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  13 November 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A priest: "Asia Bibi was freed by an order from the Supreme Court, not by the Pope" Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "In Asia Bibi’s case it was not easy to issue an honest and independent verdict, in the Pakistan context, where people are not ready to face the truth. The Supreme Court examined the case an ...
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  13 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni to the priests of Saurimo: only from the encounter with the Lord one renews the zeal and joy for the mission Saurimo (Agenzia Fides) - "This meeting offers me a favorable opportunity to wholeheartedly thank you for your service, your missionary witness and your commitment to awaken, among your faithful, the missionary awareness ...
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  13 November 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops again denounce the sectarian drifts of Lebanese politics Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The teaching of catechism as an essential part of the mission of proclaiming the Gospel to which the Church is called, is the central theme of the 52nd ordinary session of the Assembly of Cathol ...
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  13 November 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic women are committed to promoting human dignity and prosperity Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesian Catholic women are committed to promoting human dignity, prosperity and harmony in society. This was reiterated by over 600 delegates attending the 20th Congress of the Catholic Women ...
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  12 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Angola calls priests and religious to renew themselves for "a Church where the joy of the Gospel resounds" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I repeat the invitation of the Holy Father to renew, today and now, your personal encounter with Jesus Christ and to let yourselves meet him. Only in this way you can give a new impact to ...
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  12 November 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The four priests kidnapped in southern Nigeria have been released thanks to the police force Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The four priests kidnapped on 6 November near Abraka, near Benin in the Delta State, in southern Nigeria (see Fides 10/11/2018) have regained their freedom. The priests were kidnapped on their wa ...
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  12 November 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Human mobility and migration: a challenge for today's Christians Fr. Delmar Alberto Silva Paez, Scalabrinian, Superior in the province of his congregation that includes Asia and Australia, at the conclusion of the General Chapter of his congregation helps to reflect on the phenomenon ...
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  12 November 2018
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A priest: "The nation needs a strong and stable democracy" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The people of Sri Lanka need a strong and stable democracy": says Father Shankar Pereira, a Catholic priest and human rights activist, to Agenzia Fides, while in the country there is a politica ...
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  12 November 2018
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The situation of migrants is increasingly difficult: the help of a 84-year-old Redemptorist priest Baltimore (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of migrants in the United States is increasingly becoming a "situation at risk" due to the tension created by the caravan of Central American migrants that is now close to the bo ...
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  12 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni's exhortation to the Bishops of Saurimo: "be united and supportive" Saurimo (Agenzia Fides) - A vibrant exhortation to be "united and supportive", to consolidate the spirit of ecclesial and fraternal communion and solicitude for the sister Churches, so that the ministry is fruitful, was ...
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  9 November 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Bishops: "overcoming formal democracy and deepening participatory democracy" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "For years we have asked to overcome a purely formal democracy and deepen participatory democracy", said the President of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference (CEB), Mgr. Ricardo Centellas, Bish ...
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  9 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Angola and São Tomé for the 50th anniversary of the Episcopal Conference Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, will be on a pastoral visit in Angola and the archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe from 10 to ...
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  9 November 2018
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Two ex presidents neck and neck in Madagascar elections Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Madagascar is waiting for the final results of the first round of the presidential elections held on 7 November. According to a first partial count, announced yesterday, by the Independent ...
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  9 November 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - US Churches write to Pompey: no to Israeli law on the confiscation of ecclesiastical properties Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Dozens of heads of churches in the United States sent a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressing concern over the 'Properties Bill,' which has recently been advanced in the Knes ...
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  9 November 2018
  VATICAN - "Being Church is the basis of every collection of funds for missions": the reflection of the Pontifical Mission Societies Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The basis of fundraising comes from the Gospel itself: when one thinks of donations, the offerings to be devolved to the missions of the Church, we must go back to the roots to find the motivation ...