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  9 October 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - To contribute to coexistence: Archbishop of Jakarta meets the leader of Parliament Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - To contribute to social and religious coexistence and to work together - politics and religious communities - for brotherhood among the different people and components of Indonesian pluralist so ...
• 9 October 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Oriens Theological College" Interdiocesan Seminary in Shillong Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 9, 2017, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Kuriakose Poovathumkudy, of the diocesan clergy of Dibrugarh (Indi ...
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  9 October 2017
  AFRICA/NIGER - A surprise attack against US soldiers: "The presence of foreign soldiers is likely to destabilize the area", says a missionary Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not a mystery that Americans have been present in Niger for a long time not only with drones, but also with soldiers, as well as the presence of the French and perhaps soon even the Italia ...
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  9 October 2017
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Bishops: it is necessary to develop an inclusive and sustainable economy Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The “Justice and Peace” Commission of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council (ACSJC) presents the new report entitled "Everyone’s Business: Developing an inclusive and sustainable e ...
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  7 October 2017
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Libyan authorities confirm: the bodies of the 21 Coptic martyrs have been found Sirte (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, October 6, the Libyan General Prosecutor officially confirmed the finding of the bodies of the 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians who were beheaded in 2015 by jihadists linked to the Islamic ...
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  7 October 2017
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Mission is possible": Mission Festival is born Brescia (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 October Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples will preside the solemn opening Mass of the "Mission Festival" to be held in Brescia from 12 ...
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  7 October 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops invite to vote and announce a Day of Prayer on October 13 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The crisis that the Country is facing is still there. This is the context in which the elections for state Governors have been announced. This is an electoral process of constitutional rank tha ...
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  7 October 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - The "small communities", the heart of the Church's mission in Kerala Cochin (Agenzia Fides) - The "Basic ecclesial communities" are at the heart of the Church's mission today and are "the new way of being a Church": according to the Latin Church of Kerala (state in the south of India) tha ...
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  6 October 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Not even one young person must die for drugs": a year ago Father Viroche's death Tucuman (Agenzia Fides) - "Ni un pibe menos por la droga" (Not even one young person must die for drugs): this is what Mgr. Fernando Maletti, Bishop of Merlo-Moreno and representative of the National Commission for drug ...
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  6 October 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops deplore "the ingratitude" of Syrian refugees who commit crimes Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The growing involvement of refugees in the escalation of crimes committed in Lebanon is fueling intolerance among the Lebanese population towards refugees. And the crimes committed by the Syrian ...
• 6 October 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - The testimony of Msgr. Silvestro Li Jiantang: 14 years of forced labor for his faith Taiyuan (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 August, at 5:50 pm, His Exc. Msgr. Silvestro Li Jiantang, Archbishop Emeritus of Taiyuan, in Shanxi Province (Mainland China) passed away. He was almost 93 years old and died in the home, ...
• 6 October 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - Msgr. Paolo Xie Tingzhe, a passionate evangeliser and formator of future priests Urumqi (Agenzia Fides) - On August 14, at 8:25 am, at the age of 86, His Exc. Msgr. Paolo Xie Tingzhe, Bishop/Apostolic Prefect of Xinjiang-Urumqi, in Xinjiang (Mainland China), passed away in the town of Urumqi. He was ...
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  6 October 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Discrimination against religious minorities is "institutionalized" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Pakistani region of Sindh, in the south of Pakistan, issued a public competition announcement at the end of September for some jobs in the police administration. Among the p ...
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  6 October 2017
  AMERICA/ANTILLE - Still a very slow recovery after the passage of the hurricanes Port of Spain (Agenzia Fides) - The area most affected by recent Hurricane Irma regards the northern islands of the Antilles (see Fides 20/9/2017). The most affected and damaged dioceses are Saint John's-Basseterre, whic ...
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  6 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Families of the "Martyrs of Libya" ask the government for confirmation regarding the announced discovery of the bodies of their relatives Minya (Agenzia Fides) – The families of the 21 Copts beheaded in Libya in 2015 by jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) have addressed the Egyptian Foreign Ministry an urgent request to confirm the discovery of the de ...