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  9 September 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A missionary: "In South Sudan there is an ethnic but above all political and power conflict" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "It is too easy to describe the conflict in South Sudan as exclusively ethnic. The struggle for power, corruption, poor management of military, political leadership, of resources and the lack of ba ...
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  9 September 2017
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Cura Brochero inspires priests today Brochero (Agenzia Fides) - The spirit, the service and the mission of Cura Brochero - the holy priest, canonized on October 16, 2016 by Pope Francis – is an inspiration for the mission of the Argentine priests today: s ...
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  9 September 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - An alliance based on faith to combat violence against children Ranchi (Agenzia Fides) - A "National action plan against violence on children" was born in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The organization is part of a network already present in several South Asian countries (Afghanista ...
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  8 September 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assad visits the Syriac Orthodox monastery of the Holy Cross in Saydnaya Saydnaya (Agenzia Fides) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad visited the temporary seat of the Syriac Orthodox monastery of the Holy Cross, under construction, accompanied by his wife Asma and other family members. He was ...
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  8 September 2017
  ASIA/MYANAMAR - The Bishop of the Rohingya Territory: "It is urgent to respect human dignity and build peace" Pyay (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation of the Rohingya today is very difficult to judge. There is no reliable news and the news that circulates differs, depending on whether it comes from the government, the Rohingya or o ...
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  8 September 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Internally displaced and famine: refugee camps packed Dolo Odo (Agenzia Fides) - As a result of the dramatic drought, the phenomenon of the displaced people of the southeast villages of Ethiopia, bordering Somalia, continues. In the so-called Somali region of the Country, w ...
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  8 September 2017
  AMERICA/CUBA - After a century, the pilgrimage to Cuba's patron saint has been suspended due to hurricane Irma Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - For a century the pilgrimage of the Cubans to Our Lady of Caridad del Cobre has never been suspended (see Fides 9/09/2016). Yesterday, for the first time, every pilgrimage to the Sanctuary was ...
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  8 September 2017
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The history of the Korean Church in the Vatican Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The history of the Catholic Church in the last 230 years is a story of salvation that testifies God's will and works": says to Agenzia Fides, Elisabeth Soo-ran Park, of the Sisters of the ...
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  8 September 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Pope Francis: The Church becomes missionary only because it follows Jesus’ attractiveness Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - What moves the church to mission "is not the enthusiasm that burns the generous heart of the missionary", it is rather the "companionship of Jesus in his Spirit. If we do not we set out with Him ...
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  7 September 2017
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Hurricane Irma hits the island of Puerto Rico Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Hurricane Irma, category 5, hits the US territory of Puerto Rico. The island has been watching its economy decline for years, has $74 billion in debt and suffers from cuts to emergency servic ...
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  7 September 2017
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite church: salary increase for private school teachers has to be funded by the State Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese government's new provisions on a salary grid and the resulting increase of salaries in the public sector risk having a devastating impact on the entire reality of Lebanese schools ma ...
• 7 September 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of the "S. Giuseppina Bakhita" Propedeutic Seminary of Ngaoundéré Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 28, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. André Pakeu of the diocesan clergy of Yagoua as Rector of "Santa Gi ...
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  7 September 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Mother Teresa's lesson: Faith as an aid in combating addictions Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - Faith is a decisive force in fighting addictions related to drugs, alcohol, gambling and many others. This is what Fr. Joseph Pereira says, a priest of the diocese of Mumbai who was blown away by ...
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  7 September 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops’ appeal: "No threats to the Supreme Court. It is important to ensure the election is held in a peaceful manner" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We, the Catholic Bishops, call on all Kenyans to uphold the independence, dignity and integrity of the Supreme Court and Constitutional institutions even when we do not agree with their decisio ...
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  7 September 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Boom of vocations to priesthood in the diocese of Manado Manado (Agenzia Fides) - Seminarians and priests in Manado, capital of the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi, in eastern Indonesia, are not lacking. As a matter of fact, they are overabundant. As Fides learns, in the ...