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  22 October 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops complain of a "standstill" in the Country and death threats against confreres in the episcopate Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply saddened that our politicians are showing revolting indifference while the country is on the verge of bankruptcy", said the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo in a messa ...
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  22 October 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic girl abducted and converted to Islam: the kidnapper's false statements Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Arzoo Raja, the young Catholic girl kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and forced into an Islamic wedding by a 44-year-old Muslim (see Fides, 21/10/2020), is 13 years old and not 18, as fals ...
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  21 October 2020
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Floods: Catholic communities and humanitarian aid organizations help flood victims Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic communities in Cambodia and humanitarian organizations have stepped up their efforts to help those affected by heavy rains and floods across the country. With the help of the Apostol ...
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  21 October 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Call for firm government action after 13-year-old Catholic girl is kidnapped and converted to Islam Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Arzoo Raja, a 13-year-old Catholic from Karachi, was kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and then forced to marry a 44-year-old Muslim man, named Ali Azhar, who kidnapped her on the morning o ...
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  21 October 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - No pilgrimages for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe: it will be celebrated in communities and families Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - There will be no liturgical celebration in the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe on 11 and 12 December of this year, and not even the traditional artistic events in front of the Basilica. This ...
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  21 October 2020
  VATICAN - Testimony of the Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for Missionary Childhood on the involvement of children and young people in proclaiming Christ during the missionary month Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Children and young people are protagonists of the missionary month and of missionary animation in the whole world. They are the young missionary disciples who evangelize, through prayer an ...
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  21 October 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Land, housing, work and encyclical "Fratelli Tutti" in times of pandemic: virtual meeting of popular movements Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - A little more than six months ago, Pope Francis wrote a letter to the popular movements around the world at a time "of so much anguish and difficulties" following the impact of the Covid-19 ...
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  21 October 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than one hundred young people confirmed in a parish of Kinshasa sent as "missionaries in the suburbs" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "What God expects from each of us is a true and sincere willingness to go on a mission. Everyone must say to God today: here I am Lord, send me. In addition to our availability, it is also our ...
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  21 October 2020
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - #PeacefulHarvest: World Council of Churches supports olive harvest in Palestine Nablus (Agenzia Fides) - The ecumenical accompaniment program of the World Council of Churches (WCC) launches a public campaign to ensure that Palestinian families can live the olive harvest season without problems, and ...
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  21 October 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Life has become dangerously brutish and short in Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Ending the SARS will not solve the enormous problems of Nigeria, because it is futile treating symptoms of a disease when the root cause is known", the Bishops in Nigeria say in their statement o ...
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  20 October 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - Churches destroyed: the Bishops urge us to distance ourselves from irrational violence Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The fire that led to the total destruction of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, a few meters from Piazza Italia, in the center of Santiago de Chile, marked the day of Sunday 18 October, ...
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  20 October 2020
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - President of the Bishops' Conference rejects amendment of the abortion law and calls for the right to conscientious objection: "Abortion is unacceptable" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Abortion is unacceptable. The Church will always protect human life, from conception to natural death. Therefore, we hope the Korean government will allow a conscientious objection to the abortio ...
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  20 October 2020
  ASIA/THAILAND - Youth protests continue Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Sixth consecutive day of protests in Bangkok and other cities in Thailand since October 15. The protests continued every afternoon after police arrested those responsible for the protest and eva ...
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  20 October 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - National youth days are to take place online in times of Coronavirus Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - As a result of the Covid 19 pandemic, the National Youth Day (DNJ) 2020 will be celebrated differently in Brazilian dioceses this year. Although a common date is set for October 25th, each dioc ...
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  20 October 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - About 300 detainees of the prison in Kangbayi on the run: "The people are afraid" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300 detainees escaped today, when a group of armed men attacked Kangbayi Central Prison in Beni, north of Kivu, in eastern DRC at 4 a.m. As a representative of the Center for Studies ...