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  8 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - The suffering of the poor and the transition in Niamey Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "From July 26 until today, the first ten days of September, here in Niger an unannounced and well-defined regime transition is in force". Father Mauro Armanino, missionary of the Society of Afri ...
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  7 September 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A parliamentary commission to bring truth and justice to the victims of the Easter attacks, while they suffer from the economic crisis Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The victims of the 2019 attacks have the right to truth and justice. This is a call that we cannot abandon and in which we involve civil authorities and international institutions", says Father ...
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  7 September 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Conflicts continue in the Tigray region: demonstrations and arrests on the eve of the Ethiopian New Year Mekele (Agenzia Fides) - Some members of the opposition were arrested in Tigray on the eve of a demonstration scheduled for today, 7 September 2023, in Mekele, against the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF), the rulin ...
• 7 September 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - "Beware of individuals who pretend to be bishops and priests from West Africa" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church has warned its followers in various dioceses within the Kampala province on the presence of individuals falsely representing themselves as Bishops and a priest from West Afri ...
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  7 September 2023
  VATICAN - Cross, rosary and prayer book of Ukrainian Redemptorists imprisoned in Russia donated to the Pope Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A missionary cross, a prayer book and a rosary. These are the objects that Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk gave to Pope Francis at the end of the Pope's meeting with the Synod of Bisho ...
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  6 September 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: The Church of Mongolia is in the heart of God Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I had the grace of meeting, in Mongolia, a humble Church, and a joyful Church, which is in the heart of God", Pope Francis expressed his gratitude for the experiences and encounters he had during ...
• 6 September 2023
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Drug traffickers ship cocaine in banana containers Quito (Agenzia Fides) - More than 9.5 tons of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas from Ecuador were seized last week by the Spanish authorities. This is proof of the collaboration of drug traffickers in one of the co ...
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  6 September 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - After wave of violence in Jaranwala: First chapel reopened for services Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "I have resumed the daily morning Mass in the Catholic Chapel of St. John, which had been burned down during the violence of August 16. We have also resumed the celebration of the other sacrament ...
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  6 September 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Dario Dozio: Do you have to go far to be a missionary? Feriole (Agenzia Fides) - "I spent thirty years in the Ivory Coast as a missionary. The first fifteen years in the diocese of Bondoukou, in a rural area, with very few Christians. I did not even have a church: I celebrat ...
• 6 September 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Eucharistic Congress and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the local Church in Sudan and the Hierarchy of South Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We have agreed to celebrate the Eucharistic Congress at the same time as the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the local Church in Sudan and of the Hierarchy of Southern Sudan", announced B ...
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  5 September 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - Archbishop Nappa to newly appointed Bishops: You are actors in continuing missionary work Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We are working together "to better show the universal face of the Church", said Archbishop Emilio Nappa in his address to the one hundred and eleven newly appointed bishops from the mission areas ...
• 5 September 2023
  AFRICA/GABON - After coup: General Olingui sworn in as interim President Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm. The population seems to be happy about the change and has high hopes for the new institutions that have made many promises and arouse many expectations. We will see if ...
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  5 September 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Beatification process for two missionaries murdered in 1985: diocesan phase completed Zobuè (Agenzia Fides) - "The Servants of God, Father João de Deus Kamtedza and Father Silvio Alves Moreira, were good pastors, they suffered with their people, they always sought peace and reconciliation. They presente ...
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  5 September 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - National Teachers' Day inspired by Mother Teresa of Calcutta New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In Muzaffarnagar, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a school teacher slapped a Muslim child in her class and asked the other children in the class to do the same. In Delhi, a 14-year-old b ...
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  4 September 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Pope Francis inaugurates the 'House of Mercy': works of charity "should not turn into businesses" Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - A journalist, seeing Mother Teresa of Calcutta bent over the foul-smelling sores of a sick person, once told her: "What you do is beautiful, but, personally, I wouldn’t do it even for a m ...