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24 October 2019
ASIA/LEBANON - Church Leaders "embrace" the anti-system revolt
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Heads of Churches and Christian communities present in Lebanon pay homage "to the people who expressed their unity" and ask to "embrace and protect the legitimate revolt of our children", str ...
23 October 2019
NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Missionaries in Taiwan: "Like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants"
In Taiwan, more than the "mission of the Church", it is better to refer to it as "Church of the mission". In fact, in a place that is so "ignorant" to Christ, it is nearly impossible to consider the mission as something ...
23 October 2019
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - A lay missionary, an apostle of lepers, towards beatification
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The cause for the beatification of British-born John Bradburne, a Franciscan secular missionary, has started in Zimbabwe. His life and his testimony of faith in the midst of the lepers will be ex ...
23 October 2019
EUROPE/CZECH REP. - "The big power of small deeds": the seventh national mission congress of children from Holy Childhood
Kroměříž (Agenzia Fides) - Promoted by the National Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies of the Czech Republic, the seventh National Mission Congress of the children of the Pontifical Society of Holy Childho ...
23 October 2019
AMERICA/HAITI - "Listen to the voice of wisdom": the appeal of the Bishops to the President and the government in the face of the suffering of the people
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the Haitian Catholic Church have asked President Jovenel Moise, and the political class in general, to listen to the "voice of wisdom" in the face of the "serious" ...
23 October 2019
AFRICA/MALAWI - The Church in prayer to quell political tensions and promote reconciliation
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The results of the presidential elections held last May 21, 2019 (see Fides, 21/5/2019) are still being disputed and the issue has been brought to court. Mgr. Gianfranco Gallone, Apostolic Nunc ...
23 October 2019
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Extraordinary Missionary Month: the Word of God is at the center of the mission
Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The Word of God is at the heart of the Church's mission, which Christians announce and give to the whole world, as a message of salvation for humanity: it is with this spirit that the Catholics of ...
23 October 2019
AMERICA/BRAZIL - New missionary presence of the Opera Don Orione in the Amazon region
Boa Vista (Agenzia Fides) - New missionary presence of the Opera Don Orione in the Amazon: in the city of Candeias do Jamari, in the state of Rondonia, and near Boa Vista, capital of the state of Roraima. Furthermore the ...
19 October 2019
VATICAN - Catholic Church Statistics 2019
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 93rd World Mission Sunday, October 20, 2019, which is celebrated in the context of the Extraordinary Missionary Month October 2019, announced by Pope Francis in the c ...
18 October 2019
EUROPE/ITALY - The beatification of Father Cremonesi, martyr, on the eve of Mission Day in the Extraordinary Missionary Month
Crema (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday 19 October, on the eve of World Mission Sunday, in the heart of the Extraordinary Missionary Month announced by Pope Francis for this October 2019, the solemn liturgy of the Beatific ...
18 October 2019
AFRICA/MALAWI - Extraordinary Missionary Month: lay people committed to evangelization
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - It will be the parish of St. Pius, in the archdiocese of Blantyre, to host the culminating event of the Extraordinary Missionary Month, that is, the Sunday Eucharistic Celebration in which the ...
18 October 2019
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Extraordinary Missionary Month: priests ready for the mission ad gentes
Kuching (Agenzia Fides) - The priests of the archdiocese of Kuching, in Malaysia and of the Apostolic Vicariate of Brunei have renewed their commitment to the mission ad gentes. In living the extraordinary missionary Mon ...
18 October 2019
ASIA/VIETNAM - "Make your dreams come true": the Academic Year begins at the Xuan Loc Higher Institute
Xuan Loc (Agenzia Fides) - "You have chosen the school, place where you have nurtured your dreams, now fulfill them, transforming the teachings received into 'capital of life' and become witnesses of God in the various e ...
18 October 2019
ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish media: the military offensive in Syria is not against Christians
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish military intervention in the north-east of Syria does not aim to hit or penalize the Christian communities present in that area, and the alarms launched in this regard by the media ...
18 October 2019
ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of Coadjutor Bishop of Lashio
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese of Lashio, Myanmar, the Reverend Father Lucas Dau Ze Jeimphaung, S.D.B., currently provincial counsellor and Rector of the S ...
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