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  25 October 2021
  VATICAN - "The centrality of the Kingdom of God" is the leitmotif of the new bulletin of POSI Bulletin Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The centrality of the Kingdom of God" is the title and theme of the October 2021 Bulletin of the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI) to be dist ...
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  25 October 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch after riots in Tayyouneh: "It is the duty of the State to protect its people" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The State has the task of "protecting its people". And if this does not happen, those who "defend their dignity and the security of their surroundings" should not be treated as a "scapegoat", sai ...
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  25 October 2021
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The military takes power with a coup, people take to the streets Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "While we are speaking we hear gunshots. As we feared, the army began firing on demonstrators who, since the early hours of the morning, have poured into the streets to demand an immediate end ...
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  23 October 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sandra Sabattini, a young woman who loved the poor for the love of God, will be beatified on World Mission Sunday Rimini (Agenzia Fides) – Sunday, October 24, World Mission Sunday, a girl, Sandra Sabattini, will be beatified in Rimini. The rite, which had been scheduled months ago, was postponed due to restrictions resulting from ...
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  23 October 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Scalabrinian: Missionary Day brings us back to our communities around the world and to the new mission of Cabo Delgado Pemba (Agenzia Fides) - 125 years have passed since the foundation of the Congregation of the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters. The Scalabrinian Year will begin next November 9, on the 25th anniversary of the beatificatio ...
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  23 October 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Giving one's life so as not to abandon the elderly: the missionary witness of the religious who died of Covid Oruro (Agenzia Fides) - Three nuns of the Congregation of the Hermanitas de los Ancianos Desamparados (Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly, HAD), died in Bolivia at the end of September due to Covid-19, infected whil ...
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  23 October 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Towards Mission Sunday: promoting the mission of the Church through the witness of young people Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "If we want to tell what we have seen and heard, who better than young people to help us do it? Many of them have had the good fortune to share some time with the missionaries and want to share w ...
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  23 October 2021
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Fire at the headquarters of the Catholic Secretariat of the Bishops' Conference: "I ask all of you to pray for us", says the National Director of the country's Pontifical Societies Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday, October 19, around 10.30 in the morning, a fire broke out in the National Catholic Secretariat of the Bishops' Conference of Liberia (CABICOL). This is how the General Secretary, ...
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  23 October 2021
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Social crisis, a coup is feared: for the Bishop of El Obeid, the "future is uncertain" El Obeid (Agenzia Fides) - "Life in Sudan is very hard at the moment, we miraculously survive. Everything is very expensive, transport, food and the people have no bread. This situation is intolerable for the population ...
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  22 October 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The military occupies a Baptist church: new episodes of attacks on Christians Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The military in Myanmar devastated a Baptist church after attacking the village of Tlang Rua in the diocese of Hakha, in the Burmese state of Chin, in the northwestern area of Myanmar, and encampe ...
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  22 October 2021
  EUROPE/POLAND - Towards the Missionary Synod of children Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The entire Catholic world has begun the synodal journey responding to the invitation of the Holy Father Francis. Following the path of the universal Church, the Pontifical Society of the Holy Chi ...
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  22 October 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - "Everyone is called to mission" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "All the baptized are called to mission. To proclaim the Gospel and bear witness to the word of God. The missionary month is a special time to invite us to reflect on the call of the Lord: the them ...
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  22 October 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A mission at the service of young women Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It was the invitation of the Virgin Mary "Go, O my Handmaids", to push the Congregation of the Franciscan Handmaids of Mary, an Italian religious institute, born in Tuscany, to go to distan ...
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  22 October 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - “United in Christ”. Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako pays a visit to Mar Awa III, the new Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The condition of the indigenous Christian communities in the delicate historical phase crossed by Iraq and the future that awaits them in the lands of their millenary roots were at the center of t ...
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  22 October 2021
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Interventions against child malnutrition and for the care of pregnant women Muyanza (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the end of the project for nutritional and health support for women and children in Muyanza, in the Rulindo district, concluded in 2019, Omar Fiordalisio, cooperating representat ...