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  25 October 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - A nun killed; the murderer arrested: a young man with mental disorders Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Ruvadiki Plaxedes Kamundiya, a 49-year-old Catholic religious, was brutally murdered on Sunday 22 October in Mutoko, in the Province of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. The police arrested a su ...
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  25 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops of Sudan/South Sudan to Kenyans: "Choose the path of peace" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a message that we Kenyans cannot just close our eyes, ears, and hearts to": this is the reaction shared with Fides of the President of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), Bis ...
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  25 October 2017
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishop: "We mourn for two Catholic students, but Marawi will be re-built" Marawi (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we have mixed feelings. We are happy for the end of the conflict in Marawi, because a new era of hope opens up. We are mourning for the deaths of two Catholic students who were taken hosta ...
• 25 October 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Resignation of the Archbishop of Tokyo and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Tokyo, Japan, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Peter Takeo Okada. The Pope appointed His Exc. Mg ...
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  25 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Churches also involved in the campaign in favor of a second presidential term for Sisi Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egypt's presidential elections are scheduled for 2018, but Egyptian intellectuals and public figures have already begun promoting press and social media campaigns to re-elect President Abdel Fatta ...
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  24 October 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Venezuelan ad gentes missionaries leave for Mozambique Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In response to the invitation that Pope Francis constantly addresses to announce the Good News of God in all the most remote corners of the Earth, the pilgrim Church in Venezuela has just sent t ...
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  24 October 2017
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - A Jesuit: positive elections, but the path to democracy remains long Jalalabad (Agenzia Fides) - The presidential elections held on October 15 were "the first free and peaceful elections in the country" and marked a crucial milestone for the strengthening of the concept of democracy throu ...
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  24 October 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - To look at every man, woman, and every child who emigrates with confidence São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Joseph Marchetti, scalabrinian, co-founder of the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters, left Italy to go to Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century, to directly help thousands of emigrant ...
• 24 October 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of the Apostolic Administrator of Gweru Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Pope Francis has appointed His Exc. Mgr. Michael Dixon Bhasera, Bishop of Masvingo as Apostolic Administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sancate" in Gweru (Zimbabwe). (SL) (Agenzia Fi ...
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  24 October 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - A candidate from the Jewish community will likely be the next representative of non-Muslim Foundations Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The election of the representative of the non-Muslim Foundations of Turkey is scheduled for December 24, but the various members present in the decision-making bodies of the Foundations Network ...
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  24 October 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians in Orissa: evangelical beatitude and missionary impulse Cuttack (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in the Indian state of Orissa (or Odisha), while experiencing a state of suffering and discomfort, have a strong and clear awareness of being missionaries because they are baptized. A ...
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  24 October 2017
  AFRICA/NIGER - A missionary: "The challenge of Pope Francis: a border Church without borders" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The words used in the Letter from Pope Francis to Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples on the occasion of the Centenary of Pope Benedict's Miss ...
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  24 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic priest killed; tension increases on the eve of the presidential vote Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A Kenyan priest was killed: Fr. Evans Juma Oduor, who was found unconscious on Sunday evening, October 22 near a sugar cane plant near Chiga Market Center in Muhoroni, 30 km from the Convent of ...
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  23 October 2017
  VATICAN - Extraordinary Missionary Month "May we be open to the joyful newness of the Gospel" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today World Mission Day is celebrated, on the theme 'Mission at the Heart of the Church'. I urge everyone to live the joy of mission by witnessing the Gospel in the environs where each one ...
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  23 October 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Extraordinary missionary Month: today Pakistanis have the task of proclaiming the Gospel Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "In Pakistan, Christianity arrived about 150 years thanks to European and American missionaries, Franciscans, Dominicans and other religious orders. The missionaries did so much for us, they buil ...