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• 24 September 2024
  AMERICA/PERU - Bilingual education for indigenous peoples: lack of teachers and adequate infrastructure Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - "We need authorities to defend the rights of girls, boys and young people of indigenous peoples, because they cannot continue to be excluded," says Mariluz Canaquiri, a member of the indigenous ...
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  24 September 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The memory of the Jesuit Martino Martini still opens up paths of encounter and dialogue by Marta Zhao and Laura Gomez Ruiz Hangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - China, the city of Hangzhou and the Chinese Catholic community have never forgotten Father Martino Martini. The great Jesuit missionary, appreciated by th ...
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  23 September 2024
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - Bishop Martinelli closes the Jubilee of the Martyrs of Arabia: they are our roots Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee in honor of Saint Aretha and his Companions, Martyrs of Arabia, was also a precious opportunity to rediscover the long history of Christianity in Arabia, a history "rooted in the a ...
• 23 September 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of bishop of Isiro-Niangara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Dieudonné Madrapile Tanzi as bishop of Isiro-Niangara, Democratic Republic of the Congo, transferring him from the pastoral care of the diocese of Isan ...
• 23 September 2024
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - President Dissanayake: the new face of the nation Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Anura Kumara Dissanayake is the new president of Sri Lanka, the Electoral Commission announced yesterday after the election on Saturday, September 21. A member of parliament with a left-wing pol ...
• 23 September 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The commitment of religious denominations for peace in South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - An interreligious meeting for peace held on September 21 in Bukavu, capital of South Kivu, one of the three eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been plagued for dec ...
• 21 September 2024
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Appointment of special envoy for the celebration of the Sixth American Missionary Congress (CAM6) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed His Eminence Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, archbishop emeritus of Caracas, as his special envoy to the celebration of the Sixth American Missionary ...
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  21 September 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - “WYO4children”: a musical project that heals wounds and opens people up Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - The orphans of the home run by the Missionary sisters of Charity in the diocese of Phu Cuong, in southern Vietnam, have learned that “music heals the wounds of the heart”, said Fr. ...
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  20 September 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï condemns attack on the Lebanese people Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "Sadness" for the bloody attack that hit "almost three thousand Lebanese citizens" by turning their pagers and walkie-talkies into explosive devices, and his firm condemnation of the Israeli atta ...
• 20 September 2024
  AFRICA/MALI - Terrorist attacks in Bamako have secular and religious backgrounds Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamist attacks carried out on September 17 in the Malian capital Bamako (see Fides, 18/9/2024) have various backgrounds, as local observers suspect. The attacks, which were claimed by the I ...
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  20 September 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missio Italia: Inauguration of the Missionary Education Center Verona (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, Saturday 21 September, the new headquarters of the Missionary Education Center “Centro Unitario per la Formazione Missionaria” (CUM) will be inaugurated in Verona. The Missio Italia ...
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  20 September 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Violence and social disintegration: young people determined to stay and preserve the presence of coexistence in Bossemptélé Bossemptélé (Agenzia Fides) - The Central African Republic (CAR) is still suffering the consequences of the civil war that began in 2013, which has caused deep social disintegration. According to UN reports, violence c ...
• 20 September 2024
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Elections in the midst of an economic and political crisis: the people demand change Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the popular protests that led to the dismissal of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in the midst of a serious economic crisis, Sri Lanka is preparing to elect a new president. ...
• 20 September 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy on WhatsApp Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Shagufta Kiran, a 40-year-old Pakistani Christian, was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to death under Article 295-C of the Penal Code for defaming the Prophet Muhammad through a messag ...
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  19 September 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Danger for Chinese Catholics: Bishops warn again about sects by Marta Zhao Ningbo (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholics must stay away from sects and their teachings, categorically refusing to attend their meetings. The baptized must persevere in the faith and adhere to the truths reve ...