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• 16 October 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Resignation and appointment of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On October 16, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, presented by Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédr ...
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  14 October 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Mission is a give and take: Korean missionaries in Japan and Filipino church members in Korea Seoul (Fides News Agency) - Today, more than ever, the mission of evangelisation is based on a dynamic of give and take, as an exchange of gifts.This is also evident in the Catholic faith community in Korea, which today, ...
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  14 October 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - "It is not the poor who need us, but we who need the poor" Arua (Fides News Agency) - On Oct. 10, 2023 in Arua located in northern Uganda, about 25 members living the spirituality of St. Daniel Comboni gathered to thank God for giving the Church and the world the great missionar ...
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  13 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 40 days of fasting and prayer for the unity of the country Abuja (Fides News Agency) - "One of the things that caused tension during the last election period was the fact that many Christians in Nigeria were frightened by the idea that a President and a Vice-President, both Musl ...
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  13 October 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Amid dancing and sharing, the new pastoral year begins in the Bayaca Pygmy community Monasao (Fides News Agency) - "For the beginning of the catechesis for catechumens, young people and adults who, accompanied by our catechists, are preparing for the sacraments - in Monasao there are about 200, in the ot ...
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  13 October 2023
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Preparing for World Mission Sunday: Webinar on the Pope's message and "Missionary night" Taipei (Fides News agency) - With a webinar in Chinese on Pope Francis' message for World Mission Sunday 2023, the National Directorate of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Taiwan aims with this unprecedented event to ...
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  12 October 2023
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The prayer of the Rosary, a privileged way to prepare for World Mission Day Algiers (Fides News Agency) - The prayer of the Rosary is at the heart of the initiatives of preparation launched, among others, in the framework of a Week of World Mission (16 October - 22 October) by the Pontifical Mis ...
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  12 October 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic Patriarchs of the Middle East Invite for Prayer and Call for Implementation of the International Resolutions of the United Nations Rome (Fides News Agency) - The Catholic Patriarchs of the Middle East call on the sons and daughters of their Churches to "intensify prayers" to implore the Lord Jesus Christ to restore peace to the land where he himself ...
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  12 October 2023
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Christians stand with the suffering people in the Holy Land Aleppo (Fides News Agency) - "We are close to the people who suffer from the violence and war in the Holy Land. We can only pray for peace. We unite ourselves spiritually and concretely with all the faithful who will cel ...
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  12 October 2023
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - After landslide in Mbankolo: Archbishop of Yaoundé mourns victims Yaoundé (Fides News Agency ) - "We decided to come here to comfort these people and let them know that together we are in the same situation. We will give them more help, spiritually and socially. We will come back to l ...
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  11 October 2023
  VATICAN - "Forgiveness liberated her" Pope's Catechesis on Josephine Bakhita, the slave proclaimed a saint Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The "vocation" of the oppressed, he said, is to liberate also their oppressors through the miracle of forgiveness, "opening paths of hope and making change possible". Pope Francis stres ...
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  11 October 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Death penalty is always a loss: civil society calls for abolition Seoul (Fides News Agency) - While the Korean Ministry of Justice has transferred two death row inmates to Seoul Detention Center, where executions could be carried out for the first time in 26 years, numerous voices and ...
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  11 October 2023
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The plight of Malawi's 15,000 children who live on the streets Lilongwe (Fides News Agency) - There are 15,000 children living on the streets in Malawi. A tragedy caused by poverty, family breakdown or HIV/AIDS. It is estimated that there are 1.2 million AIDS orphans in the country ...
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  11 October 2023
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - University as a place of peace: enrollment open for new "Laudato Sì" University in the diocese of Bururi Bururi (Fides News Agency) - After two years of opening the University of the Diocese of Bururi, the official state approval of the Ministry of Education and Scientific Research has taken place in these days. The name of ...
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  11 October 2023
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - The seed of the Pontifical Mission Societies among the priests of the Apostolic Vicariate of North Arabia Manama (Fides News Agency) - To promote the missionary spirit of priests who pastorally accompany the communities of foreign workers in the Arabian Peninsula was the main objective of a talk given by the Secretary Genera ...