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  30 November 2018
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Local bishop encourages people "let us enhance the spiritual life of our Church in Dili "" ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Local bishop encourages his people "let us enhance the spiritual life of our Church in Dili " Dili (Agenzia FIdes) - "We must enhance the spiritual life of our Church in Dili " the Salesian Bishop V ...
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  30 November 2018
  VATICAN - “The Church is missionary by nature”: Looking towards the Extraordinary Mission Month in October 2019 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The Church is missionary by nature”. Church teaching illustrates this paradigm: starting with Maximum Illud by Pope Benedict XV; then the Council decree Ad Gentes; confirming it w ...
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  30 November 2018
  VATICAN - Extraordinary Mission Month October 2019: presentation of web site, Guide, video Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Various initiatives have been launched by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of People and the Pontifical Mission Societies to publicise the MMS, Extraordinary Mission Month schedu ...
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  30 November 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Release of kidnapped Claretian missionaries: "Our thoughts went to our martyrs" Yaoundè (Agenzia Fides) – "We thank everyone for the solidarity shown during our captivity. It was no easy experience. In those difficult days our thoughts and prayers went to the Martyrs of our Congregation. For ...
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  30 November 2018
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops address situation of violence: “we are working tirelessly for social justice and peace” Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – "Social Peace, fruit of justice and conversion of heart", is the title of a text issued yesterday by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Paraguay CEP, denouncing "grave acts of crimina ...
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  29 November 2018
  ASIA/INDIA -Victims of Orissa massacres confirm and celebrate: “Christ the King of peace, truth, love and brotherhood” Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) – A touching profession of faith reaches us from Indian Christians in Kandhamal district, Orissa State, where repeated massacres committed by Hindu extremists since 2008, crimes of authe ...
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  29 November 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - local Catholic Church on mission southward Robe (Agenzia Fides) – The presence of the Catholic Church in the Ethiopian region of Oromia has spread another hundred kilometres from Dallo Manna, southward in the province of Madda Walabu. It is still a presence o ...
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  29 November 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKISTAN - Arc Village, oasis for Kazak children Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - “As we watch our young people teaching new young arrivals here in Arc Village we think : how lovely it would be if their real mothers could be with them. But this is their story and we bec ...
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  29 November 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - President of Iraq informs Patriarchs: I have invited the Pope to pray together in memory of Abraham Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – The principle of citizenship is for “all people to live in a land of all peoples”, in a nation whose citizens are all equal, free of any discrimination cultural, ethnic or religious. A l ...
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  29 November 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Continent of starving masses and economic potential to defeat poverty hosts G20 Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – Drug addiction and endless social crises were the topics discussed yesterday 28 November at the Offices of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Argentina by two Bishops representing the Bis ...
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  29 November 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops tell government: “We must unite to fight people-trafficking” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The Church and the government in Nigeria must work together to restore the dignity of victims of people-trafficking said Archbishop Augustine Obiora Akubeze of Benin City also President of the ...
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  26 November 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church of the Philippines launches the Year of Youth Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in the Philippines inaugurated the Year of Youth on the Solemnity of Christ the King, and announced the National Youth Day 2019. The Episcopal Conference has officially announced that 20 ...
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  26 November 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Massacre of Alindao; the Bishops: "To protect lives is the first duty of the State"; Sunday 2 December day of mourning Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The human person is sacred and inviolable. All agents of public power, all organizations, have an absolute obligation to respect and protect the human person ". This is the first article of the ...
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  26 November 2018
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The memory of the Vietnamese martyrs nurtures faith in the present Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The memory of the Vietnamese martyrs nurtures faith in the present: with this spirit the Church in Vietnam celebrated a special Jubilee for the 30th anniversary of the canonization of the 117 Viet ...
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  26 November 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Three Claretian religious abducted in the Anglophone region of the south-west Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - Three Claretians (Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) were kidnapped in the Anglophone region in southwest Cameroon: Fr. Jude Thaddeus Langeh Basebang, Fr. Placide Muntong and a st ...