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  18 September 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Solidarity campaign "Together for Cabo Delgado" to assist over 250,000 displaced people in the diocese of Pemba Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Together for Cabo Delgado". This is the international solidarity campaign launched in July by the diocese of Pemba, in the province of Cabo Delgado, in the north of Mozambique, devastated by the ...
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  17 September 2020
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Sacred Heart of Jesus statue destroyed in St. Patrick Cathedral El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - A vandal destroyed a statue of Jesus at St. Patrick Cathedral in El Paso, Texas on Tuesday morning, September 15. According to the diocese, someone entered the sanctuary of St. Patrick’s Cathe ...
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  17 September 2020
  EUROPE/LITHUANIA - Towards Mission Sunday: "Mission before a territory is a way of life", says a Salesian missionary in Vilnius Vilnius (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Massimo Bianco, a Salesian of Don Bosco (SDB), has been a missionary in Lithuania for twenty years. He is 57 years old, lives and works in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, in a large sub ...
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  17 September 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Independence Day: the partnership between State and Church is the cornerstone for the foundation of the nation Boroko (Agenzia Fides) - "While we remember the freedom for which our founding fathers worked to bring our people and our nation where we are today, it is also important to recognize and respect our national Constitution ...
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  17 September 2020
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "To seek the common good" urges the President of the Episcopal Conference in the face of growing tensions Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "For some time our Country no longer lives in the perspective of its progress, but in growing chaos. The effects of this creeping chaos are easily visible in our cities and villages: they deriv ...
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  17 September 2020
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assad "returns" the "Holy Land College" of Aleppo to the Franciscans Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The former "Holy Land College" of Aleppo, historic stronghold of the Custody of the Holy Land in the northern Syrian metropolis, has been officially returned by the Syrian State to the Franciscan ...
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  17 September 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Eucharist at the time of the coronavirus: a drive-in mass Tacloban (Agenzia Fides) - It was necessary to "invent something" to allow the faithful to celebrate the Eucharist safely and "in the presence", not only through the web, while Covid-19 continues to plague the Philippine ...
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  17 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Covid-19: marriages postponed until "it is safe to celebrate the Sacrament with freedom and festivity Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - " The best is to defer marriages until it is safe to celebrate the Sacrament with greater freedom and with greater festivity", said the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Cape Town, Syl ...
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  16 September 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Religious women in southern India feed two thousand people a day, affected by the economic crisis due to Covid-19 Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - An inter-congregational group of nuns in Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka, in southern India, has launched a food security program, managing to provide for the daily sustenance of 2000 poo ...
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  16 September 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "Young missionary disciples, builders of the civilization of Love": encounter of the Andean region Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Youth Pastoral sector of the Episcopal Commission for the Laity of the Episcopal Conference of Ecuador, has organized the XVI Youth Pastoral Meeting of the Andean Region, which will take place ...
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  16 September 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Towards World Mission Day: a thousand faces for mission Sydney - (Agenzia Fides) - A thousand faces for mission: with this spirit, which expresses the universality of the Church's mission and the call of all the baptized to be "sent" to proclaim and witness the Gospel, "Catho ...
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  16 September 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops in the face of the health and social crisis: "Our commitment is the well-being of Peru" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "We are experiencing a difficult period due to the Covid-19 pandemic which has caused more than 30 thousand Peruvian deaths and over 700 thousand infected", the Bishops of Peru write in their state ...
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  16 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 'Your Word is a lamp for my feet': first edition of the Bible in Pazande has been delivered Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - It is an important milestone reached, the culmination of years of hard work, perseverance in missionary work: the first edition of the Bible in the local Pazande language was presented on ...
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  16 September 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christian appointed at the top of the National Investment Authority Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Chaldean Christian Suha Daoud Elias al Najjar is the new President of the Iraqi National Investment Authority, a government body also involved in the management of resources made available by fo ...
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  16 September 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 50 dead in the gold mine collapse in Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are those who wonder why a person should work for 3 euros an hour, or harvest tomatoes for one euro per box, or like young people from Kamituga (Kivu, eastern Congo) dig makeshift mines w ...