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  13 April 2019
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Asia, a continent of martyrs Martyrs are the seed from which the Church has flourished throughout the History of salvation and today their memory continue to guide the faithful wherever the Christian mission is challenged by hardships, injustices an ...
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  12 April 2019
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Catholic Bishops: "Abortion is always a sin” Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – Bishops of South Korea express “profound regret” for the Contitutional Court decision against a ban that makes abortion illegal, part of a law passed in 1953 that is still enforced. In a lan ...
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  12 April 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “South Sudanese touched by the act of Papa Franceso done in their name.” Juba (Agenzia Fides) – “South Sudanese were left positively stunned as they witnessed Papa Francesco plead on his knees and kiss the feet of politicians of South Sudan. The video and images of the event are circulat ...
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  12 April 2019
  AFRICA - Farewell missionary and journalist Father Paolo Costantini Treviglio (Agenzia Fides) – Missionary and journalist: is how Paolo Costantini defined himself, already an established director of the press agency of Padri Bianchi (Missionaries of Africa) in Brussels, then of the mag ...
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  12 April 2019
  VATICAN - Scalabrinians: "The Pope's words on trafficking testify the need for concrete global policy" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The words of Pope Francis testify that it is absolutely necessary that all countries in the world must stop building walls (ideal and real) and implement a real policy against human trafficking, a ...
• 12 April 2019
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the Rector of "Saint Augustine" philosophical Seminary in the diocese of Kabwe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 7 February 2019, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the Rev . Patrick Banda, of the diocesan clergy of Chipata (Zambia) as ...
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  12 April 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - The government of Burkina Faso: "Fr. Maccalli, is alive". "We are surprised", says a missionary from Niger Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We are surprised because there has been no talk about it", says Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary of the Society of African Missions (SMA), from the capital of Niger, Niamey, on the announcement by ...
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  12 April 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The drama of migrants: 4 reception centers closed, everything falls on the Church and NGOs Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - Just a few hours ago the jury of the World Press Photo 2019 presented the award as best photo of the year to "Crying girl on the border" by John Moore. The winning image was taken on 12 June 201 ...
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  11 April 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Missionary Childhood Day: "We are baptized, we are missionaries" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the National Day of Missionary Childhood (IAM), which in Bolivia will be celebrated on May 5, on the third Sunday of Easter, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) published the materi ...
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  11 April 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The Church in Maiduguri is recovering after the violence in recent years", says the diocesan Director of the PMS Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank God for the current situation in Maiduguri that has improved in recent months", says in an interview with Agenzia Fides Fr. Patrick Solomon Zaku, Diocesan Director of the PMS of Maiduguri ...
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  11 April 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Interreligious assembly: solidarity with Christians killed in Nigeria Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – To condemn the killings and express full solidarity with the Christians in Nigeria: as Agenzia Fides learns the Commission for interreligious dialogue and ecumenism, of the Catholic Bishops' Co ...
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  11 April 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Mgr. Baez called to Rome for a period, as the first anniversary of the crisis draws near Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank Pope Francis who, after confirming my ministry, has asked me to go to Rome for a period. I carry in my heart the joy, the pains and the hopes of my Nicaraguan people. Thank you all for ...
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  11 April 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The fall of Omar al-Bashir could affect the peace agreement in South Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The military overthrow of Sudan’s longtime President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir has raised concerns about whether the upheaval will destabilize neighboring South Sudan’s fragile efforts at peac ...
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  11 April 2019
  ASIA - 50 years of evangelization for Radio Veritas Manila (Agenia Fides) - With the presence of numerous Asian Bishops, the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Radio Veritas takes place in Manila this week, the radio station run by the Catholic Church in Asia, which h ...
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  11 April 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Nearly 900 churches "regularized" by the Egyptian government in less than 3 years Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In Egypt the process of "legalization" of Christian places of worship built in the past without the required permits, along with the granting of permits for the construction of new churches contin ...