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  5 August 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Safe family, Happy Family: family values at the Film Festival in Port Moresby Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - In the presence of 220 participants including students, parents, teachers and media operators, the third international short film festival 2019 (ISFF19) ended in Port Moresby. Hosted by the ...
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  5 August 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean synod welcomes laity for first time. Letter from Patriarch Sako to Pope Francis Ankawa (Agenzia Fides) - The periodical synodal assembly of the Bishops of the Chaldean Church began on Sunday 4 August with the Eucharistic celebration presided by the Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako. Some sessions of th ...
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  5 August 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A liturgy to invoke "peace and security" in Enugu after the murder of Fr. Paul Offu Enugu (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 4 August, after the violence that continues to upset the lives of the local population and which on 1 August also registered the murder of Catholic priest Paul Offu (in the photo), the l ...
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  3 August 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The commitment for the peace of Central African religious organizations at the center of the next World Peace Assembly Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The religious organizations that support the political agreement for peace and reconciliation in the Central African Republic and the Finn Church Aid met from 30 to 1 August to prepare for the ne ...
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  3 August 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Filoni at the 'Perdonanza bibionese': "Christ has tattooed our name on his hands" Bibione (Agenzia Fides) - "While so many people love to tattoo their bodies, perhaps due to a certain more or less aesthetic exhibitionism, it is nice to think that Christ has tattooed my name on his hands, where he was ...
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  3 August 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Filoni: I saw faith, not hatred, in the eyes of the persecuted because of Christ Concordia Sagittaria (Agenzia Fides) - Even today, the journey of the Church in the world is marked by "martyrdom and persecutions", by "real hatred even in countries of ancient Christian tradition and now also in those ...
• 3 August 2019
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Visit of the Superior of the Missio sui iuris of Afghanistan: "We ask Mary for peace after 40 years of war" Nur-Sultan (Agenzia Fides) - "The visit to Kazakhstan was very interesting in many ways: from a spiritual point of view, it was a pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Virgin, which, from the center of Asia, watches over the e ...
• 1 August 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Holy Trinity Interdiocesan Seminary in Jullundur Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 1, 2019 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Sahaya Thatheus Thomas, of the clergy of the diocese of Simla-Chandig ...
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  1 August 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops to candidates for the elections: "Governing is synonymous with dialogue, listening, building bridges and reconciling" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 July the registration of candidates for the elections of mayors, governors, deputies, councilors and members of local administrative councils for the period 2020-2023 concluded. The Bishop ...
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  1 August 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Prime Minister Imran Khan ensures the protection of religious minorities; for the Church "it is an encouraging step" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The speech of Prime Minister Imran Khan is very encouraging and gives a new hope to the religious minorities living in Pakistan. In the past also the leaderships said such nice words but were n ...
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  1 August 2019
  EUROPE - Season of Creation 2019: time for prayer, forgiveness and commitment for Christians St. Gallen (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) and the Conferences of European Churches are uniting once again this year to reaffirm responsibility for creation and issue an invitation ...
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  1 August 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "We must commit ourselves to ending the violence", says the President of SACBC Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "One of the major problems we face in South Africa are violent protests. Part of this violence is due I think to our absence as Church leaders", said His Exc. Mgr. Sithembele Anton Sipuka, ...
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  1 August 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A year after the murder of Anba Epiphanios, the Coptic Church revokes the stop to monastic vocations Cairo (Agenzia fides) - Coptic monasteries reopen the doors to welcome young people who ask to become monks again, after the admission of novices to monastic communities was suspended a year ago by the Committee for the ...
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  31 July 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - Cardinal Filoni in the diocese of Concordia-Pordenone Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, will visit the diocese of Concordia-Pordenone for two events: the opening of the "Perdonanza Bibionese" and ...
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  31 July 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - Interreligious summit asks politicians to defend national unity against any sectarian drift Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese national unit represents an indispensable guarantee to build a better future for Lebanon, and the coexistence among the different components of the population must be preserved from ...