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  6 October 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Cardinal Porras: Venezuelan migration is an excrutiating reality Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Baltasar Porras, after his return to Venezuela, wanted to comment on the reality of migration in the entire Latin American context. "It is not a group that goes away, it is a multitude ...
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  5 October 2018
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - The Missio sui iuris celebrates 21 years Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - The Tajik Catholic Church has celebrated 21 years since the establishment of the Missio sui Iuris. This is what Father Pedro Ramiro López reports to Agenzia Fides, a priest of the Institute of ...
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  5 October 2018
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - The Church listens to young people and reaches out to them Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - Listening to young people, sharing their knowledge and difficulties, raising awareness and including them in programs and services provided by Caritas and other socially responsible partner or ...
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  5 October 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - A "wounded and bleeding" society: new protests announced while repression continues Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "The people who do not know their own history are condemned to repeat it" is one of the popular expressions in Latin America. In Nicaragua, since the beginning of the demonstrations against the ...
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  5 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Tension on the eve of the presidential vote Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - There are 9 candidates for the presidential election scheduled for Sunday 7 October in Cameroon. Among these there is outgoing President, Paul Biya, 85, in power since 1982, who aims at obtaini ...
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  4 October 2018
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Church alongside the government: to improve the quality of life of the population Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - The reconstruction works of various oil plants announced by Makhambet Dosmukhambetov, Deputy Minister for Energy in Kazakhstan, will bring "improvements in the quality of life of the Kazakh peopl ...
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  4 October 2018
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "The war in South Sudan has also hit the Church in Sudan" says the Bishop of El Obeid Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The separation between Sudan and South Sudan has left a great emptiness at an ecclesial level here in the North", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Yunan Tombe Triller Kuku Andali, Bishop of El ...
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  4 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Alarm of Christian leaders: violence mainly affects women, children and the elderly Jos (Agenzia Fides) - About 6 thousand people, especially women, children and the elderly, of families of Christian farmers were brutally mutilated and killed in night raids by Fulani armed herdsmen, starting from Januar ...
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  4 October 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Caritas implements a National Refugee Integration Plan Roraima (Agenzia Fides) - A "national plan for integration" and solidarity towards refugees: this is what the Brazilian Church has presented in response to the emergency in the country. The plan was launched with the sup ...
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  3 October 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian monks and volunteers at the service of all: Kurds and refugees, without distinction of faith or ethnic group Sulaymaniyya (Agenzia Fides) – In Sulaymaniyya, in Iraqi Kurdistan, there are currently no tensions, but the refugee emergency, caused by the war against ISIS and the internal instability of Iraq, has not ended. This i ...
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  3 October 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic religious congregations to help the population affected by the earthquake and tsunami Manado (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Andi Suparman, Camillian of Maumere, will travel to Manado this week to meet with the humanitarian mission's contact person in the diocese of Manado and discuss how to proceed and how to ...
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  3 October 2018
  ASIA/THAILAND - Fight against AIDS: the Verbite missionaries promote assistance and prevention programs in schools Nong Bua Lamphu (Agenzia Fides) - The missionaries of the Society of the Divine Word (Verbite), together with many lay volunteers, are committed to assisting, giving dignity and giving renewed hope to AIDS patients. The ...
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  3 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Archbishop Dal Toso: "It is also essential for today's missionary to use the language of one's contemporaries" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "First of all, I would like to thank you for inviting me to inaugurate this Missionary Year in Mexico. Pope Francis wanted a Missionary Month for the Universal Church in October 2019, but th ...
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  3 October 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The President of the PMS entrusts the Missionary Year to the Virgin of Guadalupe Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of Tuesday, 2nd October, the Feast of the Guardian Angels, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the magazine Ad Gentes and the opening of the Missionary Year in Mexico, ...
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  3 October 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The presence of foreign mercenaries undermines coexistence" says Cardinal Nzapalainga Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "After 125 years of evangelization, the Archdiocese of Bangui sends priests on missions. It is the sign of the vitality of our particular Church and of solidarity among the Churches", announced H ...