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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 ...
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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 ...