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  6 June 2018
  ASIA/THAILAND - The Director of the PMS: "Towards new elections: young people demand democracy and freedom" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "In Thailand we are preparing for elections, announced by the Prime Minister for February 2019: but people no longer believe in announcements, given the continuous postponements of the military ...
• 5 June 2018
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Appointment of National Director of the PMS, His Exc. Msgr. Michel Dubost Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 19 April 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed His Exc. Msgr. Michel Dubost, CIM, Bishop emeritus of Evry-Corbeil-Essonn ...
• 5 June 2018
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Santiago Alberto Beltran Vergara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 26 April 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Santiago Alberto Beltran Vergara, of the diocesan clergy of ...
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  5 June 2018
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "Night of prayer": peace on the Korean peninsula entrusted to the Virgin Mary Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - To entrust peace on the Korean peninsula to the Virgin Mary and put under her mantle the path of reconciliation between North and South Korea: with this spirit the Committee for the Reconciliation ...
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  5 June 2018
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishop of Escuintla: "Help the thousands of people affected by the eruption of the volcano Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "Faced with the painful loss of life, the many injured and the thousands of people affected by the recent eruption of the Volcano of Fire, in Escuintla and other departments, we express o ...
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  5 June 2018
  AFRICA - People "have hunger for the Eucharist": it is urgent to form catechists, lay people, extraordinary ministers Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "The Eucharist remains essentially the heart of the Church's missionary activity. Without it nothing can be achieved. As Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus says, in the absence of the Eucharistic Jesu ...
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  5 June 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Congolese Bishops threaten to file suit against Kinshasa mayor Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The National Bishops’ Conference of Congo, CENCO, is considering filing a lawsuit against Dolly Makambo, Mayor of Gombe, a municipality in the north of the Congolese capital, Kinshasa. The CE ...
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  5 June 2018
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Pastoral Land Commission: "scandalous increase of victims in the last year", 71 peasants killed Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, June 4, the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) presented its "Notebook of Conflicts", at the headquarters of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), in Brasilia, in which ...
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  5 June 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Cardinal Coutts: "Dialogue of life and service towards the suffering humanity to break the walls of hatred and intolerance" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Interreligious dialogue is a commitment which should involve all of us. It should be an integral part of our life, in a Muslim majority country like Pakistan. In Karachi, one of the world's meg ...
• 4 June 2018
  ASIA/JAPAN - Appointment of the Bishop of Saitama Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 June 2018 the Pope appointed as bishop of the diocese of Saitama, Japan, the Rev. Don Mario Michiaki Yamanouchi, S.D.B., currently provincial of the Salesian Society of Saint John Bosc ...
• 4 June 2018
  ASIA/JAPAN - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishops of Osaka On June 2 the Holy Father appointed as Auxiliary Bishops of the Archdiocese of Osaka, Japan: Rev. Fr. Josep Maria Abella Batlle, C.M.F., parish priest of the Cathedral of the same metropolitan see, assigning him the titu ...
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  4 June 2018
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Fuego volcano eruption: at least 25 dead and several children among the 20 injured Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - At least 25 people have died, 20 injured and 1 million and 700 thousand who live in the area are affected in some way by the Fuego volcano eruption in Guatemala, 40 km southwest of the ca ...
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  4 June 2018
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Bethlehem, a Franciscan priest attacked for defending the pilgrims Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - Franciscan priest, Father Fadi Shalufa, responsible for the "milk grotto" church, was attacked on 1 June by one of the two young men who had previously harassed a group of pilgrims in visit to ...
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  4 June 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - During Ramadan, invitation to protect "cultural and religious diversity" and Pancasila Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Leaders of different religions, gathered for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, expressed their wish to protect "cultural and religious diversity in Indonesia", the largest Muslim country in the ...
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  4 June 2018
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Christian leaders: "we want to contribute to the peaceful development of the electoral process" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders from different church bodies under the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD), called on the government of Zimbabwe to promote peace and reconciliation in the country ...