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  3 November 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Missing priest is safe and sound Teotihuacan (Agenzia Fides) - Without providing details in this regard, Fr. Francisco Núñez Martinez’s sister announced that the priest has been found alive, five days after his disappearance in the State of Mexico ( ...
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  3 November 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - New declaration by the Apostolic Vicar of Aysen on the need to include the right to water in the text of the new Constitution Aysén (Agenzia Fides) - "Water is the origin of all life. Without water there is no life", said the Apostolic Vicar of Aysén, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Infanti de la Mora. "Water is an essential element for life, not only for ...
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  3 November 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Archbishop of Santa Cruz commemorates victims of the Covid-19 pandemic on All Souls Day Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "On this day when we remember all the believers who have died, pain and memories, questions and doubts mingle in our hearts, especially in these tragic times of the global corona epidemic tha ...
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  3 November 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Presidential election: Opposition wants to challenge outgoing president's victory Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The Independent Electoral Commission of Ivory Coast today announced the victory of outgoing President, Alassane Ouattara with 94% of the votes in the October 31 elections and a turnout of 53.9% ...
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  3 November 2020
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - A nun dies due to her serious injuries after an attack on her parish Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Matilda Mulengachonzi, one of the two sisters of the Congregation of the Little Servants of Mary Immaculate (LSMI), died of injuries inflicted two months ago in an armed attack on the pari ...
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  3 November 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Police have freed the 13-year-old Catholic Arzoo after a forced marriage Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are grateful to God that, on orders from the Provincial Supreme Court, the Sindh Police rescued 13-year-old Catholic Arzoo Raja, who was kidnapped on October 13th, 2020. It is a great result ...
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  3 November 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Ten years after the attack on the Syrian Catholic Church of St. Mary in Baghdad: "Our dead are torches that illuminate our path" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "Our martyrs are the torches of faith that illuminate the path of our life and kindle the fire of charity towards all", said Ignace Yussif III Younan, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrian Catholic ...
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  31 October 2020
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - One year after their establishment, the children of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood report rapid growth Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - A little more than a year after its establishment in Romania, the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood (POSI) continues to grow: on 3 October a group of children from the diocese of Târ ...
• 31 October 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Saint Francis Xavier Regional Philosophical Seminary in Agra Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 February 2020, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Joseph Francis D'Souza, of the diocesan clergy of Allahabad ...
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  31 October 2020
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Mission Stories: Spanish Missionaries around the World Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - A 102-year-old priest serving as a missionary in Taiwan. A nun who discovered an illness while working as a doctor in Benin and thus became known worldwide. A Bishop who acts as a human shield ag ...
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  31 October 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Catholic community asks the authorities to search for a missing missionary Tecámac (Agenzia Fides) - As part of a campaign with the hashtag #TodosSomosPadrePaco, the Catholics in Tecámac express their solidarity with Priest Francisco Núñez Martínez from Santa María Ajoloapan parish in Tec ...
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  31 October 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop of Lagos warns of provocations on social media Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "For days we have witnessed a series of provocations online and through social networks of people who want to stir up the fire of ethnic and religious divisions to cause confusion and chaos. There ...
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  31 October 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Human rights violations: civil and church organizations call for international investigation Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Our ultimate goal is that the international community conduct an independent and impartial investigation into human rights violations in the Philippines. But for now this is not the case and thi ...
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  31 October 2020
  AFRICA/GHANA - The National Director of the PMS: "We are called to show the love of God through our charitable service" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "The world was overwhelmed by the global Covid-19 pandemic, which unexpectedly broke out for all of us. The lack of knowledge and the lack of control have forced the whole country and the Church i ...
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  31 October 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: Islamist atrocities require more collaboration between Christians and Muslims Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the inhuman ferocity of those who behead innocent people under the insulting invocation of the name of God, it is urgently necessary to avoid the climate of "conflict between religion ...