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  13 September 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A seminar to promote the role of girls organized by young Catholics Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time to promote the contribution of women in African society and in the Church of Jesus Christ in Africa", emphasizes Msgr. Gabriel Sayaogo, Archbishop of Koupéla, President of the C ...
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  13 September 2023
  ASIA CHINA - Cardinal Zuppi in Beijing: Previous visits by cardinals to the People's Republic of China by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The visit of Cardinal Matteo Zuppi to Beijing, sent on a mission on the official mandate of Pope Francis to try and help find ways of peace in the face of the ongoing war in Uk ...
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  12 September 2023
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - "There is no need to understand an earthquake, there is a need to live": the great lesson of the victims of the earthquake Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - "I have decided to write these lines to report what has happened and is happening these days after the earthquake in Morocco. I know it doesn't sound easy and it isn't! It is not easy to report fr ...
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  12 September 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholic parishes welcome and provide education to displaced children: "Help with prudence, charity and patience, in silence", says the Bishop of Mawlamyine Mawlamyine (Agenzia Fides) - In the parish of Saint Mary of the Assumption in Mawlamyine, southern Myanmar, more than 700 children receive humanitarian assistance and education daily. In other of the 14 parishes of the d ...
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  12 September 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The Taratra project: an initiative of the Episcopal Conference to promote responsible mining exploitation Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - The Taratra project, an initiative of the Conference of Bishops of the Catholic Church of Madagascar, aims at the socio-economic improvement of mining projects in the Atsimo-Andrefana regio ...
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  11 September 2023
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Solidarity of the Catholic community with the victims of the earthquake Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church in Morocco-diocese of Rabat wishes to express its compassion for all the victims, in particular for the Moroccan families who are in mourning or who have injured among their m ...
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  11 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Nigeria continues to hang in the balance and democracy stands on the edge of a precipice" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "As this case moves to the next level, the fate of the country continues to hang in the balance and the future of democracy in our land stands on the edge of a precipice", warns Msgr. Lucius Iweju ...
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  11 September 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - New episodes of violence in the Indian state of Manipur: Christians study the Encyclical "Fratelli Tutti" as a "manual for reconciliation" Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - New violence is recorded in the Indian state of Manipur, the scene of an ethnic conflict which, in recent months, has inflamed the region of North-East India (see Fides, 9/5/2023 and 9/6/2023). A ...
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  9 September 2023
  SOUTH KOREA/VATICAN - Official blessing on September 16th: Statue of St. Andrew Kim Taegon placed in a niche on the outside of St. Peter's Basilica Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A marble statue of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon (1821-1846), the first priest and martyr of Korea, will be placed in an external niche of Saint Peter's Basilica and blessed on September 16th, th ...
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  8 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Attack on a rectory in Kaduna state: seminarian burned alive Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A seminarian named Na'aman Danlami was burned alive when bandits attacked and vandalized the parish of St. Raphael in Fadan Kamantan, in the diocese of Kafanchan, in Kaduna state, northern Nigeria ...
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  8 September 2023
  AFRICA/MALI - New jihadist attack after the two yesterday Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Today, September 8, there was an attack against an army camp near Gao airport, in the northeast of Mali. At the moment, the toll of the attack is unknown, in which several vehicles, including car ...
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  8 September 2023
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Two human rights lawyers arrested and released; the concern of the association of Catholic jurists Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply concerned about the episodes of violence and arrests against lawyers who were doing their duty to assist their clients", states the Association of Catholic Lawyers in Zimbabwe afte ...
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  8 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - The suffering of the poor and the transition in Niamey Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "From July 26 until today, the first ten days of September, here in Niger an unannounced and well-defined regime transition is in force". Father Mauro Armanino, missionary of the Society of Afri ...
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  7 September 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A parliamentary commission to bring truth and justice to the victims of the Easter attacks, while they suffer from the economic crisis Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The victims of the 2019 attacks have the right to truth and justice. This is a call that we cannot abandon and in which we involve civil authorities and international institutions", says Father ...
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  7 September 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Conflicts continue in the Tigray region: demonstrations and arrests on the eve of the Ethiopian New Year Mekele (Agenzia Fides) - Some members of the opposition were arrested in Tigray on the eve of a demonstration scheduled for today, 7 September 2023, in Mekele, against the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF), the rulin ...