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  30 May 2018
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Extraordinary Missionary Month of October 2019 Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - " October 2019 should help bring the entire People of God to a new awareness of Christian baptismal responsibility for the Church’s mission to evangelize to the ends of the earth. It was dec ...
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  30 May 2018
  AFRICA - The Jesuits: focus on governance, peace, human rights Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Political governance and human rights, sustainable development, peace, equitable sharing of natural resources, climate change and sustainable food: these are the points on which Jesuit social ce ...
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  30 May 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Alcoholism and lack of unity, serious threats to the indigenous communities São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Agenzia Fides) - Marcina Alemão Pereira is a 21-year-old indigenous girl who lives in a community in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, on the banks of the Rio Negro, called Taboca ...
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  30 May 2018
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Pastoral visit of Christian leaders: "A sign of hope for the nation" Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting between Apostolic Nuncio Paul Russell and civil authorities in Ashgabat is a sign of hope for the future: this is what Fr. Andrzej Madej, Polish priest of the Oblates of Mary Immacu ...
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  29 May 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Fear reigns in the North-West: no social life Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) - "There are no clashes in Bamenda. However, there is a lot of tension. Traders and entrepreneurs fear that their activities will be destroyed or damaged. Taxi drivers are afraid of being attacked ...
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  29 May 2018
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - National dialogue, the Bishops: "We are ready to do our part" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The General Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Zambia (ZCCB), Fr. Cleophas Lungu said that Catholic Bishops are "more than ready" to be part of the main team in the dialogue process. The st ...
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  29 May 2018
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Communication networks require an authentic conversion from everyone Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - Pauline Jaricot, founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, can be considered the pioneer of the network, because she understood, at only 19 years of age, that "one of the great ...
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  29 May 2018
  ASIA/NEPAL - More efforts are needed to defeat poverty Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The Nepalese government must do more to tackle the problem of poverty in the country: says to Agenzia Fides Sr Marisa, of the Congregation of Jesus, , commenting on the data of the Economic Su ...
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  28 May 2018
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - The Apostolic Administrator: "Few priests, but new baptisms" Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - "We trust in everyone's prayer so that the Lord can give new priests to Uzbekistan and support our mission. We are a little worried, because one of our confreres, who spent the last 21 years he ...
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  28 May 2018
  VATICAN - President of the PMS: "mission, specifically missio ad gentes, remains a permanent call for the Church today" Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - "I am very happy to start today my first general assembly with you ... As you know, I am new and I have to learn a lot from you in this task that the Holy Father has entrusted me". This is wha ...
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  28 May 2018
  VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni opens the PMS Assembly: "to evangelically renew the Church's mission in today's world" Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - "The announcement of the Extraordinary Missionary Month of October 2019 by Pope Francis, inspires me to dedicate my reflection on the Pontifical Mission Societies around this providential oppo ...
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  26 May 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "We reiterate our opposition to a possible third term of the current President" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We need to organize credible, transparent and inclusive elections for the stability of the Country", reiterated the Secretary General of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), Fr. ...
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  26 May 2018
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops before the presidential elections: "Let us vote with conscience and responsibility" Bogotá (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, Sunday, May 27, over 36 million Colombians will return to the polls to elect the President who will be in power for four years. Six candidates are vying after the current president, Ju ...
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  26 May 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - International Day of Africa: from the Africa of Fate to the Africa of Possibilities Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "Years pass, hours fly and the observations are unfortunately still the same: the deterioration of Africa, of its nations, of its unity, of its people increase considerably and inexorably", writes ...
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  26 May 2018
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Foreign debt in Africa: a sword of Damocles on millions of poor The foreign debt that Sub-Saharan African Countries have accumulated over the past few years is an unresolved issue. After the great abolitionist campaign, promoted on the occasion of the Great Jubilee of 2000, there is ...