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  17 October 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Synod on Youth: "Need to take into account the situation of young people and the Church in other parts of the world" says Cardinal Napier Vatican City - (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa is losing some of its most gifted young people to migration because of the exploitation of natural resources and the environment ", said His Eminence Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, ...
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  17 October 2018
  ASIA - The young Christians of Asia, ambassadors of peace Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - Young Christians in Asia are called to be "ambassadors of peace" in the various social and political contexts of the Asian nations where they live. This is what emerges from the third meeting ...
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  17 October 2018
  EUROPE/GERMANY - The President of the PMS: "Even from our desks we can be missionaries" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of his visit to Missio-Aachen (see Fides 16/10/2018), Archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMs), this morning, 17 October, presided ...
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  17 October 2018
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The demolition of the village of Khan al Ahmar begins. Appeal of the Episcopal Justice and Peace Commission Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Tuesday, October 16, three bulldozers continued the work of leveling the land around the Bedouin village of Khan al Ahmar, in the occupied West Bank, east of Jerusalem, in an area c ...
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  17 October 2018
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "We are not criminals, we are migrants": three thousand Hondurans fleeing their country San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - They have now traveled about 300 km, from Tegucigalpa (Honduras) to Zacapa (Guatemala): there are about three thousand Hondurans who during their their journey to the United States welco ...
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  16 October 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Presidential run-off, the Church: "Need to protect the Constitution and democracy" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "The Constitution is intended to ensure the exercise of social and individual rights, as supreme values of a fraternal, plural society and without prejudices", and today the Charter "is affecte ...
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  16 October 2018
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Archbishop Dal Toso in Aachen meets the National Directorate of Missio and Missionary Childhood Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) is in Aachen, Germany, for a two-day visit at the National Directorate of Missio and of Missionary Childho ...
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  16 October 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Trial for seven innocent Christians: appeal for their release New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to speed up the judicial process which sees seven innocent Christians of Kandhamal, a district in the Indian state of Orissa, in prison. The seven have been languishing in jail be ...
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  16 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - A young seminarian killed in the English-speaking region Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - A seminarian was killed in one of the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon. According to a statement signed by His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Fontem Esua, Archbishop of Bamenda, the young seminari ...
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  16 October 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Church at the forefront of the anti-poverty week Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian Catholic Church is actively involved in the "Anti-poverty Week", until 20 October 2018. The initiative, which aims to raise awareness on issues related to poverty, was conceived as ...
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  16 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Release Fr. Gigi Maccalli": voices join in the appeal in favor of the kidnapped Italian missionary Crema (Agenzia Fides) - "It is essential for us to express our closeness to the father Gigi Maccalli’s family, to all Madignano who wants to embrace their fellow citizen, sending this message to the Foreign Ministry: w ...
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  15 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Lifeless body of the parish priest who died three days ago has been found Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - Some days after his death, on the afternoon of Saturday 13 October, in Ley del Servicio Civil area (Tijuana), the lifeless body of father Ícmar Arturo Orta was found. This was announced by the ...
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  15 October 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Mgr. Irineu Roman: "to give value to the expressions of faith brought by the people of the Amazon" as the Synod asks Belem (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday October 14th, the second Sunday of the month, the "Cirio de Nazaré" feast was celebrated, as every year in Belem, capital of Pará state and one of the largest cities of the Ama ...
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  15 October 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Strong insecurity in the diocese, while the UN sends contradictory messages", denounces the Bishop of Kaga-Bandoro Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Where is the truth?" asks His Exc. Mgr. Tadeusz Kusy, Bishop of Kaga-Bandoro, in the central-northern part of the Central African Republic, complaining about the lack of transparency on behalf o ...
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  15 October 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Togolese youth to Pope Francis: need to strengthen youth pastoral Lome (Agenzia Fides) - In Togo we need "a concrete and effective accompaniment of young Catholics on behalf of priests", as well as a "strengthening of youth pastoral care". As reported to Fides, these are some of the re ...