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  6 September 2019
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - In memory of Mgr. Proaño the natives ask for respect Quito (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the 31st anniversary of the death of Mgr. Leonidas Proaño, celebrated in various cities of the country, the Catholic community asks to seriously consider the indigenous reality ...
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  6 September 2019
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - "We are waiting for Pope Francis with joy and hope" Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "Pope Francis is awaited with joy by all the Malagasy", says to Agenzia Fides Jean Hervé Rakotozanany, journalist and former editor-in-chief of Radio Don Bosco, Madagascar's most important ...
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  5 September 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Migrants: training manual created by IOM and the Scalabrinians Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to offer an adequate and qualified preparation to our missionaries sent to work in migratory contexts, whose challenges and needs are diversified": says Sister Neusa de Fatima Mari ...
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  5 September 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - On the path towards peace, "without exploiting the Pope's visit", asks a missionary Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – The that welcomes Pope Francis is a Mozambique in the grip of new and ancient problems. A Country that for 35 years has been looking for definitive peace among the main parties (Frelimo, in gov ...
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  5 September 2019
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops' message for the Extraordinary Missionary Month: "let us keep the fire of the mission lit in dioceses and parishes!" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "We welcome with great joy the indication of Pope Francis to live the 2019 Extraordinary Missionary Month" Baptized and sent" and we invite all of you to do it with intensity, in fidelity ...
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  5 September 2019
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Protecting religious harmony: government and communities agree on changes to the law Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church and the leaders of other religious communities are supportive of the proposed changes to Singapore's religious harmony law. As reported to Agenzia Fides, the Archdiocese of ...
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  5 September 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops have expressed their full support for the denunciation of Israeli drone incursions in Lebanese territory Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Maronite Bishops have expressed their full support for the denunciation of Israeli drone incursions in Lebanese territory presented to the UN Security Council by Lebanese political authoritie ...
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  5 September 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Violence against Nigerian migrants; the Bishops: "This is xenophobia, the police does nothing to prevent it" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Tension between Nigeria and South Africa increases due to the violence against the Nigerian community that lives in the southern African country. South Africa has announced that it has temp ...
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  5 September 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Newark’s Cardinal Tobin joins Catholics protesting immigration detention Newark (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, CSsR, Archbishop of Newark, yesterday joined a demonstration of hundreds of people that took place in Newark to denounce the inhuman treatment of immigrant children. Abo ...
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  4 September 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - A new institute to promote peace and interreligious harmony Patna (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, has inaugurated the new Institute of interreligious dialogue of Rajgir (IRDIR) to promote peace, harmony and solidarity among the different ...
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  4 September 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - Conference of Catholic schools: different approaches to the crisis of non-state schools Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of the beginning of the new school year, for the third consecutive year Catholic schools put the situation of severe economic crisis in many private schools at the center of their annu ...
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  4 September 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Enthusiasm for the Pope's video message in Portuguese Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - There is strong enthusiasm in Maputo for the arrival of Pope Francis, whose plane will land on the evening of September 4th. "The video message in which Pope Francis turned to Mozambicans in Port ...
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  4 September 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The martyr Catechists of the Church of Mozambique towards beatification Guiúa (Agenzia Fides) - On March 23, thousands of faithful gathered in the Catechetical Center of Guiúa, diocese of Inhambane, for the conclusion of the diocesan phase of the process of Beatification and Canonization o ...
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  4 September 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Archbishop Dal Toso at the Compostelan Days of Theology: "this world still needs the salvation of Christ" Santiago de Compostela (Agenzia Fides) - "From the Maximum illud to the Extraordinary Missionary Month" is the theme of the report that Archbishop Giampietro Dal Toso, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, prese ...
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  4 September 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Week of prayer for peace and justice announced by the Bishops, in a tense climate Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) has announced a week of prayer for the country with the motto "Justice and peace will kiss each other"; inspired by Psalm 85, which begins on September ...