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  29 April 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops in Assembly on pastoral emergencies, the Pope's help in welcoming migrants Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - From today, April 29th until May 3rd, the Plenary Assembly of the Mexican Bishop’s Conference (CEM) will be held at the headquarters of Casa del Lago in Cuautitlán Izcalli, with the parti ...
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  27 April 2019
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Caritas Almaty: WhatsApp chat to support parents with children with Down syndrome Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - Social networks and new technologies can be of help to the pastoral and social activities of the Catholic Church. This is demonstrated by an initiative of Caritas Almaty, Kazakhstan, which explai ...
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  27 April 2019
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Risen Christ: message of hope for all humanity Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - "The last words of the Gospels speak of peace, joy, forgiveness, praise: let us start talking about these realities, about His resurrection that was shared with all of us. We cannot help but no ...
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  27 April 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Sunday of Divine Mercy dedicated to the victims of the attacks in Sri Lanka New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "In order to offer our closeness and solidarity to the victims of multiple attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, we will observe the Sunday of Divine Mercy, April 28, as a day of prayer and s ...
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  27 April 2019
  AFRICA/BENIN - Tension on the eve of the vote; waves of arbitrary arrests have been denounced Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - Tense electoral vigil in Benin, where the legislative elections will be held tomorrow, Sunday 28 April, in which opposition candidates have been excluded. On March 5, the Electoral Commission ex ...
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  27 April 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "The peace agreement is like a vow made to God", say the leaders of Christian confessions Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "His Holiness Pope Francis kissed the feet of our leaders, as if to say, I am a servant, now you serve your people in South Sudan, this is the true message of Easter" states the Easter message of l ...
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  27 April 2019
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - The Christians of Egypt, between discrimination and transformation The history of the Christians of Egypt is very ancient. The Copts are in fact the heirs of the ancient Egyptians who converted to Christianity, starting from the first century, thanks to the preaching of St. Mark. Until ...
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  26 April 2019
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Archbishop Dal Toso to Vietnamese Bishops: "a Church with a special vocation in the evangelization of Asia" Hochiminh Ville (Agenzia Fides) - "How can we define the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) with a sentence? They are a worldwide network at the Pope's service to sustain the mission and the young Churches with prayer an ...
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  26 April 2019
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - PMS Director in Sri Lanka: "The faithful killed are blessed by God. They are martyrs for our Church" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "It is truly sad and heartbreaking to have seen the devastation on a Holy Day like Easter Sunday 2019: it is our black Sunday. The Catholic faithful participated in the Holy Eucharist in the chu ...
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  26 April 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A global initiative of religious journalism New York (Agenzia Fides) - Religion News Foundation (RNF), Religion News Service (RNS), Associated Press (AP) and The Conversation announced a global religion journalism initiative to grow and strengthen religion, ethics ...
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  26 April 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - If workers cannot go to church, we bring the church to the company Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Personal parishes for companies" are an initiative born shortly before the arrival, at the head of the Archdiocese of Mexico City, of Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, and supported by him. The ...
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  26 April 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - "May the care of the elderly and the sick be a priority for candidates in the elections" asks Catholic Health Australia Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The Prime Minister has announced that the federal elections will be held on May 18th. The next few weeks will therefore be very important for Catholic Health Australia, to continue to ask politi ...
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  26 April 2019
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Now a civilian government" asks the population; the Church: "stop discrimination against Christians" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "A civil society movement has for the first time brought all Sudanese people together, and the church is part of it", said Bishop Yunan Tombe Trille Kuku of the Diocese of El-Obeid in south-cen ...
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  25 April 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic Bishops’ shows solidarity to the Sri Lankans after the horrific attacks Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) of Catholic Bishops Conference of Pakistan has strongly condemns these horrific and deadly attacks on people of Sri Lanka held on Easter S ...
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  25 April 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops on changes regarding the electoral law: "What values guide our democracy?" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "A reflective, serious, responsible and objective debate of political leaders, in dialogue with society", is what the Bishops of Paraguay ask for on the occasion of the discussion in Parliament ...