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  16 October 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Almost 100 dead in tanker explosion Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - More than 90 people have died in the explosion of a tanker in Nigeria. The tragedy occurred around midnight on October 15 in the town of Majia, in Jigawa state, in north-central Nigeria. In additi ...
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  16 October 2024
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Easter attacks: new investigations are "a good sign of justice" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The fact that the government under the newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has confirmed its will to conduct a thorough investigation into the Easter 2019 attacks is certainly a go ...
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  16 October 2024
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A missionary from Cairo: "The days in the mission pass quickly" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "I have started learning Arabic and two days a week, early in the morning, we go from our neighborhood to the Comboni school with Patrick and Florindo," says Anselmo Fabiano, an Italian missionary ...
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  15 October 2024
  Cardinal Marengo: mission is a mystery by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo IMC Rome (Agenzia Fides) - We are pleased to publish the Prolusion made today by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, Consolata missionary and Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, on the occasion of the ...
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  15 October 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Israeli strike on Christian-majority village in Northern Lebanon Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - At least 23 people were killed yesterday, October 14, in a bomb attack on a building in the predominantly Christian village of Aitou, near Zgharta, in the far north of Lebanon, which has so far b ...
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  14 October 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - International Conference: Marco Polo and the Franciscans in the East Tolentino (Agenzia Fides) - "In the footsteps of Tommaso da Tolentino and Father Matteo Ricci" is the title of the opening session of the international conference "Travel Notes: Marco Polo and the Franciscans in the East ...
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  14 October 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Fighting continues in Khartoum: 23 civilians killed in attack on a market Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Fighting continues in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, where the Sudanese armed forces are trying to expel the militiamen of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from their positions. Civilians are par ...
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  14 October 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "Korea Mission Society" celebrates its 50th anniversary: "A community on the move" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The spirit is one of going out, of communicating the Gospel "ad gentes". Fifty years after its foundation, the "Korea Mission Society" (KMS) continues to practice this missionary spirit and reaffi ...
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  14 October 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - "Environmental Prayer Walk": peaceful rally against illegal gold mining Accra (Agenzia Fides) - On October 11, the Archdiocese of Accra invited people to the "Environmental Prayer Walk", which took place peacefully and without incidents, with the participation of thousands of people. The ral ...
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  14 October 2024
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - One month after the murder of pastoral worker Juan Antonio López: Three suspects arrested in Honduras by Laura Gomez Ruiz Tocoa (Agenzia Fides) - On September 14, Juan Antonio López (46), married and father of two daughters, coordinator of social pastoral care in the diocese of Trujillo and founding member of the P ...
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  12 October 2024
  VATICAN - Cinema and mission: Conference on "Audiovisual sources and the history of Catholic missions" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the Pio IV Hall in the Vatican, the international conference "Cinema and mission. Audiovisual sources and the history of Catholic missions" will be held on October 15. Starting at 8:30 a ...
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  12 October 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Bishop Hormat: The “domestic” and “ad gentes” mission of the Catholics of Flores. “Vocations are not our work, but God’s,” Ruteng (Agenzia Fides) - Ruteng (Agenzia Fides) - Verbites, Somaschians, Montfortians, Vocationists, Scalabrinians and Camillians, together with the Sisters of Perpetual Help, the Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual ...
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  11 October 2024
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Signing of the Second Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the Holy See and Burkina Faso on the legal status of the Catholic Church in Burkina Faso Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Today, 11 October 2024, the Second Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the Holy See and Burkina Faso on the legal status of the Catholic Church in Burkina Faso was signed in Ouagado ...
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  11 October 2024
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia leaders hold Tripartite Summit in Asmara Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - A joint tripartite committee of the Foreign Ministers of Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia will work to promote strategic cooperation in all areas. This was agreed by the presidents of the three countri ...
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  11 October 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mindanao Relgious Leaders Conference: “We are peacemakers” Davao (Agenzia Fides) - "We are peacemakers. Peace based on justice is our duty," emphasize the members of the Mindanao Religious Leaders Conference, gathered on 8 and 9 October in Davao, in the south of the Philippines, ...