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  9 September 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Mar Awa Royel is the 122nd Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Mar Awa Royel, currently Bishop of the Assyrian diocese of California (USA) and Secretary of the Holy Synod is the 122nd Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. He was elected on Wednesday, ...
• 9 September 2021
  AFRICA/GUINEA - ECOWAS suspends Guinea; Catholic leaders had long warned about the crisis that resulted in the coup Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (CEDEAO/ECOWAS) suspended Guinea from their regional organization after the military coup on Sunday, September 5 (see Fides, 6/9/202 ...
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  8 September 2021
  EUROPE/POLAND - Let us pray with Blessed Father Paolo Manna Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the upcoming 150th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Father Paolo Manna, PIME missionary, born in Avellino on January 16, 1872, founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PM ...
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  8 September 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Criminal gangs kill a priest in Cap Haitien Cap Haitien (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, September 6, in Cap Haitien, in the north of the country, Father André Sylvestre, a 70-year-old priest, was attacked while leaving a bank. Wounded by a group of criminals, he die ...
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  8 September 2021
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Catholics and Buddhists celebrate the "Time of Creation" together Battambang (Agenzia Fides) - In Cambodia the "Time of Creation" is a fruitful opportunity to develop dialogue, friendship and deep interreligious relations between Christians and Buddhists. As Fides learned, from Septemb ...
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  8 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Economy, land of mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York, the Comboni missionary and journalist Father Giulio Albanese, MCCJ will address the issue of the civil economy in the ...
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  8 September 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Mary Mother of all, regardless of ethnicity or nationality: 25th International Mariological Marian Congress Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Mary between theologies and cultures today" is the theme of the International Mariological Marian Congress, which will take place online, starting from today September 8th to 11th, 2021. Now in i ...
• 8 September 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Endemic insecurity in the 3 eastern provinces is creating a humanitarian drama Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Endemic insecurity in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (North and South Kivu and Ituri) has serious humanitarian consequences. In the province of Ituri alone, according ...
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  8 September 2021
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - Russian Metropolitan Hilarion: Orthodox and Catholics share the same faith in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics and Orthodox cannot ordinarily share the sacrament of the Eucharist, because they do not live in full ecclesial communion. But certainly, both Catholics and Orthodox recognize that "i ...
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  8 September 2021
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Cardinal Ranjith: "The government has a duty to promote truth and justice on the Easter massacres, with a transparent investigation" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "We reiterate the request for a transparent investigation, which ascertains instigators and responsibility for the Easter attacks. The Church and the entire nation, shocked by terrorism, have th ...
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  7 September 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - For Cardinal Rosa Chávez: "Democracy is in intensive care" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "Democracy in El Salvador is in intensive care": this is the expression used by Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, Auxiliary of San Salvador, to make a comparison with a deadly disease that le ...
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  7 September 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - On the day dedicated to the Armed Forces, the Church pays homage to Christian war heroes Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "We must encourage our fellow citizens to remain faithful to our Homeland as were our Christian heroes of the Armed Forces in Pakistan, who bravely fought and gave their lives for our beloved co ...
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  7 September 2021
  AFRICA/eSWATINI - Calm situation, but without indications on how the problems raised by the unrest will be addressed Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in the country remains 'calm' with sporadic episodes of violence. Some school buildings were set on fire. The army was deployed on June 29 and has not been called back to the barr ...
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  7 September 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Churches and monasteries refuse funding from the military junta; the resistance proclaims the "defensive war" Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The military junta of Myanmar has made a cash donation to Christian Pastors and Buddhist leaders in all the cities of the Chin State through the commanders of the local army. The military summoned ...
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  7 September 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The imprisonment of Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez: testimony of the evangelizing mission Cartagena (Agenzia Fides) - "Like Jesus, Sister Gloria was dedicating her life to fighting disease, injustice and marginalization. Her missionary testimony, in contexts such as Mali, caused her misunderstandings up to he ...