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  29 October 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protests of Christians: withdraw the blasphemous TV series Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The promo launched by the famous broadcaster Geo TV uses symbols of Catholic faith like the crucifix and the holy rosary, and in the second scene openly hurts the sentiments of the Christian ...
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  29 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Presidential vote: the doubts of members of the Church Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "I question myself on the conduct of the vote", said His Exc. Mgr. Samuel Kleda, Archbishop of Douala, the day after the re-election of Paul Biya as President of Cameroon for the seventh time. ...
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  29 October 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - To bring the light of Christ to prisoners in the Philippines Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Our attention is focused on the condition of our brothers and sisters who are in prison, deprived of their liberty and deprived of their most basic human rights, we are all aware, for example, o ...
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  29 October 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch: the "government of national unity" must be open to all political forces Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A possible Lebanese "national unity" government must necessarily "group all the Lebanese political forces", and not just divide the ministries among the political forces that won the elections. T ...
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  29 October 2018
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Bishops on the consultation for the new Constitution: conscious and responsible participation of all Havana (Agenzia Fides) - In a long and articulated pastoral Letter just published, the Episcopal Conference of Cuba has expressed itself on the project of the new Constitution of the country which, at the end of the revi ...
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  29 October 2018
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The Barnabite in Kabul: "The Taliban defeated in the elections, the desire for peace is stronger than bombs" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "If we were to evaluate the elections for the renewal of the Lower House (Wolesi Jirga) of the Afghan Parliament according to our parameters, one could say that they were a total failure. If, howe ...
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  27 October 2018
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Mgr. Mtumbuka visits one of Malawi's most neglected communities as as part of the celebration of Mission Month Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus was incarnated in human condition to save us and died on the cross out of love; it is this love that we must take to others as well. Those who have received the faith are obliged by the ...
• 26 October 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Appointment of the Rector of the Interdiocesan Theological Seminary in the Archdiocese of Lomé Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 18 July 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Etienne Inibide, of the diocesan clergy of Kara as Rector of ...
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  26 October 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - US Commission for religious freedom: "The Church in Nicaragua must be protected, not aggressively attacked" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, Samuel D. Brownback, said that "the situation of the Catholic clergy in Nicaragua is not acceptable" and believes tha ...
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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 ...