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• 17 October 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops on the death of businessman Ratan Tata: "A beacon of compassion" esteemed by the Catholics Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "Ratan Tata was an icon among entrepreneurs, a visionary leader and a philanthropist whose indelible contribution to society will be remembered for generations," said the Indian Bishops' Confe ...
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  17 October 2024
  VATICAN - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS 2024 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Sunday, which this year celebrates its 98th anniversary on Sunday, October 20, 2024, Fides News Agency offers some statistics chosen to give a pano ...
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  16 October 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Joint appeal by religious leaders: “God give our people hope to withstand this catastrophe” Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanese homeland is wounded, "and the wound infects each of us". With these words, Maronite Patriarch Béchara Boutros Raï began his speech at the opening of the extraordinary Summit of religio ...
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  16 October 2024
  VATICAN - Films and photos of the missions: a treasure to be preserved and rediscovered by Samuele Massimi and Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Recovering and enhancing the vast multimedia heritage collected in the archives of the main religious organizations involved in the missions with th ...
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  16 October 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: "The life given to us by the Holy Spirit is eternal life!" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we can value the most important prerogative for us that is proclaimed in the article of the Creed, namely that the Holy Spirit is “life-giving”, the “giver of life”, said Pop ...
• 16 October 2024
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Interreligious prayer for the health of the President Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The mystery surrounding the health of Cameroonian President Paul Biya, who has not appeared in public since the beginning of September, is growing. The Cameroonian Head of State did not attend ...
• 16 October 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Almost 100 dead in tanker explosion Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - More than 90 people have died in the explosion of a tanker in Nigeria. The tragedy occurred around midnight on October 15 in the town of Majia, in Jigawa state, in north-central Nigeria. In additi ...
• 16 October 2024
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Easter attacks: new investigations are "a good sign of justice" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The fact that the government under the newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has confirmed its will to conduct a thorough investigation into the Easter 2019 attacks is certainly a go ...
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  16 October 2024
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A missionary from Cairo: "The days in the mission pass quickly" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "I have started learning Arabic and two days a week, early in the morning, we go from our neighborhood to the Comboni school with Patrick and Florindo," says Anselmo Fabiano, an Italian missionary ...
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  15 October 2024
  Cardinal Marengo: mission is a mystery by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo IMC Rome (Agenzia Fides) - We are pleased to publish the Prolusion made today by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, Consolata missionary and Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, on the occasion of the ...
• 15 October 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Israeli strike on Christian-majority village in Northern Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - At least 23 people were killed yesterday, October 14, in a bomb attack on a building in the predominantly Christian village of Aitou, near Zgharta, in the far north of Lebanon, which has so far b ...
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  14 October 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - International Conference: Marco Polo and the Franciscans in the East Tolentino (Agenzia Fides) - "In the footsteps of Tommaso da Tolentino and Father Matteo Ricci" is the title of the opening session of the international conference "Travel Notes: Marco Polo and the Franciscans in the East ...
• 14 October 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Fighting continues in Khartoum: 23 civilians killed in attack on a market Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Fighting continues in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, where the Sudanese armed forces are trying to expel the militiamen of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from their positions. Civilians are par ...
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  14 October 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "Korea Mission Society" celebrates its 50th anniversary: "A community on the move" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The spirit is one of going out, of communicating the Gospel "ad gentes". Fifty years after its foundation, the "Korea Mission Society" (KMS) continues to practice this missionary spirit and reaffi ...
• 14 October 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - "Environmental Prayer Walk": peaceful rally against illegal gold mining Accra (Agenzia Fides) - On October 11, the Archdiocese of Accra invited people to the "Environmental Prayer Walk", which took place peacefully and without incidents, with the participation of thousands of people. The ral ...