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  20 September 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Cardinal Filoni: one becomes a Christian because he is "fascinated". The proclamation of the Gospel is not an ideological "indoctrination" Hiroshima (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation of the Gospel "is not an indoctrination, or an imposition or a forging of minds and hearts". It adheres to the Gospel not for "ideological proselytism" but because is "fascina ...
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  20 September 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Fr. Chito, released in Marawi: "the seizure was God's will" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "My seizure was God's will. A trial He wanted. I trust in him. I see my future only in Marawi: Christians and Muslims are brothers and we believe in the only, unique God": Fr. Teresito Soganub (c ...
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  19 September 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Health problems for the missionary nun kidnapped in Mali in February Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - According to Colombian National Police, Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez, a Colombian nun of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, seized in February in Karangasso, Southern ...
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  19 September 2017
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The people against corruption, the Church condemns those who promote impunity Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Guatemala lives one of the worst moments of its democratic life: almost all the country's institutions have declared themselves against Congress which has announced the Reform of the Crim ...
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  19 September 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Cardinal Filoni in Nagasaki: in mission, the essential work is carried out by Grace Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) - In Japan it is necessary to "resume missio for non-Christians". There is a need for priests, religious men and women and lay people "who put in the eyes of non-Christians the identity of Jesus ...
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  19 September 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishops: violence, murder, torture and rape of civilians are "war crimes" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Our country is not at peace. People live in fear. The civil war, which we have frequently described as having no moral justification whatsoever, continues". The dilemma of this situation has pushe ...
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  19 September 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Catholic professor: "The educational system in Pakistan is a failure" Faisalabad (FIdes Agency) - "In Pakistan we are witnessing the failure of the educational system. The death of Sharon Masih, the Christian student lynched by his classmates with the utmost indifference of the teachers’ ...
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  19 September 2017
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A common commitment: appeal of religious and political leaders for peace in Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – To sign and apply the cease-fire, negotiate a peace treaty, establish a long-lasting reconciliation era in the Korean peninsula: are the requests contained in a special peace appeal signed by 2, ...
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  19 September 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Cardinal Filoni in Nagasaki: Christ is not just a "guru" of moral life Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) - Missionaries who introduced the Gospel in Japan did not endanger their lives "just to announce Christ as an extraordinary wise man or guru of moral life, or as a promoter of social welfare". Th ...
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  18 September 2017
  EUROPE/POLAND - How to engage and involve young people in the mission Częstochowa (Agenzia Fides) - "The magnet that attracts young people towards a missionary group is the opportunity to do something good for another person, especially for a person of the same age, in missionary countrie ...
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  18 September 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian lawyer: "Sharoon Masih killed for a glass of water, like Asia Bibi" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "He was called with the nickname of 'choora', a pejorative which is used to define Pakistani Christians, identifying them with the caste of 'street cleaners' or 'untouchables'. He was beaten to d ...
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  18 September 2017
  AFRICA/TOGO - The story of a missionary: "The new leper is AIDS that also infects many children" Kolowaré (Agenzia Fides) - "We assist more than 800 people in antiretroviral therapy, of whom 50 are children. AIDS, like leprosy, creates discrimination and often the family’s rejection because it is considered a sha ...
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  18 September 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assad to young Syriac-Orthodox Christians in Syria are not hosts or "migratory birds" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Syria are "no guests or migratory birds". They "are part of the origin of the nation, and without them there is no pluralistic Syria". This is what Syrian President Bashar Assad s ...
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  18 September 2017
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishops: "Let’s go back to the 1992 Constitution to resolve the crisis" Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "Constitutional reforms are of particular importance, without which it is impossible to bring peace and social cohesion in our country", write the Bishops of Togo in the pastoral letter on the Cou ...
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  18 September 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Marawi, vicar released and mosque regained: the siege in its final stage Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "We are happy for the release of Fr. Chito. We thank the Lord and all those who in the world prayed for his release. We praise the efforts of the Filipino army who are doing their utmost to prote ...