s forgive each other Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Authentic reconciliation, which Iraq urgently needs, manifests itself in putting aside contrasts and forgiving each other with courage. The Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako reiterates this ...
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  1 June 2019
  ASIA - Cardinal Bo: "Need to practice reconciliation and non-violence to counter religious extremism" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - In Asia we must preach peace, promote reconciliation, practice non-violence, to counter religious extremism: said Burmese Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon and president of the Fed ...
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  1 June 2019
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI) Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Society of the Holy Childhood or of Missionary Childhood favors a human and Christian education; helps children develop a missionary spirit, urges them to share faith and material means, espec ...
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  1 June 2019
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "After three years of meetings, visits, listening, study and research of ecclesial elements that could help us in an attempt to formulate proposals for reform concerning the Pontifical Missionary U ...
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  1 June 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The hospital ship named in honor of "Pope Francis" will bring the Gospel and social assistance to the remote areas along the rivers Amazonas Juruti (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscan Friars of Assisi in the Providence of God and the association of lay people who accompany it are completing the preparations to launch, next July, the "Pope Francis" hospital ship ...
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  1 June 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishops say: "Pope Francis' visit will encourage us to overcome national traumas" Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Hope, Peace and Reconciliation" is the motto chosen for the upcoming apostolic visit of the Holy Father in Mozambique, recalls the message of the Mozambican Bishops dedicated to the visit that P ...
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  31 May 2019
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith (PSPF) Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The task of the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Mission Society of the Propagation of the Faith (PSPF) is to coordinate the efforts of the Society in its support for the spread of the ...
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  31 May 2019
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle (PSSPA) Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Faithful to its objectives of providing "quality formation" for future priests, the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle (PSSPA) continued its ordinary work on many levels, said Fr. Guy Bogn ...
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  31 May 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Week of religious freedom: Catholics face challenges and find "strength in hope" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - The chairman of the USCCB’s Committee for Religious Liberty, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, encourages Catholics to pray and act in support of religious liberty at home and abroa ...