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  10 May 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Church launches a professional center; "We want to train the citizens of tomorrow", says Cardinal Nzapalainga Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church wants to train young people and citizens of tomorrow, able to actively participate in the construction and development of the Country", said His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalain ...
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  10 May 2019
  ASIA/JORDAN - Caritas Jordan will offer 10,000 meals to Muslims during Ramadan Amman (Agenzia Fides) - "Ramadan is Different in Generous Jordan". This is the title of the campaign launched by Caritas Jordan for the holy month of Ramadan in 2019. The campaign, which will continue during the month, e ...
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  10 May 2019
  AFRICA - ACI-Africa agency is born, Archbishop Dal Toso: "A sign of hope for the continent" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In these pasts months of my service at the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, in particular as President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, I have been very blessed and cons ...
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  9 May 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Message of the Bishops to the people of God: "Christ is alive and wants you to be alive!" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "The Lord Jesus Christ, in his apparition to the disciples, as the evangelist John tells us, encourages them to cast their nets again, despite the uselessness of their work. The Risen One inv ...
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  9 May 2019
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Builders of bridges, peacemakers: Christians participate in the life of the nation Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Malaysia contributes to the common good of the nation": says to Agenzia Fides Archbishop Julian Leow, at the head of the diocese of Kuala Lumpur, and newly elected President ...
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  9 May 2019
  AMERICA/PERU - Development and reconstruction, to improve the quality of life Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the catastrophe caused by the environmental phenomenon "El Niño" (see Fides, 23/05/2017), with rains, floods and landslides that caused thousands of victims, the small agricultural ...
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  9 May 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church questions the mission of the baptized in the contemporary world Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 500 participants from all over Australia will take part in the "Mission: one heart, many voices" conference scheduled in Sydney from 13 to 15 May, in view of the extraordinary Missi ...
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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 ...