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  17 October 2020
  EUROPE/ENGLAND - Towards Mission Sunday: from climate crisis to conflicts in the world, it is more important than ever to be a light in the darkness London (Agenzia Fides) - On World Mission Day 2020 - the one time in the whole year when the global Church comes together in celebration and support of mission - the Pontifical Mission Societies of England and Wales (Mis ...
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  17 October 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Challenges to the evangelizing mission in Africa, at the time of Covid-19 Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - The fundamental dynamic of the mission, which is to announce the Good News of salvation: starting from this awareness, the Catholic communities in Africa will have to rethink some great perspectiv ...
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  17 October 2020
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right: the satisfaction of the Church San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador unanimously approved, with 78 votes in favor and no votes against, the reform of the Constitution of the Republic to recognize water as a public good ...
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  17 October 2020
  VATICAN - Video message from Cardinal Tagle: "where the most vulnerable and needy are, there are also the missionaries" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In a video message for World Mission Sunday, released by the Pontifical Mission Societies of the United States of America, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for th ...
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  16 October 2020
  VATICAN - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS 2020 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, which this year celebrates its 94th anniversary on Sunday, October 18, 2020, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panora ...
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  16 October 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A young priest ordained five months ago found dead Caratinga (Agenzia Fides) - "The Diocese of Caratinga informs with great regret the death of Fr. Adriano da Silva Barros, parish vicar of São Simão parish, in Simonésia, MG. Fr. Adriano had disappeared in the early af ...
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  16 October 2020
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Catholic schools: tools for evangelization and human development, in partnership with the government Kuching (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic educational institutes in Malaysia are authentic and precious means of evangelization, human development and personal growth: this is what was stated by Archbishop Simon Peter Poh Hoon ...
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  16 October 2020
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The National Director of the PMS: "It is important to make the link between charity and evangelization known" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "There is great joy and enthusiasm in all diocesan Missions Directions for missionary October. This is a great opportunity to invite all the baptized to become aware of their vocation and th ...
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  16 October 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Churches present their proposal concerning the bill on the family to the Egyptian government Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives in charge of the Churches and ecclesial communities present in Egypt have presented to the Egyptian political authorities a unitary proposal concerning the bill on personal sta ...
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  16 October 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Archbishop Kouadio launches an appeal for evangelization, on the eve of Mission Sunday Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church exists to evangelize and this mission is of a Divine nature; By virtue of this precept, the whole Church in all its components, priests, men and women religious and lay faithful, are ...
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  16 October 2020
  VATICAN - World Mission Day: mission challenges every baptized person, called to give a concrete answer Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of World Mission Day "is a source of joy for the universal Church, even if within the local Churches it will be celebrated in a different way this year, due to the particula ...
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  15 October 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - A long list of deaths and violence: proliferation of weapons, impunity and corruption among the causes Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Violence does not stop in Haiti, which in recent weeks has been causing a wave of deaths. On Monday, October 12, Eric Elias Diogène, Senator Youri Latortue’s bodyguard, was shot dead i ...
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  15 October 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - In the wake of the Extraordinary Missionary Month: "Baptized and Sent" to become "Weavers of Fraternity" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "This year's missionary October follows in the wake of the Extraordinary Missionary Month that we celebrated in 2019. The theme 'Baptized and Sent', which aimed to rediscover the universality of th ...
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  15 October 2020
  AFRICA/MALI - Towards Mission Sunday: "For a peaceful Mali, here I am, send me Lord" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We have drawn from the theme of World Mission Day a theme adapted to the current situation in Mali and which will remain valid not only for the missionary month of October 2020 but also for all ...
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  15 October 2020
  ASIA/THAILAND - Demonstration of "young people" for democracy and the limitation of the powers of the Crown Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The renewal of the state of emergency in Bangkok, which bans public meetings of more than 5 people and the publication of "illegal messages" on social media, is the government's response to the ...