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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: ...
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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 ...