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  23 October 2018
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Radio Maria Liberia remembers and prays for the abducted missionary in Niger every day Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "Every day a prayer is held at Radio Maria Liberia for the release of my brother Fr. Gigi Maccalli": says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Walter Maccalli, brother of the missionary kidnapped in Niger. The two ...
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  23 October 2018
  VATICAN - Fr. Meroni: "The missio ad gentes, model of the evangelizing mission of the Church" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The missio ad gentes is the original form, the paradigm and the model that sets up the whole evangelizing mission of the Church because it expresses the proclamation of the Gospel and the sacramen ...
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  23 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "Listening to the cries of the brother for us Christians means commitment and action" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - With the title "The cries of the poor", the Episcopal Conference of Mexico (CEM) has just published a letter to remind the Mexican community that the Catholic Church, at the invitation of Po ...
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  23 October 2018
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - The largest gathering of young Catholics in the Arabian Peninsula is approaching Ras Al Khaimah (Agenzia Fides) - More than 1,000 young Catholics between the ages of 18 to 35, from across the Arabian Peninsula, will make their way to Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates for a two-day event, on ...
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  23 October 2018
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Young people from Burkina Faso and Niger are also bewitched by smartphones Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I believe that the Synod will be of great benefit to the young people of Burkina Faso and Niger" said His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Sayaogo, Bishop of Manga (Burkina Faso), representing Burkina Faso and N ...
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  22 October 2018
  VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: "Let us to pray so that the new generations may not lack the proclamation of the faith and the call to collaborate in the mission of the Church" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday 21 October, 92nd World Mission Day, the Holy Father Francis recalled the anniversary during the Angelus, with these words: "Today we celebrate World Mission Day, on the th ...
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  22 October 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Young Lebanese Christians elaborate projects and proposals to promote Tripoli as a city of peace Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - 30 young Lebanese Christians took part in the training program entitled "The future of Christians in Tripoli: challenges and prospects for the new generation", organized by the St. Francis Conve ...
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  22 October 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - The Pope to young Indians at the national assembly: "Make your lives fruitful" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The first national Catholic Indian youth conference kicked off yesterday, 21 October. The conference is organized by the Youth Commission within the Bishops' Conference of India (CCBI), which ...
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  22 October 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Justice and freedom": the requests of the population resound in the Cathedral of Managua Managua (Agenzia Fides) - For three weeks now, the military forces of the government have tightened controls on the protest marches of the population, preventing any kind of public demonstration in the streets of the cap ...
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  22 October 2018
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Historic event for the diocese of Auki: the first native bishop of the Solomon Islands Auki (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Peter Houhou is the first native Solomon Islander to be appointed as Bishop in the Solomon Islands. As Agenzia Fides learns, the diocese of Auki, Malaita province, has in fact been the protago ...
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  22 October 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "It is our duty to give young people a perspective of life" says Cardinal Nzapalainga Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Central African Youth is sick" said His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, on the margin of the XV Ordinary General Assemb ...
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  20 October 2018
  VATICAN - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS 2018 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, which this year celebrates its 92nd anniversary on Sunday, October 21, 2018, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panora ...
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  20 October 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - "The beauty of being small" in the Kazakh Church Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "When I think about the Kazakh Catholics, I am always amazed at the greatness of their faith. They do not have ancient traditions and Catholic roots, but I see a profound devotion to the Church, ...
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  20 October 2018
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - World Mission Day: the experience of a missionary who visits prisoners Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - Every week Alex Goffinet, a French white father who has been on a mission in Africa since 1962, visits the prison in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He listens to prisoners, gives t ...
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  20 October 2018
  VATICAN - Share the Journey: fight fear by walking with migrants and refugees Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila and President of Caritas Internationalis, invites communities of citizens all over the world to fight hatred and fear with a million-year m ...