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  23 October 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Giving one's life so as not to abandon the elderly: the missionary witness of the religious who died of Covid Oruro (Agenzia Fides) - Three nuns of the Congregation of the Hermanitas de los Ancianos Desamparados (Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly, HAD), died in Bolivia at the end of September due to Covid-19, infected whil ...
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  23 October 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Towards Mission Sunday: promoting the mission of the Church through the witness of young people Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "If we want to tell what we have seen and heard, who better than young people to help us do it? Many of them have had the good fortune to share some time with the missionaries and want to share w ...
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  23 October 2021
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Fire at the headquarters of the Catholic Secretariat of the Bishops' Conference: "I ask all of you to pray for us", says the National Director of the country's Pontifical Societies Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday, October 19, around 10.30 in the morning, a fire broke out in the National Catholic Secretariat of the Bishops' Conference of Liberia (CABICOL). This is how the General Secretary, ...
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  23 October 2021
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Social crisis, a coup is feared: for the Bishop of El Obeid, the "future is uncertain" El Obeid (Agenzia Fides) - "Life in Sudan is very hard at the moment, we miraculously survive. Everything is very expensive, transport, food and the people have no bread. This situation is intolerable for the population ...
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  22 October 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The military occupies a Baptist church: new episodes of attacks on Christians Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The military in Myanmar devastated a Baptist church after attacking the village of Tlang Rua in the diocese of Hakha, in the Burmese state of Chin, in the northwestern area of Myanmar, and encampe ...
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  22 October 2021
  EUROPE/POLAND - Towards the Missionary Synod of children Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The entire Catholic world has begun the synodal journey responding to the invitation of the Holy Father Francis. Following the path of the universal Church, the Pontifical Society of the Holy Chi ...
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  22 October 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - "Everyone is called to mission" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "All the baptized are called to mission. To proclaim the Gospel and bear witness to the word of God. The missionary month is a special time to invite us to reflect on the call of the Lord: the them ...
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  22 October 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A mission at the service of young women Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It was the invitation of the Virgin Mary "Go, O my Handmaids", to push the Congregation of the Franciscan Handmaids of Mary, an Italian religious institute, born in Tuscany, to go to distan ...
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  22 October 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - “United in Christ”. Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako pays a visit to Mar Awa III, the new Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The condition of the indigenous Christian communities in the delicate historical phase crossed by Iraq and the future that awaits them in the lands of their millenary roots were at the center of t ...
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  22 October 2021
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Interventions against child malnutrition and for the care of pregnant women Muyanza (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the end of the project for nutritional and health support for women and children in Muyanza, in the Rulindo district, concluded in 2019, Omar Fiordalisio, cooperating representat ...
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  21 October 2021
  EUROPE/POLAND - On the eve of Mission Sunday, the Pontifical Mission Societies of Poland inaugurate their new website Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of World Mission Sunday, October 24, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Poland have completely renewed their website. "The new website of the Pontifical Mission Societies was de ...
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  21 October 2021
  VATICAN - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS - 2021 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Day, which this year celebrates its 95th anniversary on Sunday, October 24, 2021, Fides News Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panora ...
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  21 October 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Preserving and increasing faith and traditions: the bishops inaugurate the works in view of the synod Kiyinda-Mityana (Agenzia Fides) - "In this synod on synodality Pope Francis has invited all of us bishops to be together as Christians and share the Gospel", said Msgr. Anthony Zziwa, bishop of the diocese of Kiyinda-Mit ...
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  21 October 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishopric of Talca ransacked and burned down: "violence does not solve Chile's problems" Talca (Agenzia Fides) - On the night of October 18, unknown persons ransacked and set fire to the premises of the Bishopric of the Diocese of Talca, which housed the Vicariate of Youth Ministry, the Vicariate of Social P ...
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  21 October 2021
  VATICAN - Archbishop Dal Toso: the missionary enthusiasm of a young woman, Pauline Jaricot, an example for today Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A reflection on the figure of Pauline Jaricot, the foundress of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, whose beatification in 2022 will take place within the framework of important a ...