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  20 October 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Bishop visits the displaced persons of Palu: "I am here to give comfort" Manado (Agenzia Fides) - "I am here to give comfort and encourage the population that suffers": said the Bishop of Manado, Mgr. Benedictus Estephanus Rolly Untu, of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, addressing the di ...
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  20 October 2018
  ASIA/TURKEY: Erdogan calls for autonomy for the Gagauzi people, the Christian Turks of Moldova Komrat (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during his recent visit to Moldova, reached an agreement with Moldavian President Igor Dodon, who fully implemented the status of political-administrative ...
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  20 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Honduran march to the USA continues. Trump: the army will close the borders San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - About 10 thousand Hondurans arrived yesterday, 19 October, on the border with Mexico from Honduras. The Mexican government had announced, like those of El Salvador and Guatema ...
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  19 October 2018
  VATICAN - The Pontifical Mission Societies: support for the proclamation of the Gospel and for the human and cultural growth of peoples Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pontifical Mission Societies were born of young hearts as a means of supporting the preaching of the Gospel to every nation and thus contributing to the human and cultural growth of al ...
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  19 October 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "The hundreds of miners affected by pneumoconiosis are an indictment of human greed" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "For decades, coal mining companies allowed their workers to be exposed to unsafe levels of coal dust. The mines need to take both ethical and legal responsibility for the sick miners", sa ...
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  19 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Church collapses during the prayer of the rosary; at least two dead and one missing Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - At least two people died in the collapse of the church of Sainte Marceline de Minkan in Odza, a suburb of the capital of Cameroon, Yaoundé, which occurred on the evening of 17 October. The col ...
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  18 October 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission supports the construction of a professional training center for women in Myanmar Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank God because the construction of the training center for girls continues and is about to end". We hope that we can soon start decorating the interior spaces. We also thank you for the pr ...
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  18 October 2018
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Once again the Beit Jamal Catholic cemetery desecrated Beit Shemesh (Agenzia Fides) - 28 graves of the cemetery attached to the Salesian convent of Beit Jamal, near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, has one again been desecrated by unknown persons. The discovery of the intim ...
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  18 October 2018
  AFRICA/CONGO - Catholic schools are committed to educating respect for creation, theme taken from the Encyclical Laudato Sì Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - The XIV National Council for Catholic Education was held at the Inter-diocesan Center of Brazzaville from 15 to 17 October on the theme: "respect and integrity of creation in the Catholic sc ...
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  18 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - The Church of Niamey: prayer and fasting for Father Maccalli Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Niamey has begun a prayer triduum for the release of Father Gigi Maccalli. "The last day of the triduum, which takes place from 17 to 19 October, will be a day of fasting that all ...
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  18 October 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church in the Philippines remembers Italian missionary Fausto Tentorio, killed seven years ago Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Seven years have passed since the killing of Italian missionary Fausto Tentorio of PIME, killed on the island of Mindanao on October 17, 2011. On the seventh anniversary of his death, the Church ...
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  17 October 2018
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Lay Camillian Family is the future: a challenge as well as a hope Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The International Assembly of the Lay Camillian Family (FCL) is underway in Rome. Among the participants there are 61 members, presidents and delegates from 23 countries all over the world gathered ...
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  17 October 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Synod on Youth: "Need to take into account the situation of young people and the Church in other parts of the world" says Cardinal Napier Vatican City - (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa is losing some of its most gifted young people to migration because of the exploitation of natural resources and the environment ", said His Eminence Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, ...
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  17 October 2018
  ASIA - The young Christians of Asia, ambassadors of peace Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - Young Christians in Asia are called to be "ambassadors of peace" in the various social and political contexts of the Asian nations where they live. This is what emerges from the third meeting ...
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  17 October 2018
  EUROPE/GERMANY - The President of the PMS: "Even from our desks we can be missionaries" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of his visit to Missio-Aachen (see Fides 16/10/2018), Archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMs), this morning, 17 October, presided ...