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  22 May 2018
  EUROPE/ITALY - An impulse for mission and for vocations comes from the beatification of Sr. Leonella Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "From the beatification of Sister Leonella we expect great strength for mission and for vocations, because looking at her young people in the whole world can wonder about the possibility of giving ...
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  22 May 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Concern over new Ebola outbreak: mobilization of Caritas and NGOs Bikoro (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is worrying because it is urban unlike earlier ones" says Dr. Rose Mkunu at the head of a delegation of Caritas Congo visiting Mbandaka, together with the Diocesan office of medica ...
• 22 May 2018
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Mbulu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as bishop of Mbulu, Tanzania, the Rev. Anthony Lagwen, of the clergy of the same diocese, currently bursar of the same ecclesiastical circumscription. The Rev ...
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  22 May 2018
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishops: "We are doing everything possible for the love of Jesus Christ and for the love of our country" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "The peace we are looking for is not the peace of cemeteries, nor that of subjugated slaves, it is peace that is born from reconciled people. We have accepted to be mediators of the National Dia ...
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  22 May 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Ebola; the Bishops: "Do not give in to resignation, but work together to limit the epidemic" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The confirmation of a first case of Ebola in Mbandaka, an urban area, worries us deeply", writes His Exc. Mgr. Marcel Utembi Tapa, Archbishop of Kisangani and President of the National Episcop ...
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  21 May 2018
  VATICAN - Consistory for 14 new Cardinals, 3 are Archbishops in mission territories Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Speaking to pilgrims and visitors gathered in St Peter's Square on Pentecost Sunday, May 20 for the recitation of the Regina Caeli prayer, the Pope announced he would create new Cardinals a ...
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  21 May 2018
  VATICAN - Message for World Mission Day 2018: "Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel to all" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the solemnity of Pentecost the message for World Mission Sunday 2018, to be held October 21, 2018 was released, on the theme: "Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel to al ...
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  21 May 2018
  AMERICA/HAITI - Apostolic commitment of the Camillian missionaries on the island after the hurricane Ranja (Agenzia Fides) - "Since your arrival on the island you have brought great change to the life of the community: with your Gospel style of work you have accompanied people to their full recovery. This makes you diff ...
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  21 May 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Assault on Bambari; even the Church is not spared Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The population is devastated, houses burned and looted. The bodies of the victims lie on the ground", says Fr. Firmin Gbagoua, Vicar General of Bambari, the city of the Central African Republic, ...
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  21 May 2018
  ASIA/INDIA - A Jesuit: "In Karnataka, the nationalist forces have not triumphed" Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections for the Karnataka State Assembly were a crucial moment in the history of the country. Outgoing Prime Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah, of the Congress Party, carried out a wor ...
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  21 May 2018
  ASIA/IRAQ - Elections: 5 seats reserved for Christians. The Chaldean Patriarch congratulates Muqtada al Sadr Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The final results of the Iraqi parliamentary elections confirm that two of the 5 seats reserved for Christians have been won by candidates from the "Babylon Brigades" movement, they are: Aswan S ...
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  21 May 2018
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The new Cardinal Joseph Coutts, promoter of inter-religious harmony: "Ready to humbly serve the Church" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Pakistan rejoice at the decision of the Pope to appoint Archbishop Joseph Coutts, at the head of the Archdiocese of Karachi, as Cardinal. The 72-year-old will be the second Pakistan ...
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  21 May 2018
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Pan Amazonian Network: "Cardinal Barreto, bearer of hope for the Amazon" Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "The appointment of Msg. Barreto as Cardinal has a very profound meaning, of great hope and profound responsibility: all of us who are close to him, commit ourselves to supporting him in this path ...
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  18 May 2018
  VATICAN - The "revolution" of Missionary Childhood: for 175 years "children help children" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "A new style of mission is born with the Missionary Childhood Society that focuses on the grace of baptism, from which springs the missionary nature of every Christian, and also recognizes ...
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  18 May 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Humanitarian crisis in the English-speaking area of the country: Bishops exhort to dialogue Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Cameroon denounce "gruesome violence" while 160 thousand people are forced to flee to Cameroon and another 26 thousand to Nigeria. Caritas Cameroon reports "areas of conflict per ...