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  26 October 2018
  AFRICA/BENIN - The Bishops: "One cannot live sexuality without love" Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "Sexuality is a force that must be learned how to command and steered, otherwise it is like a car, if you cannot drive it, you will have accidents", write the Bishops of Benin in a note in which ...
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  26 October 2018
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Reconciliation and friendship between Sinhalese and Tamil families: the Church's commitment Colombo (Agenzia Fides) – Need to promote mutual knowledge, exchange and hospitality between Sinhalese and Tamil families. This is the intention of a special program of social reconciliation called "Live-in", coordinat ...
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  25 October 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - In the most populous province of the world, peak of anti-Christian violence Nuova Delh (Agenzia Fides) - In Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in the North of India, and considered the most populous administrative division in the world, there is violence against Christians that reaches a ver ...
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  25 October 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Philippines is getting ready for "The Year of Youth" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - 2019 will be "the Year of Youth" in the Philippines: reports the Episcopal Conference of the Philippines, in continuity with the contents of the Synod of Bishops, which is underway in the Vatican ...
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  25 October 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Archbishop emeritus of Lomè: "The Constitution is the path of salvation for democracy" Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the reopening of dialogue between the Government and the opposition, Archbishop emeritus Mgr. Philip Fanoko Kpodzro, who led the transitional parliament in Togo, had launched an ...
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  25 October 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "It is necessary to look at young people with a different gaze" says the Archbishop Coadjutor of Kinshasa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Young Africans want to live and want to live worthily" said His Exc. Mgr. Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Coadjutor Archbishop of Kinshasa and Vice President of CENCO (National Episcopal Conference of C ...
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  25 October 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Fr. Narváez: "Patience and forgiveness are needed for lasting peace" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "It is erroneously believed that forgiveness is only a religious or spiritual resource, but forgiveness is also a political virtue". With this vision, the Foundation for Reconciliation (FR), fou ...
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  24 October 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bible is the most widely read book in the Philippines: 10 million copies have been distributed over 10 years Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Bible was by far the most read book in 2017 in the Philippines. This is stated in a recent survey by the National Book Development Board, a government body. According to the results of the su ...
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  24 October 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - On April 27, 2019 the beatification of Mgr. Angelelli, two priests and a layman in La Rioja La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) - The beatification ceremony of Monsignor Enrique Angelelli, of priests Carlos Murias and Gabriel Longueville and of the layman Wenceslao Pedernera, killed during the dictatorship, in the summer ...
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  24 October 2018
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Fr. Zerai’s alarm: "The regime does not reduce pressure: it is a State-prison" Asmara (Agenzia Fides) – People still flee from Eritrea. The official end of the war with Ethiopia has not stopped the exodus. Boys and girls run away from an oppressive regime and from a very poor society that does no ...
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  24 October 2018
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Bishops and the "human tragedy" of the caravan: "we were deaf to the cries of their rights" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Honduras are concerned about the serious migration crisis of thousands of Hondurans who are leaving the country. The caravan now has arrived in Mexico, and the US government h ...
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  24 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest denounces: "It is poverty, not religion or ethnicity, that drives young people to become terrorists" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - We need to change the narrative on the causes of the spread of terrorism in Nigeria, says Fr. Cornelius Afebu Omonokhua, Director of the mission and dialogue Office of the Episcopal Conference of ...
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  24 October 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholics contribute to the fight against corruption Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - While the Indonesian government led by President Joko Widodo has launched a special economic system to reduce corruption, even the Catholic faithful do their part to fight it. According to obser ...
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  23 October 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Victims of conflict, migrants, social leaders in danger: Colombian Bishops call for collaboration in Europe Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The European Parliament, the French Parliament, the British Government, the Commissions of the Episcopates of the European Union, France, England and Wales, Internationalis and German Caritas, as ...
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  23 October 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The first National Festival of Sacred Music: a universal message of peace Ambon (Agenzia Fides) - Music is a means of elevating the spirit of man towards God, it is a universal language and is a vehicle to send to Indonesia, to believers of all religions, a message of reconciliation and peace: ...