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  11 October 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - International Day of the Girl: the Church recalls forced marriages and the religious conversion of minors Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government must make every effort to put an end to the phenomenon of forced marriages, kidnappings and religious conversion of underage girls: this is the appeal released by the Catholic Bish ...
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  9 October 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bishops: the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to journalist Maria Ressa, a sign of hope for the future Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "This is the first Nobel Prize ever awarded to a Filipino citizen. The fact that it is awarded to a woman and a brilliant journalist, Maria Ressa, distinguished for her professionalism in the cur ...
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  9 October 2021
  EUROPE/SWEDEN - Life of Faith and Mission of Chaldean Catholics in Northern Europe Götheborg (Agenzia Fides) - What does it mean to be Catholic in a Scandinavian Country, in a context with a Lutheran majority, but also of widespread atheism? And what are the missionary challenges of a "minority within ...
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  9 October 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Fidelity to mission: 13 young people newly professed in the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - To be prophets and missionaries, on the roads of the world: this is the appeal launched to the 13 young people (11 Congolese and 2 Cameroonians) who, on October 7, in the liturgical memory of O ...
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  9 October 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Evangelization and charity: the first community of the Sisters of Don Orione Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "For some years now, we have been planning to open a community of the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity in Mozambique: now this dream has come true". This is what Sister Claudia Maria Rio said ...
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  9 October 2021
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Priority to the missionary formation of children Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - On the path of evangelization in Papua New Guinea, it is important to give priority to the formation of children: this is what emerged from a workshop organized in Port Moresby by the Ponti ...
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  8 October 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Municipal elections: violence and corruption must challenge us "not only as voters but as society in general" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Municipal elections will take place in Paraguay on Sunday, October 10, with which citizens are called to renew the 261 municipal governments of the Country. According to data from the Tribunal ...
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  8 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - A park named after the Jesuit, Father Stan Swamy: Hindu extremists oppose Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Naming a park after Father Stan Swamy, the Jesuit unjustly arrested for sedition who died in hospital, in judicial custody, last July (see Fides, 6/7/2021), is the initiative of the Society of ...
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  8 October 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Aid to evicted and displaced citizens due to public construction works in Karachi Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Over 12,000 families have lost their homes, 96,000 people are homeless and more than 30,000 children have left schools, due to the demolitions carried out by the authorities along the Gujjar an ...
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  8 October 2021
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - Project in the Diocese of Rrëshen to improve the quality of life and economic inclusion of vulnerable families Rreshen (Agenzia Fides) - "It was difficult to bring people closer to the project: there was a lot of mistrust, almost no one believed that we could bring water for irrigation to the Shkors plain", says Gentian, local fo ...
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  8 October 2021
  AFRICA/eSWATINI - Bishop Ponce de León: "The way out of the crisis is a truly inclusive national dialogue" Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - "We live in a time of uncertainty and tension. Since the beginning of the crisis, which broke out at the end of last June, in our meetings with the interim Prime Minister, we have pointed out th ...
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  8 October 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Political elections, the Chaldean Patriarchate shares the appeal for the vote of Grand Ayatollah Al Sistani Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - While Iraqi citizens are preparing to go to the polls to elect the 329 members of the new Parliament, the Chaldean Patriarchate joins its voice to that of the Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, who ...
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  8 October 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Social Media and TV for animation in the month of missionary October Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Social media and TV are among the privileged tools used by the Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Nigeria for the animation of missionary October. The preparations, which began about ...
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  7 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Visiting the sick and loving the poor in the name of Jesus Goa (Agenzia Fides) - Visiting the sick, bringing comfort to the suffering and relief to the poor in the name of Jesus: this is the mission of a group of nurses from Goa who, as volunteers, go to orphanages, homes for th ...
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  7 October 2021
  AMERICA/PORTO RICO - The economic crisis threatens the collapse of electricity, for the Bishops it is about respect for the dignity of every human being San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - "Aware that everything concerning human dignity, its care, its support and its development, requires to be enlightened by the truth of faith", the Bishops of Puerto Rico denounce, as Pastors of ...