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  13 November 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic women are committed to promoting human dignity and prosperity Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesian Catholic women are committed to promoting human dignity, prosperity and harmony in society. This was reiterated by over 600 delegates attending the 20th Congress of the Catholic Women ...
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  12 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Angola calls priests and religious to renew themselves for "a Church where the joy of the Gospel resounds" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I repeat the invitation of the Holy Father to renew, today and now, your personal encounter with Jesus Christ and to let yourselves meet him. Only in this way you can give a new impact to ...
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  12 November 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The four priests kidnapped in southern Nigeria have been released thanks to the police force Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The four priests kidnapped on 6 November near Abraka, near Benin in the Delta State, in southern Nigeria (see Fides 10/11/2018) have regained their freedom. The priests were kidnapped on their wa ...
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  12 November 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Human mobility and migration: a challenge for today's Christians Fr. Delmar Alberto Silva Paez, Scalabrinian, Superior in the province of his congregation that includes Asia and Australia, at the conclusion of the General Chapter of his congregation helps to reflect on the phenomenon ...
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  12 November 2018
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A priest: "The nation needs a strong and stable democracy" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The people of Sri Lanka need a strong and stable democracy": says Father Shankar Pereira, a Catholic priest and human rights activist, to Agenzia Fides, while in the country there is a politica ...
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  12 November 2018
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - The situation of migrants is increasingly difficult: the help of a 84-year-old Redemptorist priest Baltimore (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of migrants in the United States is increasingly becoming a "situation at risk" due to the tension created by the caravan of Central American migrants that is now close to the bo ...
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  12 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni's exhortation to the Bishops of Saurimo: "be united and supportive" Saurimo (Agenzia Fides) - A vibrant exhortation to be "united and supportive", to consolidate the spirit of ecclesial and fraternal communion and solicitude for the sister Churches, so that the ministry is fruitful, was ...
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  9 November 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Bishops: "overcoming formal democracy and deepening participatory democracy" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "For years we have asked to overcome a purely formal democracy and deepen participatory democracy", said the President of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference (CEB), Mgr. Ricardo Centellas, Bish ...
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  9 November 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni in Angola and São Tomé for the 50th anniversary of the Episcopal Conference Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, will be on a pastoral visit in Angola and the archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe from 10 to ...
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  9 November 2018
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Two ex presidents neck and neck in Madagascar elections Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Madagascar is waiting for the final results of the first round of the presidential elections held on 7 November. According to a first partial count, announced yesterday, by the Independent ...
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  9 November 2018
  ASIA/ISRAEL - US Churches write to Pompey: no to Israeli law on the confiscation of ecclesiastical properties Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Dozens of heads of churches in the United States sent a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressing concern over the 'Properties Bill,' which has recently been advanced in the Knes ...
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  9 November 2018
  VATICAN - "Being Church is the basis of every collection of funds for missions": the reflection of the Pontifical Mission Societies Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The basis of fundraising comes from the Gospel itself: when one thinks of donations, the offerings to be devolved to the missions of the Church, we must go back to the roots to find the motivation ...
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  8 November 2018
  ASIA/CHINA - The elderly, a precious resource for the Church Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The elderly teach faith and are masters of evangelization, thanks to their experience of life: with this spirit of gratitude towards the elderly, for their zeal and contribution to the life of t ...
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  8 November 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Day of the Poor: not only welfare, but a commitment to transforming society Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – To react to the culture of waste, promoting the culture of encounter, strengthening the Christian communities so that they may be more and more a concrete sign of Christ's love for the last and ...
• 8 November 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Adrian Loza, OFM Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 6 September 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Adrian Loza, OFM as National Director of the Pontifical M ...