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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 ...
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  7 May 2019
  AMERICA/HAITI - Gangs kill and terrorize, even blackmail those who carry out humanitarian projects Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Human rights organizations and religious institutions continue to be concerned about the increase in insecurity throughout the country in Haiti, according to a report sent to Fides by loc ...
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  6 May 2019
  EUROPE /CZECH REP. - Spiritual retreat and new impetus for the animators of Missionary Childhood Mountain Hatching (Agenzia Fides) - About forty leaders of the Little Mission Club of Bohemia and Moravia gathered in Mountain Hatching in the Krkonoše Mountains for a meeting promoted by the National Director of the Po ...
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  6 May 2019
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Cardinal D'Rozario to the faithful in Sri Lanka: "We are next to you" Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - "We assure you that we are united with all of you in the sufferings, pains and difficulties you are facing. We pray for all those who have lost their lives, for those who have been injured and for ...
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  6 May 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Dialogue on the release of prisoners and the suspension of international sanctions are blocked Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The regime of President Daniel Ortega wants the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy to ask the international community to suspend sanctions against Nicaragua as a condition for continuing d ...
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  6 May 2019
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Haifa, more than 5 thousand Christians took part in the traditional procession in honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Haifa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 5 thousand Christians took part in the traditional procession in honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, popularly called Taalat al-Adra, the “Ascent of the Virgin”. Along the route which ...
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  6 May 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians and Muslims of India: "Concrete and joint aid to the people of Sri Lanka" Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "As Sri Lanka is a country very close to us, together we intend to offer practical help to allow the victims of the Easter attacks to overcome the unprecedented crisis that has devastated their l ...