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  29 September 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Churches remain closed: "We must also pay attention to the spiritual economy" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "May our desire for an earthly economy not come at the expense of the spiritual economy", said James Kakura James, Ugandan seminarian, referring to the reopening of public spaces and the permane ...
• 29 September 2021
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Appointment of the Archbishop of Malanje Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed His Exc. Mgr.Luzizila Kiala, currently Bishop of the Diocese of Sumbe, as Metropolitan Archbishop of Malanje (Angola). (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 29/9/2021) ...
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  29 September 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The cause of beatification of Fr. Luigi Bolla, a missionary among the indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Peru, has been opened Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, September 27th, the diocesan process for the beatification and canonization of Father Luigi Bolla (born 1932 in Schio, Italy, and died 2013 in Lima, Peru) was opened in the Archdiocese o ...
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  29 September 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Muslim woman sentenced to death for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - On September 27, a court of first instance (session court) in Lahore sentenced a Muslim woman to death and fined 50,000 rupees (approximately 265 euros) for violating the blasphemy law. According ...
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  29 September 2021
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Patriarch emeritus Michel Sabbah: "The future of Christians in the Middle East is not a question of numbers, but of faith" Antelias (Agenzia Fides) – The questions, and also the uncertainties about the future of Christians in the Middle East, "are not primarily a question of numbers, even if numbers are important, but rather a question of ...
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  28 September 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Message from the Bishops: do not derail the path towards peace Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We condemn unreservedly the murder that took place on August 16 of our dear Sisters of the Sacred Heart Mary Daniel Abbud and Regina Roba and their fellow travellers on the Juba-Nimule road. While ...
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  28 September 2021
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The Church resumes the celebration of masses "cum populo" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - After months of suspension of Masses in the presence of the faithful, due to the pandemic, the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur has announced that from October 9, in the diocesan territory "cum ...
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  28 September 2021
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops for the elections: "exercise the duty and the right to vote, which is an achievement of our democracy" San José (Agenzia Fides) - "In a context of concern, anguish and pain that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought to so many families in our country and which has exacerbated a number of problems in our society, we appeal to ...
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  28 September 2021
  AFRICA/TOGO - Radio Sainte Thérèse: "an oasis" to nourish one's faith in the diocese of Sokodè Sokodè (Agenzia Fides) - Since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March 2020 in Togo, with the series of restrictions imposed, barriers and prohibitions, including the closure of places of worship, the people of God have becom ...
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  28 September 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Seafarers are "ambassadors of Christ" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Filipino seafarers are part of the circle of God's friends. They defy danger and suffer loneliness for the good of their family and their country. Let us pray that they may continue to be ambass ...
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  28 September 2021
  AMERICA/CANADA - Prayer is the foundation of all effective mission animation, not only for Mission Sunday, but all year round Mississauga (Agenzia Fides) - After a two-year break due to restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Director, Fr. Alex Osei, CSSp, and the Diocesan Directors and their collaborators of the Pontifical Miss ...
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  28 September 2021
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Document on the future of Christians in the Middle East: Western "protections" or "alliances between minorities" do not help us Antelias (Agenzia Fides) - In the Middle East there are ecclesial realities that "in order to obtain assistance from some American and European Christian groups, they adopt ideas that militate against coexistence, exagge ...
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  27 September 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Violence against migrants: "We cannot allow a new epidemic, this time of hatred, racism and xenophobia" Iquique (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, September 24, the police forces evicted the former Plaza Brasil in the city of Iquique where groups of Venezuelan migrants had camped out who in recent weeks have been arriving in lar ...
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  27 September 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "It is necessary to heal the serious wounds inflicted on nature" urges Archbishop Gualberti Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to change our mentality and adopt an ecological spirituality, to stop the irrational exploitation of non-renewable natural resources, wild deforestation, forest fires, even o ...
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  27 September 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Continuing tribal conflicts force nuns to suspend formation programs Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "The nature of the tribal conflict that persists in Tombura, and of which we are witnesses, is brutal. We were forced to send home two postulants and five aspirants who were in the forma ...