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  4 June 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Parish priests alongside young people, while violence continues Masaya (Agenzia Fides) - "On Saturday a young man was executed, this is the right word, because he was arrested, he was helpless, but a woman police officer shot him in the chest. The young man told her: if you have the ...
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  4 June 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. - An atypical form of "genocide" is scourging the country Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "When a Central African returns home after spending a few years abroad, he realizes the abnormal and precarious situation that the Country is going through. Since 2013, so many resolutions have f ...
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  1 June 2018
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - "An essential task of the International Secretariat of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith is to ensure the fair and responsible distribution of funds collected each year by the Peopl ...
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  1 June 2018
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Fernando Domingues, MCCJ, Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle (POSPA), introduced his annual report to the Assembly of the PMS: "We are happy to acknowledg ...
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  1 June 2018
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Agenzia Fides Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - "Agenzia Fides, established in 1927, has just turned ninety and is facing a constantly changing world of information", said Fr. Fabrizio Meroni, PIME, Secretary General of the Pontifical Missi ...
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  VATICAN - The Pope: Extraordinary Missionary Month and Synod for Amazonia, opportunities for evangelization Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Synod for Amazonia and the Extraordinary Missionary Month, both of which will be celebrated in October 2019, are two opportunities for evangelization, to put into practice the call to " ...
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  1 June 2018
  VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Pontifical Missionary Union, International Center for Missionary Animation Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Fabrizio Meroni, PIME, General Secretary of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PUM), Director of the International Center for Missionary Animation (CIAM) and Director of Agenzia Fides, deliv ...
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  30 May 2018
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Youth and Mission: a Festival in Jakarta Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The young Catholics of Jakarta have begun to prepare the "Joyfest 2018", a Youth Festival which intends to reinvigorate faith and increase the missionary dimension of their Christian life, as Ge ...
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  30 May 2018
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Walk of Faith: a pilgrimage for Ugandan martyrs Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – 2018 Uganda Martyrs Day is celebrated on 3 June, an event that gathers pilgrims at the Namugongo Catholic Shrine. Since Saturday 26 May the faithful have thronged Munyonyo Martyrs Catholic Shr ...
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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 ...