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  30 April 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Xenophobia risks bringing us back to the times of apartheid" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "If unjustified violent attacks against migrants and refugees do not stop, South Africans run the risk of becoming like the oppressors of the apartheid era" warns Archbishop Buti Tlhagale o ...
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  30 April 2019
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Bishops’ appeal: "It is necessary to grow together as a people and as a Country, without leaving anyone behind" Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - "In this unscrupulous world where we want to build the walls of division, we want to eliminate all forms of division: only in this way we can build a nation characterized by unity and harmony", s ...
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  30 April 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Social Services Australia: "Citizens vote for the rights of the weakest" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The success of a nation is not measured by the wealth of a few, but by the prosperity of all. Sometimes, the leaders of various Australian political parties have referred to values that speak of ...
• 29 April 2019
  ASIA/JAPAN - Resignation of Bishop of Fukuoka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 April 2019, he Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Fukuoka, Japan, presented by H.E. Msgr. Dominic Ryôji Miyahara. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 29/4 ...
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  29 April 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Five dead and 15,000 displaced: first toll of Cyclone Kenneth, less than a month from Idai Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Hurricane Kenneth made landfall on Thursday 25 April with the force of a Category 4 hurricane, on a scale of up to 5. The strong winds up to 280 km/h hit the northern regions, especially the area ...
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  29 April 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "The news is totally false", the Bishop of Dori tells Fides about the alleged discovery of the body of Fr. Joël Yougbaré Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The news is totally false". Thus, in a conversation with Agenzia Fides, His Exc. Mgr. Laurent Dabiré, Bishop of Dori, decisively denies the news released by some press services of the disc ...
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  29 April 2019
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - "Interreligious dialogue, a necessary basis for a perspective of peace" Colombo - (Agenzia Fides) - The concern of local Muslims is rising in Sri Lanka for possible attacks on the community after the massacre in Catholic churches on Easter Sunday. And while the investigation continues on the ...
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  29 April 2019
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - The testimony of a Slovak with an African heart Bratislava (Agenzia Fides) - Among the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines flight, heading towards Nairobi which crushed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa on Sunday 10 March, in addition to a Kenyan missionary and nu ...
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  29 April 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The martyrs of La Rioja beatified: "they lived and died out of love" La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - "Today the Church is pleased to recognize that Enrique Ángel Angelelli, Bishop of La Rioja, Carlos de Dios Murias, conventual Franciscan, Gabriel Longueville, fidei donum missionary priest, an ...
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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 ...