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  13 July 2018
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Redemptorists: "It is urgent to combat violence and impunity" Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - "It is urgent to wake up and fight the culture of impunity and violence in the country": this is the appeal launched by the Redemptorists of the Philippines, on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary ...
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  13 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishop Silva at CAM 5: "We have to move from an evangelization centered on argumentation to an image-centered one" Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) – There is a climate of commitment and hope at the 5th American Missionary Congress of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) entitled "America in mission, the Gospel is joy". The ref ...
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  13 July 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Bishops' denunciation: "Who benefits from killing men of dialogue like Don Firmin? Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Who benefits from the violence against the Church?" this is what the Bishops of the Central African Republic officially ask in a statement in which they denounce the killing, on June 29, of Mgr. ...
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  12 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Cardinal Filoni at the inauguration of CAM 5: “solution efficiency is not the right logic to follow” Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) – “This Congress re-connects with the one celebrated in Maracaibo and with previous Congresses representing significant steps in missionary commitment of this great Continent ...
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  12 July 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Over 50,000 signatures demanding the release of the 7 innocent Christians in Orissa Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - As the tenth anniversary of the attack on Christians which occurred in August 2008 in the Indian state of Orissa is approaching, an online signature campaign demanding the release of seven i ...
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  12 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Archbishop Dal Toso at CAM 5: “announcing Christ who died and is risen at the heart of mission” Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) – “I am most grateful to be here this morning among you to open this American Mission Congress. Let us allow the motto which convokes us ‘America in mission: the Gospel is j ...
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  12 July 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "No to provocations that come from the self-proclaimed "League for the defense of the Church", warn the Bishops Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are outraged by the statement published by an organization called "The League for the defense of the Church in Central Africa", in which one wants to put in place projects that are contrary t ...
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  12 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - President of the Pontifical Mission Societies encounters the Bishops present at CAM 5 Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) – In the afternoon of 11 July, archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, secretary adjunct of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and President of the Pontifical Mis ...
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  11 July 2018
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: action must be taken to stop the ecological holocaust Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in a critical moment of human history. Faith without action is an empty faith, the Apostle James warns. All our pious convictions require real actions. Martin Luther King used to say: 'So ...
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  11 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Cardinal Filoni opens CAM 5: "Missionary work has a heart, a center, a name: Jesus" Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - "What is missionary work?". Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Special Envoy of the Holy Father Francis at the celebrations ...
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  11 July 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishops: "We will not abandon the Dialogue" despite the aggression and hostility of the government Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "We Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua, decided today (10 July), to continue to provide the service that the government has asked us, as mediators and witnesses of the national Dia ...
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  11 July 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Sectarian assaults after the arrest of a Copt accused of offenses against the Prophet Mohammad Minya (Agenzia Fides) - A young Coptic Egyptian was arrested in the village of Menbal, in the province of Minya, on charges of having shared some videos considered offensive against Prophet Mohammad on social media. The ...
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  11 July 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Lay Catholics: "Concrete measures for credible elections, otherwise actions of protest" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the peace and stability of the country as well as that of the region are being threatened, on 9 August the Lay Coordination Committee will launch an appeal to the general mobilization of ...
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  11 July 2018
  ASIA/THAILAND - Towards the 350th anniversary of the Apostolic Vicariate of Siam Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Almost 350 years have passed since the first Catholic mission in Siam began: to commemorate the imminent anniversary of the Apostolic Vicariate of Siam (Mission of Siam: 1669-2019), the Bishops' ...
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  10 July 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes, bishops and priests attacked inside the church: "Never seen anything like this in Nicaragua" Managua (Agenzia Fides) – During the weekend, a lot of blood was shed in the area of Carazo, with an unknown number of deaths, 9 or maybe more, due to the result of the increasingly violent repression of the government ...