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  30 July 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexican laity have their patron: blessed Anacleto González Flores, martyr Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "With great joy, the Mexican Bishops' Conference announced that the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments approved that Blessed Anacleto González Flores, mart ...
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  30 July 2019
  ASIA/TURKEY - There are 12 potential candidates for the office of Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - At least 12 bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church are eligible to be elected as Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, which remained vacant after the death of Mesrob II Mutafyan, who had bee ...
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  30 July 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Human trafficking: "Let us not be distracted! There is a lot of complicity ..." San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) - "Where is the brother you kill every day in the small clandestine factory, in the prostitution network, in children used for begging? Let us not be distracted! There is a lot of complicity ... ...
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  30 July 2019
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Ouédraogo elected President of SECAM Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - At the close of the SECAM Golden Jubilee Celebrations and Plenary Assembly, the Bishops of Africa elected the Archbishop of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo ...
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  30 July 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Church and government at the forefront of the restoration of the ancient St. Patrick's Cathedral Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - St. Patrick's Cathedral was the first church built in Karachi and province. The building, standing for 175 years, is currently undergoing a three-year restoration project. "This year we celebra ...
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  30 July 2019
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Extraordinary Missionary Month unites Poland and Lithuania Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Alessandro Barelli, SDB, is the first National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the history of Lithuania (see Fides, 25/7/2019). These days he met Mgr. Tomasz Atłas, N ...
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  29 July 2019
  VATICAN - The Congregation of “Propaganda Fide” establishes a “Redemptoris Mater” College in Macao for evangelization in Asia Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has officially established the Redemptoris Mater College for Evangelization in Asia, based in Macau, entrusting it to the Neocatechumenal ...
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  29 July 2019
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni: "The new College in Macau, fruit of apostolic creativity and the desire to be a Church that goes forth" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The new Redemptoris Mater College for Evangelization in Asia, based in Macao, is "the fruit of apostolic creativity that looks to evangelization in that continent and expresses a will of de ...
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  29 July 2019
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Bishops call for the protection of minors against child trafficking, child labor and child soldiers Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Child trafficking, child labour and the issue of child soldier continue to persist in many parts of the world, despite laws against it. "The protection of minors is an integral part of the Gosp ...
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  29 July 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - We ask God for the courage to hear the cry for help of the victims of trafficking Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask the God of life for the courage and decision to listen to the cry for help of so many sisters and brothers deprived of their dignity and their freedom, and to accompany them, defend ...
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  27 July 2019
  AFRICA/BENIN - Salesian commitment to children, victims of exploitation: "to rekindle the light of hope in their lives" Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "In Benin, children living on the streets count for nothing, although important documents have been approved to protect children. Their lives are at risk every day: we try to offer them protecti ...
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  27 July 2019
  AFRICA/CHAD - A cereal bank against exploitation and poverty N’Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - A bank to defeat drought, hunger and exploitation. In its coffers there are no gold bars or even precious currency, but cereals. This is what, Father Franco Martellozzo, an Italian Jesuit fo ...
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  27 July 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - A member of the Christian Brothers awarded as interpreter of Aboriginal communities Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Friar Steve Morelli, a member of the Congregation of Christian Brothers in Australia, was honored with the "Patji-Dawes" Award, the most important Australian award dedicated to teaching languages ...
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  27 July 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - In the Year of Youth the Church promotes training courses for catechists and animators Ayubia (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to be open to the authentic teachings of the Catholic Church; the sessions Youth Catechism YOUCAT (the Catechism of the Catholic Church for young people) and DOCAT (the social teachings ...
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  27 July 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - An organic plan for the formation and organization of the laity based on evangelization Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - On the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the National Council of the Laity, the Bishops’ Conference of Colombia (CEC) promoted a national meeting which was held from July 22nd to 24 ...