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  28 September 2020
  AFRICA/DRC - Episcopal ordination of Bishop Félicien Ntambue, Bishop of Kabinda Kabinda (Agenzia Fides) - "The Episcopate is in fact the name of a service and not of an honor, because it is up to the Bishop to serve and not dominate, according to the command of the Master:" let the greatest among yo ...
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  28 September 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Migrants: a reality of suffering for many Venezuelans Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 106th World Day of Migrants and Refugees celebrated yesterday, Sunday 27 September, Red Clamor published a message addressed to "the holy people of God who are pilgrims in ...
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  28 September 2020
  AFRICA/ESWATINI - The solidarity of Catholic women towards the refugees welcomed in the camp of Malindza Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - Your Excellency, Most Reverend Jose Ponce de Leon, Bishop of Manzini; Fr. Mabuza under whose jurisdiction this refugee camp falls, we thank you for guiding us in this difficult time in history, ...
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  26 September 2020
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Towards Mission Sunday - The Bishop of Bossangoa: "Keep the lamp of hope burning" Bossangoa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church is fully inserted in the general context of the socio-political life in the Central African Republic. To date, it suffers from prevailing insecurity and has paid a heavy p ...
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  26 September 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church in prayer for Migrant Day: "The pandemic must not distract us from the suffering of those who flee" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The understandable focus on the COVID-19 pandemic must not distract people from another ongoing crisis. Migration is a major challenge for much of today’s world and a priority for the Catholic ...
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  26 September 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Migrant Day: "To welcome today as if we were to welcome Christ as a refugee" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In the flight to Egypt, Jesus experienced being a refugee. In the eyes of Mary and Joseph we see the same worried and fearful gazes of today's refugees. In Christ, however, we see the same conditi ...
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  26 September 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Being a missionary in Kibera, one of the poorest suburbs in the world; the story of the National Director of the PMS to Fides Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Priests in one of the poorest suburbs in the world: the slum in Kibera in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where Fr. Bonaventure Luchidio, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Ke ...
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  26 September 2020
  AMERICA - The Church is close to migrants with prayer and with projects of reception and support San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) - "On 27 September we celebrate the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. The Pope is sensitive to the migratory reality which makes people more vulnerable to human trafficking, hunger, violence a ...
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  26 September 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christians and Muslims deepen their faith: the initiative of the "Silsilah" movement Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - "We try not only to protect ourselves and to counter the spread of the virus, but also to make our experience and our service meaningful for the common good. This is the effort that the moveme ...
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  25 September 2020
  ASIA/THAILAND - Parliament postpones the vote for change: the protest of young people does not stop Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Thailand is enveloped in social and political tensions that involve, in a special way, the world of young people and that could determine a new state structure and therefore the future of the co ...
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  25 September 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops to young people: "Serve the Gospel with courage, as young missionaries" Multan (Agenzia Fides): "Pakistan is a Country that has more than 60 percent of young people of its total population, and we Catholic Bishops are working to support young Christians in Pakistan to be protagonists of the ...
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  25 September 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - US funds to the charitable association for Christian refugees founded by Archbishop Warda Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The fund allocated by US foreign policy to a charitable organization promoted by the Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil, Bashar Warda, to assist Christian refugees displaced since 2014 in the capital ar ...
• 25 September 2020
  AFRICA/CHAD - Resignation of the Bishop of Pala Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Pala, Chad, presented by Bishop Jean-Claude Bouchard, O.M.I. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 25/9/2020) ...
• 25 September 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of bishop of Sivagangai Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Sivagangai, India, presented by Bishop Jebamalai Susaimanickam. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 25/9/2020) ...
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  25 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Corruption is equal to betrayal and socio-economic terrorism" says the President of "Justice and Peace" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The coronavirus seems to have reinforced the greed that has conquered our Country in the last ten years", says His Exc. Mgr. Victor Hlolo Phalana, Bishop of Klerksdorp, and President of th ...