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  1 March 2019
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Macky Sall re-elected President in the first round, but the opposition disputes the regularity of the scrutiny Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Senegal's electoral commission says that President Macky Sall has won a second term in office with more than 58 percent of the vote. The other candidates are former Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, ...
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  1 March 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - Young Africans embraced by the Church Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people need people who can inspire them through their lifestyle, not just people who give them instructions". This is what Sr. Lucia Muthini Nderi, of the Congregation of the Daughters of ...
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  1 March 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "No to war for Kashmir": appeal of religious leaders for reconciliation and for a UN mediation Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us work together to promote reconciliation and harmony between India and Pakistan. We ask for the opening of a negotiating table, starting with a decisive 'No' to war. We ask the internation ...
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  28 February 2019
  AMERICA/ ARGENTINA - The Bishops of the Cordoba region: "Let us joyfully live the grace of beatification" Cordoba (Agenzia Fides) - "As has happened so many times in the history of the Church, Providence has united Bishops, laymen and consecrated men in martyrdom. It is the grace that comes from God and is for everyone. It i ...
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  28 February 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishops after the assassination of the indigenous leader: "Stop violence and hatred! The State must protect the indigenous and fulfill their requests" Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop violence and hatred! Stop killing your brothers!" This is the title of the communiqué of the Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (CEP) that expresses the Bishops' position in the country a ...
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  28 February 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias: "We pray and work for peace with Pakistan". Mediation is urgent Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "We pray and work for peace between India and Pakistan, we call on the rulers to choose the path of dialogue, the situation today is very delicate and we must not make false or hurried steps. We ...
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  28 February 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Justice and Peace" Commission: moderation and dialogue between India and Pakistan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Appreciated the moderate and reasonable attitude of Pakistan's military and political leadership. We ask the governments of both India and Pakistan to resume peace talks and resolve all issues t ...
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  28 February 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Evangelising through cinema: 50 years of the Pan-African Festival Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Every year the Ouagadougou Pan-African Film and Television Festival (FESPACO) brings together all the main actors of African cinema. This year, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary, the ...
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  28 February 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - President Aoun at Caritas summit: there is a plan to reshape the Middle East in a racist way Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – One of the major objectives of all the incidents that unfolded over the past years is to make the Middle Eastern societies of Levant racist, unilateral, conflicting and belligerent, that pave ...
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  27 February 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Continental Assembly of the PMS: what does missio ad gentes mean in today's globalized world? Towards the Extraordinary Missionary Month Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The "missionary conversion" of the whole Church requested by Pope Francis was the theme of the Assembly of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies of the American continent, whic ...
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  27 February 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Franciscans on the border with India, on a pilgrimage of peace Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Say "no" to war, bring a message of peace, ask the governments of India and Pakistan not to involve the two peoples in a conflict that would only bring hatred, pain, destruction: with this spirit ...
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  27 February 2019
  ASIA/JORDAN - Ecclesial communities called to sensitize young people on the water emergency Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The German Foundation for International Cooperation (GIZ, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur internationale Zusammenarbeit) sponsored the realization of a study seminar dedicated to the water emergency and ...
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  27 February 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Lasallian Community relaunches the mission on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Founder Bomana (Agenzia Fides) - A conference to revive the mission and take stock of the transformation of the educational communities promoted within the initiatives for the celebrations of the three hundredth anniversary of t ...
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  27 February 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President Buhari re-elected; Church electoral observers report shortcomings in the organization of the vote Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected President of Nigeria, according to the official results of the elections held on 23 February. The main opponent, former Vice President and b ...
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  27 February 2019
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Taiwan to close the Eucharistic Congress, then to Macao and Hong Kong Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, is traveling to Taiwan where he will preside, as Special Envoy of the Holy Father, the closing c ...