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  26 April 2019
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - PMS Director in Sri Lanka: "The faithful killed are blessed by God. They are martyrs for our Church" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "It is truly sad and heartbreaking to have seen the devastation on a Holy Day like Easter Sunday 2019: it is our black Sunday. The Catholic faithful participated in the Holy Eucharist in the chu ...
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  26 April 2019
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A global initiative of religious journalism New York (Agenzia Fides) - Religion News Foundation (RNF), Religion News Service (RNS), Associated Press (AP) and The Conversation announced a global religion journalism initiative to grow and strengthen religion, ethics ...
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  26 April 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - If workers cannot go to church, we bring the church to the company Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Personal parishes for companies" are an initiative born shortly before the arrival, at the head of the Archdiocese of Mexico City, of Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, and supported by him. The ...
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  26 April 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - "May the care of the elderly and the sick be a priority for candidates in the elections" asks Catholic Health Australia Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The Prime Minister has announced that the federal elections will be held on May 18th. The next few weeks will therefore be very important for Catholic Health Australia, to continue to ask politi ...
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  26 April 2019
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Now a civilian government" asks the population; the Church: "stop discrimination against Christians" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "A civil society movement has for the first time brought all Sudanese people together, and the church is part of it", said Bishop Yunan Tombe Trille Kuku of the Diocese of El-Obeid in south-cen ...
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  25 April 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Catholic Bishops’ shows solidarity to the Sri Lankans after the horrific attacks Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) of Catholic Bishops Conference of Pakistan has strongly condemns these horrific and deadly attacks on people of Sri Lanka held on Easter S ...
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  25 April 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops on changes regarding the electoral law: "What values guide our democracy?" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "A reflective, serious, responsible and objective debate of political leaders, in dialogue with society", is what the Bishops of Paraguay ask for on the occasion of the discussion in Parliament ...
• 25 April 2019
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Resignation of the Archbishop of Mandalay and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Mandalay, Myanmar, presented by H.E. Msgr. Nicholas Mang Thang, and has appointed as his successor ...
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  25 April 2019
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Is solidarity with migrants over in Mexico? Chiapas (Agenzia Fides) - There are many testimonies of Central American migrants crossing the south of Mexico towards the United States, who report what happened last Tuesday, April 23, when they managed to escape the p ...
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  25 April 2019
  AFRICA/BENIN - "Let us pray for peaceful elections" says PMS Diocesan Director of Cotonou Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church invites the faithful to pray so that the Lord will inspire us to find ways to get the country out of the crisis", says Fr. Augustin Placide Houessinon, of the Society of African Miss ...
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  25 April 2019
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Archbishop Dal Toso in Vietnam to encourage missionary animation Hochiminh Ville (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Giampietro Dal Toso, adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), is in Vietnam, for a visit d ...
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  25 April 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Xenophobic wave ahead of elections: triggered by poverty Durban (Agenzia Fides) - A new xenophobic wave has hit South Africa, while attacks against foreign communities in Durban continue. Gangs of South Africans, mostly poor and unemployed people, attack the homes, shops and a ...
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  24 April 2019
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Mass funeral "with tears and sorrow" of those who lost their lives in the Easter attacks Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Church leaders, Catholic families and people of various religions mourned their loved ones killed in the April 21 bombings, who were buried yesterday, April 23rd. The Archbishop of Colombo, Ca ...
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  24 April 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal Nzapalainga celebrated Easter with 500 prisoners Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "It is our duty to show them tenderness and love" said Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, who celebrated Easter with about five hundred prisoners in Ngaragba prison, in the ca ...
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  24 April 2019
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Politicians who do not know how to be a family man cannot be fathers of the Country Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros, in the Dominican Republic, Mgr. Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez, gave his critical view of the political class during the Easter Vigil, ...