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  25 April 2019
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Archbishop Dal Toso in Vietnam to encourage missionary animation Hochiminh Ville (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Giampietro Dal Toso, adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), is in Vietnam, for a visit d ...
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  25 April 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Xenophobic wave ahead of elections: triggered by poverty Durban (Agenzia Fides) - A new xenophobic wave has hit South Africa, while attacks against foreign communities in Durban continue. Gangs of South Africans, mostly poor and unemployed people, attack the homes, shops and a ...
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  24 April 2019
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Mass funeral "with tears and sorrow" of those who lost their lives in the Easter attacks Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Church leaders, Catholic families and people of various religions mourned their loved ones killed in the April 21 bombings, who were buried yesterday, April 23rd. The Archbishop of Colombo, Ca ...
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  24 April 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal Nzapalainga celebrated Easter with 500 prisoners Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "It is our duty to show them tenderness and love" said Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, who celebrated Easter with about five hundred prisoners in Ngaragba prison, in the ca ...
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  24 April 2019
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Politicians who do not know how to be a family man cannot be fathers of the Country Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, in the Dominican Republic, Mgr. Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez, gave his critical view of the political class during the Easter Vigil, ...
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  24 April 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church for the defense of human rights: the Secretary of CEM at the Chamber of Deputies Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "What does the Catholic Church do in Mexico today in favor of the dignity of the human person and the rights that derive from it?" Mgr. Alfonso Miranda Guardiola yesterday answered this and ...
• 24 April 2019
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Resignation of the Bishop of Goma and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 April the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, presented by H.E. Msgr. Théophile Kaboy Rubone ...
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  22 April 2019
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Colombo Cardinal condemns bombs attacks in Sri Lanka Colombo, SRI LANKA -- The Archbishop of Colombo, Albert Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, condemned the deadly attacks on churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday (April 21) in a series of bomb blasts that claimed at least 29 ...
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  16 April 2019
  ASIA / PAKISTAN - Christians ask for the postponement of college exams scheduled for the Easter Triduum Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Department of Education of the province of Sindh has the duty to take into account the dates of religious festivals and to set up the schedule of examinations. It is not difficult to know. ...
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  13 April 2019
  ASIA/INDONESIA - President of the Bishops' Conference: “No to corruption and violence, yes to clean politics” Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – “It is important to differentiate between clean politics, in the highest sense of the word, and electoral competition. In Indonesia healthy politics is overshadowed by pervasive corruption i ...
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  13 April 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Bishops offer support to flood victims Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – “We are here to stand with you to fulfill our duty to help those in need” said His Excellence Monsignor Thomas Luke Msusa, Archbishop of Blantyre and President of the Catholic Bishops’ ...
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  13 April 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Scalabrinians: "The mission in today's world is a call for all Christians" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Evangelization in this great country requires enormous human resources for any ecclesial and social project", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Mario Geremia, Superior of the Scalabrinian missionary c ...
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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 ...