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  2 October 2019
  VATICAN - The Pope opens the Extraordinary Missionary Month: "to motivate us to be active in doing good" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Lord calls us to make our talents bear fruit, with boldness and creativity. God will ask us if we stepped forward and took risks, even losing face. This extraordinary Missionary Month ...
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  2 October 2019
  AMERICA/PERU - In the face of the crisis, Mgr. Cabrejos calls for "political maturity for the 33 million Peruvians Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From the Vatican, where he is to participate in the Synod on the Amazon, the President of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, sent Agenzia Fides a declaration on the crisis that opened in Pe ...
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  2 October 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - A genuine and solid educational system is needed to limit the horror of violence Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Violence, sacrifices of children, suicides, increased child pregnancies, incivility, criminality, are among the many evils that undermine Ivorian society. "The Ivory Coast is getting worse in th ...
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  2 October 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Pakistani Church: the gift of the Word of God for the mission Karachi (Agenzia Fides): "We encourage the faithful, especially young people, to read the Word of God daily, at least two or three minutes each day, in order to become stronger in faith and to proclaim it to others. We h ...
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  2 October 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Let's help Fidei Donum priests" urges the National Director of the PMS Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Bonaventure Luchidio, Coordinator of Fidei Donum Programs in Kenya, and Executive Secretary for Commissions for Missions at the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), and National Dire ...
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  2 October 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - "Come and see". The Chaldean Patriarch inaugurates the Extraordinary Missionary Month in Iraq Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Extraordinary Missionary Month "October 2019" also opened in Iraq with a liturgical celebration presided over by Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako in Baghdad, in the Cathedral of St. Jos ...
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  1 October 2019
  AMERICA/HAITI - The bishops: "Violence has an origin ... No people should accept poverty" Les Cayes (Agenzia Fides) - "This is no longer the moment to proclaim that we are all guilty. That is not the truth. Nor to say that we condemn violence from wherever come; it has an origin" stressed the Episcopal Confer ...
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  1 October 2019
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Extraordinary Missionary Month: “Be missionaries, not spectators” the Bishops exhort Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We want you to rekindle your missionary spirit in order to proclaim Christ's Salvation everywhere", write the Bishops of Burundi, in the message for the Extraordinary Missionary Month which o ...
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  1 October 2019
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cardinal Tagle: small acts of charity to reduce poverty in the country and in the world Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila wants to expand a program currently underway in the Archdiocese of Manila to all the Philippines and also abroad, which has the aim of reducing poverty and c ...
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  1 October 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The youth of Juba axis of Catholicism, missionaries in the archdiocese Juba (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the celebrations for the centenary of the South Sudanese Catholic Church, the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Juba, Mgr. Santo Loku Pio, the head of the Committee for Cent ...
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  1 October 2019
  ASIA - Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia jointly support an "anti-Islamophobia" TV project Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The new television channel sponsored by the governments of Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia with the declared aim of spreading correct information about Islam and countering the growing Islamophobia ...
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  1 October 2019
  VATICAN - "Christ fulfills his mission": the Extraordinary Missionary Month begins Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission is first and foremost the work of God himself and is entrusted to the disciples who place Christ at the center of their lives. The Church lives and carries out the mission entruste ...
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  30 September 2019
  AFRICA/GABON - Archbishop Dal Toso presides over the celebration of 175 years of evangelization Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - All the "spiritual and pastoral fervor", which characterized the year of preparation for the 175 years of evangelization of Gabon (see Fides, 27 and 28/9/2019), "will not stop at the closing ...
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  30 September 2019
  VATICAN - "An extraordinary time of missionary activity" begins tomorrow Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "For the month of October 2019 I asked the whole Church to live an extraordinary time of missionary activity to commemorate the centenary of the promulgation of the Apostolic Letter Maximum ...
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  30 September 2019
  AFRICA/GABON - "The Jubilee was important to reinvigorate the Church in Gabon", says the Nuncio Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - "We are satisfied for the participation of the faithful in the closing ceremony of the Jubilee" says His Exc. Mgr. Francisco Escalante Molina, Apostolic Nuncio in Gabon and in Congo Brazzavil ...