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  8 October 2020
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - World Mission Sunday 2020: In times of the pandemic, announce Jesus in the “suburbs” San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - The National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Puerto Rico, Mgr. Daniel Fernández, Bishop of Arecibo, invites us to the celebration of World Mission Sunday (DOMUND) and cites an ...
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  8 October 2020
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - "Nobody saves themselves alone": national unity, secret in the fight against the coronavirus Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The small Asian state of East Timor is the country in the world that can boast an almost incredible toll (28 cases of coronavirus, and no deaths), "and the secret to containing the virus was the ab ...
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  8 October 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Ten years after the presentation of the UN Mapping Report, victims are still waiting for justice Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Ten years have passed since the United Nations' “Mapping” report was presented (see Fides, 7/5/2011), in which the human rights violations committed between March 1993 and June 2003 in the ...
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  8 October 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - 25 people die in attack on humanitarian convoy: UNHCR is "shocked" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - On the night of October 4 and 5, at least 25 people were killed in an attack on a humanitarian convoy in Burkina Faso. "25 people - all men - died and another was seriously injured after a ...
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  8 October 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops welcome negotiations with Israel over sea borders Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The slowness of investigations into the August 4th explosion in the port of Beirut is a strong demonstration of the failure of the Lebanese State and the inability of national institutions to de ...
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  8 October 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Paths for a "missionary" reform of the Church Brescia (Agenzia Fides) - Next Saturday, October 10th, there will be a conference entitled "Missione Oggi" (English: Mission Today) in Brescia, organized on the initiative of the Xavier Missionaries magazine, on the refo ...
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  7 October 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishop of Matagalpa: "The future of our country is at stake" Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - After Mgr. Mata had already commented on the latest bills (see Fides, 1/10/2020), Mgr. Rolando Álvarez, Bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa, also spoke during a press conference last Sunday: ...
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  7 October 2020
  AFRICA/ESWATINI - World Mission Sunday 2020: Creative ways of Evangelization in times of pandemic Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - When Pope Francis invited the Church a year ago to celebrate an Extraordinary Missionary Month, we welcomed this invitation with joy: in the Kingdom of Eswatini we decided to extend it to the wh ...
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  7 October 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Laws must be at the service of the dignity of every human being Nuevo Casas Grandes (Agenzia Fides) - "In view of the current situation in our country, we see the serious risk that another initiative will further divide and polarize society and destroy the most important institution ...
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  7 October 2020
  ASIA - Geopolitical Atlas documents the effects of the pandemic: the virus does not stop wars Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "On January 23, 2020, the Chinese city of Wuhan was shut down. Then it was the turn of Huanggang and then of Ezhou. According to WHO, the isolation of a city as large as Wuhan is unprecedented in p ...
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  7 October 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistani Christian acquitted after seven years: Justice is now being sought for the violence committed at Joseph Colony Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Pakistani Christian Sawan Masih, who was falsely accused of blasphemy in 2013, was acquitted yesterday, 6 October 2020, by the Lahore Court of Appeal. After seven years in prison and a first-degr ...
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  7 October 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - 28 years after the peace accords, several areas of Mozambique are living in the anxiety of war Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-eight years after the historic signing of the peace accords that put an end to the civil war in Mozambique, fear of war has flared up again in various areas of the Country. This was stated ...
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  7 October 2020
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem thanks the Order of the Holy Sepulcher for its support. Debts for the University of Madaba have been fully repaid Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - With heartfelt thanks for "the concrete and tangible sign of divine providence" for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Apostolic Administrator, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, addres ...
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  7 October 2020
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The UN: 60% of the Central African population needs humanitarian protection Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, there are 2.8 million Central Africans in need of humanitarian assistance and protection – nearly 60% of the Country’s population... Increasing violations by armed groups are creating ...
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  6 October 2020
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - World Mission Month opens in Meyrin opened: "Everyone can be part of the chain of communication of the Gospel" Friborg (Agenzia Fides) - World Mission Month was inaugurated in Switzerland on Sunday 4th October in the parish of The Visitation in Meyrin. Under the motto "Here I am, send me!" the Catholics of Switzerland are invited ...