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  26 October 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - The Holy See grants the "Nihil Obstat" for the cause of beatification of the 35 martyrs of Odisha Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – For the Catholic Church in India there is a "significant step forward" in the process of beatification of Kanteshwar Digal and Companions, the so-called "35 Martyrs of Kandhamal", who were ...
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  26 October 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Filipino Muslims express solidarity with the Palestinian population Marawi city (Agenzia Fides) - Filipino Muslims express their solidarity with the Palestinian people subjected to bombings in Gaza and call for an end to Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip: the conflict in the Middle East ...
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  26 October 2023
  OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - Leeward Islands: the need to encourage vocations in the church Bora Bora (Agenzia Fides) – “I am in Bora Bora. About fifteen teenagers and their animators are sleeping in the premises of the Blessed John Paul I, the complex, facilities intended for catechesis and parish activiti ...
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  26 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Brother Eze was killed to scare the other two hostages" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – "Brother Godwin Eze was killed to scare the two postulants who were kidnapped with him," say the Benedictines of the Eruku monastery in Kwara state, northern Nigeria to Fides. On the night of Oc ...
• 25 October 2023
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Appointment of bishop of Hamilton Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 25, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Richard Philip James Laurenson, of the clergy of Hamilton, until now parish priest of the All Saints by the Sea parish in Papamoa Coast ...
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  25 October 2023
  VATICAN - The Gospel "is not written on water". Pope Francis re-proposes the missionary work of Cyril and Methodius, "Apostles of the Slavs" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christ's message of salvation can reach every people and every human being only if he speaks in his "mother tongue". Only in this way does the Christian faith show that it is not "foreign" to any p ...
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  25 October 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Young people are entrusted with building peace in North-East India. Prayer for the Middle East, in communion with the Pope Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - Ethnic and cultural diversity, pluralism, different languages and origins are a wealth that must be spent to nourish dialogue, mutual exchange, individual and community growth, openness to vast ...
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  25 October 2023
  OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - The Archbishop of Papeete: the local clergy and the formative turning point Uturoa (Agenzia Fides) - On October 28, the Archbishop of Papeete, Jean Pierre Cottanceau, SS.CC., ordained a young Tahitian priest. Tareva TAITI is the name of the boy who has been a deacon for a year already with a vie ...
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  25 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - One of the three Benedictines killed after the kidnapping on October 17; the other two set free Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Brother Godwin Eze, one of the three Benedictine monks kidnapped by an armed gang on the night of 17 October in Eruku monastery in Kwara State, in central-northern Nigeria, was brutally killed (se ...
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  24 October 2023
  Time is Greater than Space. The Holy See diplomacy and the “Vietnamese lesson” by Victor Gaetan (In the decade 1965-1975, between 790,000 and 1.14 million Vietnamese civilians and soldiers died as a result of war while the US military suffered over 58,000 casualties. Between 1963-1973, the US d ...
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  24 October 2023
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Jubilee of Saint Arethas: all parishes celebrate the Martyrs of Arabia Manama (Agenzia Fides) - There are special events that mark the path of the Catholic Christian community of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia: in particular, today, October 24, all the parishes of the Catholic C ...
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  24 October 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - A new station in the Catholic radio network, in the wake of Radio Veritas by Paolo Affatato Tandang (Agenzia Fides) - The new Catholic radio inaugurated by the Philippine diocese of Tandag is called "Unitas Radio". It is the first Catholic radio station in the Surigao region, on the island ...
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  23 October 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - World Mission Sunday 2023: Catholic communities remember missionaries, who gave their lives to proclaim the Gospel Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Following in the footsteps of the missionaries of the past and with a view to the proclamation of the Gospel in today's China, many Catholic communities in mainland China intensely experienced W ...
• 23 October 2023
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Appointment of Bishop of Oran Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, October 22, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Fr. Davide Carraro, P.I.M.E., until now vicar general of Alger, as bishop of Oran, Algeria. Msgr. Davide Carraro ...
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  23 October 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops of the Great Lakes region call for an end to violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Everything must be done to put an end to the suffering of the people of the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)", say the members of the Association of Bishops' Conferences of Centr ...