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  15 October 2020
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Mobilization of Catholic communities in favor of populations affected by floods in central Vietnam Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic Parishes and communities have mobilized to help people affected by the recent floods in central Vietnam, where due to heavy rains and floods, tens of thousands of residents have had to le ...
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  15 October 2020
  AFRICA/MALI - "Sister Cecilia is alive, but in need of care. Everything must be done to free her", says former French hostage who spent her captivity with her Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez, Colombian missionary kidnapped in Mali on February 7, 2017, is alive but needs care. This is what was reported by Sophie Petronin, released in the company of other ...
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  15 October 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - The reorganization of REPAM continues: Cardinal Barreto new President Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Pedro Barreto takes over the Presidency of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), succeeding Cardinal Claudio Hummes, in this important service. Cardinal Barreto, Archbishop of Hu ...
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  15 October 2020
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - Armenian Patriarch Karekin II calls for decisive intervention by the international community in Nagorno-Karabakh Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) - The Azerbaijani military operations in the Nagorno Karabakh region, "ignore the ceasefire agreement", and confirm the failure of the negotiations carried out so far. In the face of this scenario ...
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  15 October 2020
  AFRICA - Father Maccalli free: "I have no other offer than the offer of my life" Madignano (Agenzia Fides) - The desert of the kidnapping "was a time of great silence, of purification, of returning to the origins and the essential. An opportunity to review the film of my life. Every day, especially ...
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  14 October 2020
  VATICAN - PMS Fund for the Covid emergency: aid to pastoral operators and diocesan mass media in Africa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Although the Covid-19 pandemic does not stop, causing suffering and death on all continents, the Church continues its work of assistance and charity, especially in those areas of the world ...
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  14 October 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Towards Mission Day: "Responding generously to the call of the Lord" Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - "The theme of this year's World Mission Day: Here I am, send me, at first made me think that Pope Francis wanted to address young people in particular", writes to Agenzia Fides Anna Tomasi, of ...
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  14 October 2020
  AFRICA - The Superior of the SMA: "Fr. Maccalli, man of faith, forgiveness and fraternity" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After two years of silence and solitude, Father Gigi Maccalli needed to feel at home, to feel welcomed and listened to. "He talked for an hour, without ever getting tired", said to Agenzia Fides Fr ...
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  14 October 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Reflections of the Bishops of Amazonia on the Encyclical Fratelli tutti Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - "The text of the new Encyclical Fratelli tutti fits perfectly with the Encyclical Laudato Sì (2015), appealing to the whole world to take care of the Common Home. Now the Pope calls u ...
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  14 October 2020
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - From Korea on mission ad gentes: Korean priests sent to Asia and Latin America Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – With the Solemn "Mass of the missionary mandate", the Archdiocese of Seoul celebrated, in this month of October, traditionally dedicated to missionary work, the sending of six new Korean mission ...
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  14 October 2020
  VATICAN - Interview with the Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith on the eve of World Mission Day Vatican City - "The Pontifical Mission Societies are entirely dependent on God's Providence, through the free offerings of the faithful. We help the life of the local Churches of mission territories, dependent on the Con ...
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  14 October 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: Negotiations over sea borders do not represent "normalization" of bilateral relations with Israel Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The negotiations between Lebanese and Israeli delegates to determine the sea borders between Lebanon and Israel cannot necessarily be interpreted as the beginning of the normalization of relati ...
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  14 October 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - A Church program to tackle teenage pregnancies in one of the poorest areas of Kenya Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - There were 100 girls from the villages of Kipanga-ajeni, Burangi, Pokea Mwana and Masheheni, mobilized by teachers in the area, for the launch of the program to tackle teenage pregnancies in the ...
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  13 October 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Towards Mission Sunday - "The mission of the Church continues beyond the suffering of the pandemic" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "In this year marked by the suffering and the challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the missionary journey of the whole Church continues": this is the passage of Pope Francis' Message for Worl ...
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  13 October 2020
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops' appeal: a "frank, transparent and fruitful" dialogue to overcome social tensions San José (Agenzia Fides) - We want to reaffirm once again the appeal to the President for a frank, direct, transparent, multisectoral dialogue that leads to concrete results. It must be a fruitful dialogue for the benef ...