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25 October 2017
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishop: "We mourn for two Catholic students, but Marawi will be re-built"
Marawi (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we have mixed feelings. We are happy for the end of the conflict in Marawi, because a new era of hope opens up. We are mourning for the deaths of two Catholic students who were taken hosta ...
25 October 2017
ASIA/JAPAN - Resignation of the Archbishop of Tokyo and appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Tokyo, Japan, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Peter Takeo Okada. The Pope appointed His Exc. Mg ...
25 October 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Churches also involved in the campaign in favor of a second presidential term for Sisi
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egypt's presidential elections are scheduled for 2018, but Egyptian intellectuals and public figures have already begun promoting press and social media campaigns to re-elect President Abdel Fatta ...
24 October 2017
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Venezuelan ad gentes missionaries leave for Mozambique
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In response to the invitation that Pope Francis constantly addresses to announce the Good News of God in all the most remote corners of the Earth, the pilgrim Church in Venezuela has just sent t ...
24 October 2017
ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - A Jesuit: positive elections, but the path to democracy remains long
Jalalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The presidential elections held on October 15 were "the first free and peaceful elections in the country" and marked a crucial milestone for the strengthening of the concept of democracy throu ...
24 October 2017
AMERICA/BRAZIL - To look at every man, woman, and every child who emigrates with confidence
São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Joseph Marchetti, scalabrinian, co-founder of the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters, left Italy to go to Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century, to directly help thousands of emigrant ...
24 October 2017
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of the Apostolic Administrator of Gweru
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Pope Francis has appointed His Exc. Mgr. Michael Dixon Bhasera, Bishop of Masvingo as Apostolic Administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sancate" in Gweru (Zimbabwe). (SL) (Agenzia Fi ...
24 October 2017
ASIA/TURKEY - A candidate from the Jewish community will likely be the next representative of non-Muslim Foundations
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The election of the representative of the non-Muslim Foundations of Turkey is scheduled for December 24, but the various members present in the decision-making bodies of the Foundations Network ...
24 October 2017
ASIA/INDIA - Christians in Orissa: evangelical beatitude and missionary impulse
Cuttack (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in the Indian state of Orissa (or Odisha), while experiencing a state of suffering and discomfort, have a strong and clear awareness of being missionaries because they are baptized. A ...
24 October 2017
AFRICA/NIGER - A missionary: "The challenge of Pope Francis: a border Church without borders"
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The words used in the Letter from Pope Francis to Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples on the occasion of the Centenary of Pope Benedict's Miss ...
24 October 2017
AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic priest killed; tension increases on the eve of the presidential vote
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A Kenyan priest was killed: Fr. Evans Juma Oduor, who was found unconscious on Sunday evening, October 22 near a sugar cane plant near Chiga Market Center in Muhoroni, 30 km from the Convent of ...
23 October 2017
VATICAN - Extraordinary Missionary Month "May we be open to the joyful newness of the Gospel"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today World Mission Day is celebrated, on the theme 'Mission at the Heart of the Church'. I urge everyone to live the joy of mission by witnessing the Gospel in the environs where each one ...
23 October 2017
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Extraordinary missionary Month: today Pakistanis have the task of proclaiming the Gospel
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "In Pakistan, Christianity arrived about 150 years thanks to European and American missionaries, Franciscans, Dominicans and other religious orders. The missionaries did so much for us, they buil ...
23 October 2017
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Church in Korea: mission is to fulfill the will of God
Daejeon (Agenzia Fides) - The "Extraordinary Missionary Month" will renew the apostolic impetus in the Korean Catholic community and will be an impulse to continue in the proclamation of the Gospel, which in Korea has it ...
23 October 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - In Kurdistan 32 parties - including eight Christian political acronyms - condemn the "military reaction" of Baghdad and defend the "independent" line
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of 32 political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan, including at least 8 Christian-led political organizations, gathered in Erbil yesterday, Sunday, October 22, and signed a document of su ...
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