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  9 May 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Let us proclaim that the Lord has risen: let us not be intimidated by reports of brutal violence" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Rampant killings, corruption and abortions reported regularly on news saying they are causing pain families, friends and society. Today the news we read or watch speaks mainly of the atrocious ...
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  9 May 2019
  EUROPE/ITALY - The memory of Father Maccalli is constant among the confreres gathered at the General Chapter Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Thought and prayer for our father Luigi Maccalli, kidnapped eight months ago in Niger, is present in a special way among us". This is what Fr. Ceferino Cainelli, Argentine priest of the Society of ...
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  9 May 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - Aoun receives delegates and partners of the Council of Churches of the Middle East Beirut (Lebanon) - Lebanon has a specific vocation in fostering dialogue between civilizations and in the encounter between cultures, for the historical event that has made it more than just a crossroads between East and ...
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  8 May 2019
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops to the faithful: "Vote responsibly, to fight corruption" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "We need to vote responsibly and wisely. People cannot expect a change if they continue to vote for corrupt politicians: this is the appeal launched by Bishop Francisco De Leon, at the head of th ...
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  8 May 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Jean Vanier: "missionary of tenderness" Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "What we don't want to lose sight of - and what we want to ponder, celebrate and proclaim – is that Jean Vanier was a missionary", said Donald R. McCrabb, Executive Director of the United S ...
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  8 May 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - It is a humanitarian crisis: thousands of people have gone days without eating and sleep in the streets Tapachula (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of migrants in Mexico is getting worse by the day. On the northern border, with the United States, the increase in migrants is creating a logistical crisis in the attempt to welc ...
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  8 May 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Assembly of Bishops: Extraordinary Missionary Month experience of communion with the Church throughout the world Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - "The extraordinary thing about this Missionary Month is that, for the first time in history, the Holy Father, the Pope, announces a month like this for the Catholic Church throughout the world ...
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  8 May 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Asia Bibi arrives in Canada. Christians: "Justice has been dispensed" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Asia Bibi, the woman unjustly sentenced to death for blasphemy and acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 31 October 2018, has arrived in Canada, where she has riunited with her family. T ...
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  8 May 2019
  AFRICA - To remain true witnesses of life: an imperative for African Christian women Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "One of the great revolutions in the history of Easter was to discover that the people who first brought the message of the resurrection to the world were women. Suddenly they found themselves inve ...
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  8 May 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The migration of young Nigerians marks the failure of an entire leadership" accuses Cardinal Onaiyekan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "If you live in a country where young people tell you that it is better to live elsewhere, this is the sign of the failure of an entire leadership", accuses Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Arc ...
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  7 May 2019
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - In the face of economic crisis the Bishops call for "a new way of doing politics" Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "We need a new way of doing politics that, beyond particular interests, seeks the common good and promotes a great national pact at the service of citizens": say the Bishops of Ecuador in the stat ...
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  7 May 2019
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdallah II makes donation to Church of the Holy Sepulchre restoration Amman (Agenzia Fides) - King Abdallah II of Jordan made a donation for restoring of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem at his own expense. Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine and Jordan, ...
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  7 May 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Bishops promote the leadership of Catholic women, in view of the elections Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Leadership for Salvation" this is the theme of the course in which 69 women from the eight Catholic dioceses of Malawi took part in recent days. The course was organized by the Bishops' Confer ...
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  7 May 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “No to violence; yes to a free and peaceful vote”, the Bishops appeal on the eve of the elections Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Fellow South Africans, brothers and sisters, we beg you in the name of our common humanity and spiritual values to behave peacefully before, during and after the elections", the Bishops of ...
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  7 May 2019
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Cardinal Ranjith's appeal: "Let us not allow hatred to triumph Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - We must not let "hatred triumph and must not allow the Easter violence to become an opportunity to polarize society and divide the nation": this is the new appeal launched by Cardinal Malcolm Ra ...