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  6 October 2023
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Pre-Election Clashes in Foya Foya (Fides News Agency) - Twenty years ago with the peace agreements signed in Accra, Ghana, one of the bloodiest pages of African history came to an end: the dual Liberian civil war. "The memory of the conflict, of the ...
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  5 October 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenyan delegation presents expectations and hopes of Kenyan Catholics at synod Nairobi ( Fides News Agency) - The expectations and hopes of Kenyan Catholics are being brought to the Assembly of the Synod of Bishops by the Kenyan delegation, represented by the President of the Kenya Conference of Ca ...
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  5 October 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Annalena Tonelli: Somali Church remembers the martyr on the 20th anniversary of her murder Djibouti ( Fides News Agency) - "I chose to be for others: the poor, the suffering, the abandoned, the unloved, which I was as a child and so I have been and I trust to continue until the end of my life. I wanted to foll ...
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  5 October 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Five months after the start of violence in Manipur, a way forward is sought to start peace talks Imphal ( Fides News Agency) - "The path to seek peace is a steep, difficult, impassable one," says Thomas Menamparampil, Archbishop Emeritus of Guwahati who, at the head of the "Manipur Interfaith Forum for Peace and Har ...
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  4 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 5 female students kidnapped from a university hostel in the north of the country Abuja (Fides News Agency ) - At least five female students were abducted by an armed group that attacked a hostel at the Federal University of Dutsin-Ma, in Katsina State, northern Nigeria. Reports indicate that the ass ...
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  4 October 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Severe humanitarian crisis on Sudan-South Sudan border; war in Khartoum continues unabated Khartoum (Fides News Agency) - The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is worsening with strong repercussions in neighboring countries especially South Sudan. The World Food Program (WFP) has sounded the alarm over the looming ...
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  4 October 2023
  VATICAN - The Christian realism of "Laudate Deum" by Gianni Valente Rome (Fides News Agency) - " Praise God” is the title of this letter. For when human beings claim to take God’s place, they become their own worst enemies." These words conclude the new Apostolic ...
• 4 October 2023
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Resignation of Archbishop of Gagnoa Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father accepted the resignation of Bishop of Molegbe Joseph Aké Yapo from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Gagnoa (Ivory Coast). (EG) ( Fides News Agency 04/10/2 ...
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  4 October 2023
  VATICAN - The Synod seen by Bishops from territories of First Evangelization Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - "We look forward to seeing the fruits of this Synod, of the themes we have talked about and discussed in these months of preparation. We have a desire to understan ...
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  4 October 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians in the land of the Taliban. With Francis of Assisi, men and women of peace in Beluchistan by Paolo Affatato Quetta ( Fides News Agency) - The evangelical spirit of peace and meekness of St. Francis of Assisi lives on in Beluchistan, a borderland province of Pakistan with frontiers on Afghanistan and Iran. ...
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  3 October 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - In Sumatra "the Spirit blows where it wants, nourishes communion, dialogue with Muslims, charity" Padang (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a need among the faithful in Sumatra to "cultivate community and solidarity, to feel community" and the consultations before the synod were "a fruitful opportunity for this". Given the ...
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  3 October 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Ethnic conflicts, hunger and drought: despite numerous challenges, missionaries do not give up Robe (Agenzia Fides) - "The month of September is special in Ethiopia because the Ethiopian New Year begins, which this year is 2015, and we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Cross, which is also a national holiday. The st ...
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  3 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Detained priest accused of belonging to a separatist group released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Anambra State Police Command (southern Nigeria) has released Father Samuel Aniebonem and seven other people arrested on September 27 on charges of belonging to the Movement for the Actualizati ...
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  2 October 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - First Regional Gathering of foreign priests: "not simple stopgaps to compensate for the lack of Italian priests" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Monday, October 2, the First Regional Gathering of foreign priests who carry out pastoral service in the dioceses of Lazio took place. The meeting, which is part of the missionary month of ...
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  2 October 2023
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - On mission in remote villages or with a commitment to education: Jesuit service for the growth of the nation Dili (Agenzia Fides) - He is the grandson of Josè Abad Santos, an intrepid commander, celebrated as a Filipino hero of World War II, who gave his life for the nation and was executed in 1942 by the Japanese invaders; bu ...