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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 ...
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  17 October 2018
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - The demolition of the village of Khan al Ahmar begins. Appeal of the Episcopal Justice and Peace Commission Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Tuesday, October 16, three bulldozers continued the work of leveling the land around the Bedouin village of Khan al Ahmar, in the occupied West Bank, east of Jerusalem, in an area c ...
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  17 October 2018
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "We are not criminals, we are migrants": three thousand Hondurans fleeing their country San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - They have now traveled about 300 km, from Tegucigalpa (Honduras) to Zacapa (Guatemala): there are about three thousand Hondurans who during their their journey to the United States welco ...
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  16 October 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Presidential run-off, the Church: "Need to protect the Constitution and democracy" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "The Constitution is intended to ensure the exercise of social and individual rights, as supreme values of a fraternal, plural society and without prejudices", and today the Charter "is affecte ...
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  16 October 2018
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Archbishop Dal Toso in Aachen meets the National Directorate of Missio and Missionary Childhood Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) is in Aachen, Germany, for a two-day visit at the National Directorate of Missio and of Missionary Childho ...
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  16 October 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Trial for seven innocent Christians: appeal for their release New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to speed up the judicial process which sees seven innocent Christians of Kandhamal, a district in the Indian state of Orissa, in prison. The seven have been languishing in jail be ...
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  16 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - A young seminarian killed in the English-speaking region Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - A seminarian was killed in one of the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon. According to a statement signed by His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Fontem Esua, Archbishop of Bamenda, the young seminari ...