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  18 July 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Church forms to responsible voting and participation, also via the web Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - During the electoral campaign for the general elections of next October, the Church in Brazil contributes as usual to the civil and democratic education of citizens through publications and aud ...
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  18 July 2018
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - We need to strengthen our faith in God to recover from corruption Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - After the denunciation of the African Union (see Fides 4/7/2018) and that of the bishops of Kenya (see Fides 7/7/2018), the President of the Episcopal Conference of Zambia (ZCCB), Mgr. George Lun ...
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  18 July 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Sister Xiskya Valladares to the international community: "Please, act quickly, before they kill us all" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "I am just a Catholic nun. Nobody has asked me to write to you. But (...) I cannot stand and watch like a dictator massacre his people while you remain silent". This is how the open letter that ...
• 18 July 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Javier Alexis Gil Henao Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 17 May 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Javier Alexis Gil Henao, of the diocesan clergy of Garzόn, as Nat ...
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  18 July 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Fadi Iskander becomes a priest, son of Syriac Orthodox priest-martyr Boulos Iskander Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – To receive priestly ordination from the hands of the same bishop who had ordained his father many years before, killed in 2006 and celebrated as a martyr by Iraqi Christians, is what happened to ...
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  18 July 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Religious extremism is a threat to development" says Fr. Devine of the Shalom Center Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are attentive to the Religionization of politics and the Politicization of religion", warned Fr. Patrick Devine (SMA), founder and president of the Shalom Center in Nairobi, Kenya, in hi ...
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  17 July 2018
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - CAM 5: aware of the challenges of our peoples Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Agenzia Fides) - "Issues related to faith but also to the life of our peoples was highlighted, and this says that our Congress was not a spiritual event, but attentive towards reality, and aware ...
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  17 July 2018
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - First perpetual professions in Dioulasso for the Pianzoline 'mission animators' Dioulasso (Agenzia Fides) - Burkina Faso, like the neighboring States of the Sahel area without natural resources, is among the poorest countries in the world. The population lives on the little agriculture that the land ...
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  17 July 2018
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Mufti of the Lebanese Republic: there is no Middle East without Christians of the East Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Middle East will no longer exist if the exodus of the Christians of the East continues to reduce the presence of those bearing the name of Christ in the Middle Eastern countries. The alarm wa ...
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  17 July 2018
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - La Rioja remembers its martyrs, the next blessed Chamical (Agenzia Fides) - The city of Chamical, in the province and diocese of La Rioja, is preparing to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of its martyrs: Bishop Enrique Angelelli, Fathers Carlos Murias and Gabriel Longuev ...
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  17 July 2018
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Bishops: "A political leadership is needed to put the people at the center of their reflections and actions" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church, whose spiritual mission is clearly indicated by Christ in the Gospel, does not intend to replace in its role and in its vocation those who know and manage Politics. It does not aspi ...
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  17 July 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "The story of the Association indicates the path for the future", says the Secretary General of AMECEA Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us think more of what we have in common and what we can do together in building a strong Church within the region", says Fr. Ferdinand Lugonzo, Secretary General of the Association of ...
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  16 July 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Joy because the opening of the Plenary Assembly of AMECEA coincided with the historic visit of the Eritrean President Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "The fact that this historic moment is happening exactly at the same time as our plenary Assembly meeting, is really surprising and indeed we are grateful to God", said His Eminence Cardinal ...
• 16 July 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Tiruchirapalli Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 14 July the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Tiruchirapalli (India), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Antony Devotta. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 16/7 ...
• 16 July 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Maumere and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 14 July the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Maumere (Indonesia), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Gerulfus Kherubim Pareira, S.V.D. The Holy Fathe ...