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  25 September 2018
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - "Let us evangelize the Sixth continent, virtual networks together with young people": the commitment of the Senegalese priests Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "We share with many young people their concerns: the lack of adequate formation, unemployment that affects most of them, the fragility of the school system, the desperation that leads them to ille ...
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  25 September 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate launches the alarm: the web used for personal attacks and ecclesial controversy Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Even the Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldeans, as other Patriarchates of Eastern Churches have already done, launches the alarm regarding the abuse of internet and social media as tools to f ...
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  25 September 2018
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Emergency continues due to heavy rains, the Bishops call for solidarity with flood victims Michoacán (Agencia Fides) - At least seven people have lost their lives - four children and three adults - and eight others have disappeared after the heavy rains hit a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán (in the we ...
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  25 September 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Shots against the church: intimidating message of the narcos Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of María Reina, in the town of Rosario and the school just near the church, were the target of more than ten shots at dawn on Sunday, 23 September, around 4 am. As Fides learns, it i ...
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  24 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - Fr. Armanino: "Fr. Maccalli, a missionary in his church of the poor" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "After all, mission is nothing more than becoming hostages of the poor and the Gospel. Just like God who took Fr. Pierluigi 'hostage'": says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary of the ...
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  24 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - Insecurity and confusion over the fate of Father Maccalli Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment we do not know anything about the condition or about the possible release of Father Pierluigi Maccalli who was kidnapped on september 17. No request has been made", says a source o ...
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  24 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Release Fr. Maccalli": appeal by the Muslim leaders of Niger Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - The Muslim leaders of Niger express firm condemnation over the abduction of Fr. Pierluigi Maccalli and ask for his immediate release, as stated by an appeal relaunched by the Interreligious Commit ...
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  24 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A Nigerian Catholic priest died four days after he escaped from his abductors’ den Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A Nigerian Catholic priest died four days after he escaped from his abductors’ den. Louis Odudu, died in a hospital in Warri, in the State of Delta (southern Nigeria), on September 19. The imme ...
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  24 September 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Food assistance: the Bishops of the province of Buenos Aires meet the Governor Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Fourteen Argentine Bishops from the province of Buenos Aires met the Governor of Buenos Aires, Maria Eugenia Vidal, on September 21, at the headquarters of the provincial government, in the ...
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  24 September 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The election campaign kicks off: Widodo chooses a Muslim vice president Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - On September 23, Indonesian President Joko Widodo officially kicked off of the campaign period for next year's election in Jakarta. About 186 million voters in the world's largest Muslim-majorit ...
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  22 September 2018
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Msgr. Dal Toso: mission pours from communion Salzburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The local church and universal church are mutually and essentially linked", said Msgr. Giampietro Dal Toso, Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Presiden ...
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  22 September 2018
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission's commitment to health development in Uganda Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, women, men and children in the Bujuni community can access an ever-increasing number of effective health and education services, in an environment that also takes into account religious n ...
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  22 September 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Christian and Muslim religious leaders: dialogue and peace must prevail in the English-speaking regions Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - In Cameroon, Christians and Muslims join forces to demand that peace prevails in the English-speaking provinces. In a joint statement, the Council of Protestant Churches, the Supreme Islamic Co ...
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  22 September 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Venezuela: the Church defends freedom of information While a very harsh report by Amnesty International on violence, the right to life and public security in Venezuela is being published and as the international community intensifies pressure on President Nicolás Maduro's ...
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  22 September 2018
  VATICAN - Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China on the appointment of Bishops The Press Office of the Holy See today released the following communiqué that we faithfully report: "Within the framework of the contacts between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China that have been underwa ...