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  28 February 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The Bishops after the assassination of the indigenous leader: "Stop violence and hatred! The State must protect the indigenous and fulfill their requests" Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop violence and hatred! Stop killing your brothers!" This is the title of the communiqué of the Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (CEP) that expresses the Bishops' position in the country a ...
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  28 February 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Cardinal Gracias: "We pray and work for peace with Pakistan". Mediation is urgent Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - "We pray and work for peace between India and Pakistan, we call on the rulers to choose the path of dialogue, the situation today is very delicate and we must not make false or hurried steps. We ...
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  28 February 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - "Justice and Peace" Commission: moderation and dialogue between India and Pakistan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Appreciated the moderate and reasonable attitude of Pakistan's military and political leadership. We ask the governments of both India and Pakistan to resume peace talks and resolve all issues t ...
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  28 February 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Evangelising through cinema: 50 years of the Pan-African Festival Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Every year the Ouagadougou Pan-African Film and Television Festival (FESPACO) brings together all the main actors of African cinema. This year, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary, the ...
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  28 February 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - President Aoun at Caritas summit: there is a plan to reshape the Middle East in a racist way Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – One of the major objectives of all the incidents that unfolded over the past years is to make the Middle Eastern societies of Levant racist, unilateral, conflicting and belligerent, that pave ...
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  27 February 2019
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Continental Assembly of the PMS: what does missio ad gentes mean in today's globalized world? Towards the Extraordinary Missionary Month Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The "missionary conversion" of the whole Church requested by Pope Francis was the theme of the Assembly of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies of the American continent, whic ...
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  27 February 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Franciscans on the border with India, on a pilgrimage of peace Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Say "no" to war, bring a message of peace, ask the governments of India and Pakistan not to involve the two peoples in a conflict that would only bring hatred, pain, destruction: with this spirit ...
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  27 February 2019
  ASIA/JORDAN - Ecclesial communities called to sensitize young people on the water emergency Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The German Foundation for International Cooperation (GIZ, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur internationale Zusammenarbeit) sponsored the realization of a study seminar dedicated to the water emergency and ...
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  27 February 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Lasallian Community relaunches the mission on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Founder Bomana (Agenzia Fides) - A conference to revive the mission and take stock of the transformation of the educational communities promoted within the initiatives for the celebrations of the three hundredth anniversary of t ...
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  27 February 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President Buhari re-elected; Church electoral observers report shortcomings in the organization of the vote Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected President of Nigeria, according to the official results of the elections held on 23 February. The main opponent, former Vice President and b ...
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  27 February 2019
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Taiwan to close the Eucharistic Congress, then to Macao and Hong Kong Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, is traveling to Taiwan where he will preside, as Special Envoy of the Holy Father, the closing c ...
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  26 February 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Extraordinary Missionary Month: let us become aware that we are all missionaries "by nature" Formosa (Agenzia Fides) - "Being a missionary is a vocation, a call and an election", says His Exc. Mgr. José Vicente Conejero Gallego to Agenzia Fides, who arrived as a missionary in the Argentine diocese of Formosa in ...
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  26 February 2019
  ASIA/KAZKHSTAN - The Bishop of Almaty: "A year dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: catechesis begins in Kazakh language" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church of Kazakhstan and Central Asia has changed little structurally in the last five years, but we are thinking that it could grow a little bit more. We still do not know how, but we ...
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  26 February 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Young priests of the Church of Milan on pilgrimage to the places of the "Way of the Holy Family" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A large representation of the young priests of the Church of Milan began a pilgrimage to Egypt on Monday 25 February, in which also meetings are included with local Churches and visits to places ...
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  26 February 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Risk of war with India, Church's appeal for peace talks Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "We condemn the terrorist attacks in Kashmir, but also any armed reaction: we ask God to change hearts and men to stop any act that may lead to war. Let us pray for the victims and pray for peac ...