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  18 March 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians remember the martyrs of the attacks on the churches in Lahore Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Every year when I hear and think about the attack of March 15, 2015, I deeply feel the pain my people faced in Lahore, fearful memories lead me to think that we are not safe in our country": thi ...
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  18 March 2019
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Archbishop of San Salvador: "No to the 1993 draft law, yes to true national reconciliation" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, yesterday expressed his disagreement regarding the current draft law on national reconciliation and asked the deputies to rejec ...
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  18 March 2019
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Moroccan Christians call for greater religious freedom: appeal to the Pope Fés (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis will visit Morocco on March 30-31. The Committee of Moroccan Christians has written to Pope Francis two weeks ahead of his visit, asking for the intervention of the Holy See on a theme ...
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  18 March 2019
  AFRICA - Tropical cyclone Idai causes destruction and death in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A violent cyclone called "Idai" has hit three African states, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, where it has killed at least 157 people in a provisional toll (126 between Mozambique and Malawi , 31 ...
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  16 March 2019
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - A small community founded on the Word of God Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - "When I arrived in Turkmenistan, 22 years ago, there were no Catholic faithful. Over time, I saw a community rise before my eyes. Being a witness of this birth was a great grace of God, because ...
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  16 March 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Official request of the Indian Bishops: postpone the date of the expected vote on Holy Thursday New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of India has written to the Electoral Commission of India, a governmental body that manages the upcoming general elections, officially asking to change one of the dates ...
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  16 March 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: the laity and especially women are involved in roles of responsibility also in the Eastern Churches Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "Common priesthood", shared by all the baptized, animates the vocation and mission proper to the laity and in particular of women in the Church, in the diversity of talents and in the complem ...
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  16 March 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - Six months of silence for father Maccalli, missionary kidnapped: "The only free person among us" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a priest of the Society for African Missions was kidnapped six months ago (see Fides 17/9/2018). "It is an eternity for us. He was taken hostage by strangers who took ...
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  15 March 2019
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Housing for the mentally ill: new project of the Camillian religious in Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "It is sad and deplorable to see the conditions in which mentally ill people live on the island of Flores", says to Agenzia Fides Father Luigi Galvani, a Camillian missionary who has been workin ...
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  15 March 2019
  VATICAN - Missionary Childhood: new role of the newsletter on children's missionary commitment Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Currently, the predominant view is that childhood is not only a preparatory moment that everyone needs in order to grow, but it is a significant period in the journey of the life of the hu ...
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  15 March 2019
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Massacre in the mosques, the local Church: "Horrible act. In society there is peaceful coexistence" Christchurch (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a horrible act, to be strongly condemned. It is something really unexpected for our quiet community in Christchurch. We are shocked, like the whole nation. We express all our solidar ...
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  15 March 2019
  AFRICA/GHANA - Collection and processing of E-Waste can create opportunities for young people Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest potential threat to social cohesion, democratic governance and national security in Ghana and in many parts of the world is youth unemployment", said His Exc. Philip Naameh, Archbish ...
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  14 March 2019
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Towards the Missionary Month: promoting the same vision of the Church that goes forth, strengthening the leadership of the laity Canelones (Agenzia Fides) - In the country with the lowest number of Catholics in Latin America (42% of the population of whom only 1% say they go to mass on Sunday), the missionary impulse is a challenge to dialogue wit ...
• 14 March 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Jean Noël Gossou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 6, 2019, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Jean Noël Gossou, of the clergy of the diocese of Yopoug ...
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  14 March 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The "Project Compassion" of Caritas for world water emergency Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The spirit of Caritas is to help marginalized communities and accompany them to become architects of their future. Our 'Project Compassion' has allowed us to achieve important changes over these ...