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• 21 September 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Apostolic Vicariate of Bomadi erected to Diocese and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, the Holy Father erected the Apostolic Vicariate of Bomadi (Nigeria) to Diocese, with the same denomination and territorial configuration, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan se ...
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  21 September 2017
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "Arms embargo on the Burmese military to end its ethnic cleansing campaign against Rohingya Muslims" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) – It is urgent to take immediate action to stop the Burma Armys campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people, including an arms embargo against Myanmar: this is what Christian Solidar ...
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  20 September 2017
  AMERICA - Child labor: 152 million victims, the Church asks to address the root problem New York (Agenzia Fides) - The new research carried out jointly by the International Labor Organization (OIT in Spanish) and by the Walk Free Fundation, in collaboration with the World Organization for Migration (WOM), r ...
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  20 September 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Massacre of Burundian refugees in the east: 34 dead and about a hundred injured Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 34 Burundian refugees were killed by security forces on September 16 in the refugee camp near the village of Kamanyola in the Plain of Ruzizi, South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic ...
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  20 September 2017
  AMERICA/ANTILLE - Critical situation and huge damage due to hurricane Irma: Bishops close to the population Port of Spain (Agenzia Fides) – To ascertain the damage caused by hurricanes, comfort the victims, and organize relief: is what the Catholic communities in the Antilles are doing. "Among the recent hurricanes that cont ...
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  20 September 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Cardinal Filoni: Hiroshima is the place where Christ renewed his sacrifice in the twentieth century Hiroshima (Agenzia Fides) - Hiroshima "is the place where Christ renewed his sacrifice in the twentieth century". And even for the Catholic Church, Hiroshima "today means a city of peace, in which God has not forgotten m ...
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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 ...