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  18 October 2021
  AMERICA - Church conference on Amazon receives legal personality: CELAM expresses “joy and hope” Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "With joy and hope we received great news: Pope Francis has recognized the Church Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) as a public ecclesiastical legal personality", said the Board of the Council of ...
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  18 October 2021
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - The Superior of the mission: "New creative forms of evangelizing" Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of the Catholic Church in Turkmenistan "is a very humble little flock in a land with an Islamic majority and for this reason it must keep a low profile, but this does not represent ...
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  18 October 2021
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Spiral of violence in the English-speaking regions, the Bishops: "Life does not seem to have any more value" Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) - "It is with the deepest dismay and great sorrow that we, the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda, have received the terrifying news of the brutal killing of Enondiale Tehuengia Car ...
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  18 October 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Monsignor Centellas: "it is important to work on laws that give priority to work, seeking the well-being of those most in need" Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - The Minister of the Presidency of the Bolivian government, María Nela Prada, has announced that the government has decided to withdraw the bill against the legitimization of illicit profits, to a ...
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  18 October 2021
  VATICAN - The training course "Communication is Mission" is underway, starting from Christ, "perfect communicator" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The multimedia training course entitled "Communication is Mission" was inaugurated, promoted by the Faculty of Institutional Social Communication of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cr ...
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  16 October 2021
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Bishop of Almaty: it is time to promote the role of the laity in the Church Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "In Kazakhstan as everywhere else, the Mother Church must do everything, and even what seems impossible, to meet her children whether they are baptized or not, because it is difficult for anyone ...
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  16 October 2021
  AFRICA/RWANDA - World Mission Sunday marks the start of a special jubilee Year Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - In Rwanda, the celebration of World Mission Sunday (October 24, 2021) will also mark the opening of a special Jubilee Year which, in full harmony and communion with the Holy See and the universal ...
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  16 October 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Managua's "Justice and Peace" denounces the "manipulation, politicization and management" of the pandemic Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "We share with all the people the pain and sorrow caused by the high rate of infections and deaths caused by the pandemic", while "we thank all the countries and international organizations that ...
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  16 October 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Bishop of Lira to priests: "Always stay focused and firm to overcome challenges" Lira (Agenzia Fides) - "The vocation to serve as a priest is a commitment that must be embraced with love and perseverance in the midst of challenges". This is what the Bishop of the diocese of Lira, Mgr. Sanctus Lino Wa ...
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  16 October 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Government continues militarization and repression of migrants, resulting in human rights violations Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - "We make a respectful but energetic appeal to the government of Mexico to abandon the repression against migrants and respect its constitutional mandate to make the human rights of all ef ...
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  16 October 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Beirut massacre, Shiites accuse the militiamen of the Lebanese Forces. Father Zgheib: some seek to rekindle religious clashes Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanon crisis is tinged with blood and rekindles in the collective unconscious of many Lebanese the nightmares never erased from the years of the civil war. After the death of seven Shiite d ...
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  15 October 2021
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Bishops urgent appeal to vote: "We need to look to the future with hope" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - We ask the people "to overcome the feelings of indifference, apathy and skepticism that have caused been by our poor government system and its institutions, which result in abstention", read ...
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  15 October 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Rohingya Christians: Assassination of leader Mohib Ullah must be seriously investigated Cox's Bazar (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply saddened to see that our leader of the Rohingya community Mohib Ullah, founder of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH) was killed by the self-proclai ...
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  15 October 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - Fr. Kamemba: "We are following the malaria vaccination campaign with great interest" Kisumu (Agenzia Fides) - "In view of the many health facilities that are under the auspices of the Catholic Church, especially in malaria-prone areas, the new vaccine against this endemic disease will also be of great in ...
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  15 October 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Reconciliation with Boko Haram: for the Church a step in the right direction Maiduguri (Agenzia Fides) - It is called "sulhu" and in Arabic means "reconciliation". This is the secret program by which the Nigerian central government intends to convince the leaders of Boko Haram, the famous jihadis ...