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  12 March 2019
  EUROPE/FRANCE - The diocesan phase of the cause of beatification of Don Hamel concludes Rouen (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen presided over the final session of the diocesan inquiry into the life and martyrdom of Fr. Jacques Hamel. Fr. Hamel was killed July 26, 2016, when two men sto ...
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  11 March 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - The enemies are hunger and disease: Lenten campaign of Caritas India Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - The enemies to be defeated in India are hunger and diseases: with this approach Caritas India, the humanitarian arm of the Indian Bishops' Conference, is focusing its Lenten campaign this year ...
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  11 March 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - International Women's Day: an occasion for interreligious dialogue Mbata Mbenge (Agenzia Fides) - "Unity among the churches is very important and can pass through women, who are pillars of family life, but also of the life of faith", says Mrs. Josephine Pfiti, promoter of the interrelig ...
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  11 March 2019
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - The Bishop of San José de Mayo: "a pastoral reconfiguration to put everything we are and we have at the service of the mission" San José de Mayo (Agenzia Fides) - "Speaking of pastoral reconfiguration means putting Christ at the center of our lives and our activities. The purpose of pastoral reconfiguration is to put who we are and what we have ...
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  11 March 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - Maronite Bishop of Damascus: Syrian Christian communities are getting older and older Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The Syrian population lives in an undetermined condition, without "peace or war". An uncertain and difficult situation, which is becoming unsustainable for the weakest, and which sees an impres ...
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  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Coadjutor of Abuja Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, currently Archbishop of Jos as Archbishop Coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Abuja (Nigeria). His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Ka ...
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  11 March 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - Lent in prayer for Father Maccalli, six months after his abduction Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The more time passes, the more we must resist the temptation to resign ourselves and to soften our attention. In the diocese we want to continue to propose moments of prayer for the release of F ...
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  11 March 2019
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Conclusions of the Assembly of Bishops: "Let us not allow negativism to paralyze us" Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Panama have published a document at the conclusion of the 209th Plenary Assembly of the Panamanian Episcopal Conference (CEP) held from February 25th to March 1st. "With the h ...
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  8 March 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Itinerant service of the Scalabrinians on the border between Mexico and United States: "there are still too many women who suffer in the world" Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - In conjunction with International Women's Day, 8 March, the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of San Carlo Borromeo (Scalabrinians) launches a new apostolic initiative: the "Itinerant Servi ...
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  8 March 2019
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - The community of baptized people increases in a climate of dialogue and peaceful coexistence Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - "If I were to take stock of the last 10 years, I would say that the Uzbek church has not grown in number but in the composition of people, because many have emigrated and at the same time new g ...
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  8 March 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Missionaries from Asia and America preparing themselves to go to Brazil Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – A Portuguese language course is taking place these days for missionaries starting their work of evangelization in Brazil. The course will last 7 weeks and will end on April 17th. The first me ...
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  8 March 2019
  AFRICA - There is no mission in Africa without women Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "Today in Africa, mission cannot be conceived without direct, close and effective collaboration with women. In our continent women are a fundamental link in the missionary activity of the Church": ...
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  8 March 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Léonie Kandolo, a Catholic woman committed to the common good Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Among the testimonies of Congolese female figures, there is Léonie Kandolo, member and spokesperson of the Committee for the Coordination of the Laity (CLC), a body which was the protagonist d ...
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  8 March 2019
  ASIA - Joint appeal of the Directors of the PMS of India and Pakistan: "Dialogue is urgently needed for the common good of our peoples" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The rulers of India and Pakistan must sit down at a negotiating table and start dialogue sessions to address and resolve the long-standing issue of Kashmir. We are aware that it is an anci ...
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  8 March 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Orthodox priest: negotiations under way in Baghuz for the release of Archbishop Mar Gregorios Baghuz (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian Orthodox priest Samuel Gümüs, engaged in the pastoral care of the Syrian Orthodox communities present in Germany, declared that the Orthodox Syrian Metropolitan of Aleppo, Mar Gregorios ...