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  12 October 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - A new Franciscan mission in northeast India Diphu (Agenzia Fides) - Fraternity, hospitality, listening and helping the poorest: these are the characteristics which, according to the charism of Saint Francis of Assisi, will animate the new mission begun by the Fran ...
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  12 October 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Faith and religion must not be exploited for electoral purposes Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "We regret that in the current election campaign, faith and religion are increasingly being used as a means of winning votes in the second round," the President of the Brazilian Bishops' Confer ...
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  12 October 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Horn of Africa: Cooperation between East African countries required Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Hope for the future of the Horn of Africa could come from the consolidation of cooperation between the seven East African States, if they manage to create a network to promote peace together ...
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  12 October 2022
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Peaceful coexistence: "We strive for dialogue in everyday life" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We are working to promote the spirit of dialogue", says to Agenzia Fides Msgr. Paul Abel Mamba, bishop of Tambacounda and vice-president of the Episcopal Conference of Senegal, Mauritania, Cape- G ...
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  11 October 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - 60 years of independence: bishops look back on developments over the past ten years Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "In the last ten years our country has developed positively in many ways", say the Bishops of Uganda in their Message for the 60th anniversary of Independence. Referring to their letter, written ...
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  11 October 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Peace talks postponed to a date to be defined to stop the war in Tigray Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Hopes of further peace talks launched by the African Union (AU) in South Africa to find a solution to the conflict in the Tigray region (see Fides 6/10/2022), faded on the same weekend of Oc ...
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  11 October 2022
  ASIA - The jubilee assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences: "And they took another path" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Even the rain - not uncommon in the rainy season, which in Thailand lasts from June to October - does not alter the good climate of meetings that will characterize the General Assembly of the Fe ...
• 11 October 2022
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Appointment of the Rector of the interdiocesan seminary in the archdiocese of Gwangju Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 22, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Rev. Petrus Kim Jung-Yong, of the archdiocesan clergy of Gwangju as Rector of the interdiocesan Seminary located in the Archdioces ...
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  11 October 2022
  VATICAN - Seminaries: Dicastery for Evangelization organizes refresher course for professors in Rome Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After a 2-year break due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the refresher course that the Dicastery for Evangelization has been organizing since the 2012-2013 academic year for the Professors of maj ...
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  11 October 2022
  VATICAN - The expectations of the missionary world at the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "One of the main fruits that everyone expects from the Council is a more massive participation of the entire Catholic world in the work of the missions. Until now, the shortage of missionar ...
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  10 October 2022
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - New cycle of violence? after the assault on a military base with the death of 7 soldiers Djibouti (Agenzia Fides) - At least 7 soldiers lost their lives in an attack on the Garabtisan base, in the north of Djibouti, in the early hours of Friday, October 7. In a statement, the Ministry of Defense blamed the " ...
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  10 October 2022
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Displaced people, floods, food emergency: from rural to urban areas Karthum (Agenzia Fides) –– A quarter of the population of Sudan is facing a situation of acute hunger. It is estimated that 12 million people suffer from this emergency, and the figure could reach 18 million by the e ...
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  10 October 2022
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Committed to proclaiming and living the value of honesty in the family, in education and in society Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Corruption, which is very evident in Dominican society, has a lot to do "with the lack of education in children, youth and adults that gives priority to the value of honesty", therefore it ...
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  10 October 2022
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Ignatian spiritual exercises in Samarkand, to guard the "bud" of faith Samarkand (Agenzia Fides) – To spend a few days in silence, according to the charism of St. Ignatius of Loyola, and propose the practice of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises as an opportunity to be closer to God and dis ...
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  10 October 2022
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "It is time to take a step forward”: the Forum for Peace calls for a process of dialogue and reconciliation Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - As tensions rise on the Korean peninsula, and yesterday, October 9, North Korea launched two new short-range ballistic missiles towards the East Sea, cultural and political initiatives continue to ...