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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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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  23 October 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Archbishop of Khartoum: "Stop ethnic clashes among South Sudanese in refugee camps" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "We are trying to make people live in peace because people are still fighting even in the camps", said His Exc. Mgr. Michael Didi Adgum Mangoria, Archbishop of Khartoum, referring to the situat ...
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  23 October 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishops for the elections of November 5: We must become protagonists of our country Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Fifteen days before the municipal elections, set for November 5, the Nicaraguan Bishops publish a message saying that nothing has changed in the electoral system of the country, but they call ...
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  21 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - In December an "exploratory" expedition of Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi on "The Path of the Holy Family" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In the first days of December, a qualified delegation of Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi (ORP) will visit Egypt to carry out a first expedition in the places crossed by the "Path of the Holy Family", t ...
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  21 October 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - No more child brides: Supreme Court’s verdict on women's rights New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The attitude of the Baratiya Janata Party (BJP) government and the Sangh Parivar on the issue of women indicates a tacit approval of discrimination against women": says to Agenzia Fides Fathe ...
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  21 October 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - A twenty-five year old Church: the challenges of Mission in Mongolia The Catholic Church in Mongolia has just recently celebrated 25 years of its presence. The first Catholic community was founded in the capital Ulaanbaatar only in 1992, shortly after the Mongol government had initiated d ...
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  20 October 2017
  VATICAN - Dossier for World Mission Day: the number of Catholics in the world is increasing Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The number of Catholics in the world is increasing: almost one billion and 300 million, 17.7% of the world's population. According to figures from the Church’s Book o ...
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  20 October 2017
  VATICAN - The Cloister is mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Teresa of Lisieux wanted 'to be love in the heart of the Church'. Today cloistered nuns are like a heart pumping blood, that is, the charity of Christ, to the entire bod ...
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  20 October 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Mgr Kaigama to the Fulani and the Irigwe after the massacre of 29 people: "Speak to each other in order to seek peace" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "For over two years now, Plateau State has enjoyed happy and peaceful coexistence... but peace has unfortunately been rudely interrupted by the outburst of recent killings in Bassa Local Government ...
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  20 October 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The "historical" problem of crop replacement is still open Tumaco (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Orlando Olave Villanoba, Bishop of Tumaco, said that the only way out of the crisis for this region of the department of Nariño is to implement a comprehensive plan of investment, educati ...
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  20 October 2017
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni at the presentation of World Mission Day: "the first evangelizer is Christ himself" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The first evangelizer is Christ himself". Jesus "does not abandon the missionary nature of the Church", but "remains present" in the apostolic work accomplished by his disciples, which is not "a t ...