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  19 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The 3 kidnapped nuns together with the seminarian and their driver have been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "With gratitude to our great God, the superior general, and the entire members of the Missionary Daughters of Mater Ecclesiae, joyfully announce the safe release of our three kidnapped nuns, a sem ...
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  18 October 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Saint Charles de Foucauld, a witness of Christ before the tabernacle Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I have lost my heart to Jesus of Nazareth", is how the young Charles de Foucauld, who lived as a monk in the desert and was canonized by Pope Francis on May 15, 2022, describes to a friend ...
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  18 October 2023
  VATICAN - The Pontifical Mission Societies on the "path" towards World Mission Day with "burning" hearts Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - There are many different World Mission Month initiatives that the National Directions of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) around the world have launched in these mo ...
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  18 October 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - The apostolic exhortation "Laudate Deum", platform for ecumenical commitment and interreligious dialogue New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Conference of Bishops of the Latin Rite in India (CCBI) draws attention to the contents of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation "Laudate Deum". The document was presented to the dioceses by ...
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  18 October 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Catholic parishes in Beijing pray for peace in the Holy Land in communion with the Pope and the universal Church Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - With Eucharistic adoration, common recitation of the Rosary, fasting and prayer for peace in the world and in the Holy Land, the land of Jesus, the Catholic parishes of Beijing joined Pope Franc ...
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  18 October 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - SABC on the conflict in the Holy Land: Bishops appeal for ceasefire Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We appeal for a ceasefire and that a humane way of dealing with the present situation be found to eliminate further suffering and deaths", says the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Confe ...
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  18 October 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - The missionary Maccalli: While in captivity I understood that peace is not made with weapons Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I am very saddened by what I hear and see in the news. Now the conflict between Israel and Hamas has overshadowed that between Russia and Ukraine, while Sudan hasn't been mentioned for a long time ...
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  17 October 2023
  AFRICA - African governments spend a total of $1 billion per year on surveillance technologies: basic human rights at risk Rome (Agenzia Fides) - African governments spend a total of up to $1 billion a year on surveillance technologies, according to the report "Mapping the supply of surveillance technologies to Africa: case studies from Nige ...
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  17 October 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Praying and fasting for peace in Jerusalem: “Criticism of the Holy See is unjust” Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "We feel completely helpless. All we have left is prayer". This is how Father Frans Bouwen, a Belgian missionary of the White Fathers who has lived in Jerusalem for more than 50 years, describ ...
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  17 October 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Prayer for peace in Nazareth: God's mercy to find an antidote to hatred Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - In the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, the silent prayer of the faithful who join in the Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace in the Middle East, announced for today, October 17, by th ...
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  16 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA- The initiation of the cause for the beatification of Vivian Uchechi Ogu, a 14-year-old killed like St. Maria Goretti Abuja (Fides News Agency) - The Catholic Church in Nigeria has begun the process for the beatification and canonisation of 14-year-old Vivian Uchechi Ogu of Umuelem, Eniogu, who was shot dead Nov. 15, 2009, by gunmen for ...
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  16 October 2023
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Prayer for the reconciliation of the peoples of Israel and Palestine Phnom Penh (Fides News Agency) - A heartfelt, sincere and deeply sympathetic prayer for the Holy Land goes up to God from tiny Cambodia, a country in Southeast Asia where about 20,000 Catholics live, 0.13 percent of the ...
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  16 October 2023
  "C'est la confiance". The missionary soul of Therese of Lisieux in Pope Francis' new apostolic Exhortation by Gianni Valente Rome (Fides News Agency) - "It is confidence and nothing but confidence that must lead us to Love." The phrase taken from a letter of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, quoted in the ...
• 16 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Institution of the diocese of Katsina, Nigeria, and appointment of bishop Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Katsina, Nigeria, by dismembering the diocese of Sokoto, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan See of Kaduna. At the same time, the H ...
• 16 October 2023
  AMERICA/JAMAICA - Resignation of Bishop of Montego Bay Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On October 16, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Montego Bay, Jamaica, presented by Bishop Burchell Alexander McPherson. (EG) (Fid ...