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  4 September 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Ending the Culture of Murder: Call for Peace by Religious Leaders in Western Equatoria Tombura (Agenzia Fides) - "We are horrified to learn that insecurity and acts of terror continue to increase in our State. We are all tired of this situation, we continue to live with dismay the massacre currently underw ...
• 4 September 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Biblical Month: Bishops urge the faithful to read, meditate and put into practice the Word of God Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The Word of God is a source of nourishment and spiritual growth. Its importance in our daily life obliges us to know it and to fully appreciate it. The Biblical Month, therefore, offers Cathol ...
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  3 September 2021
  AMERICA/PANAMA - The Archbishop of Panama: "We have a corrupt society and no one takes the first step to transform it" Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Panama, Mgr. José Domingo Ulloa, made an energetic appeal to Panamanians to tackle and resolve the "great problem" of corruption that afflicts the country and society, and ...
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  3 September 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Vocations to priesthood and consecrated life shine among the darkness marked by Covid Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - 78 new priests were ordained, and about 250 men and women religious professed their perpetual vows during the summer of 2021: these vocations are good news and a sign of hope for the Church of Vie ...
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  3 September 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A week of meeting and dialogue on the building of peace in the country Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, September 5 the celebration of the annual "Week for Peace" begins in Colombia, which this year has the motto "Truth that we can". The Director of the National Secretariat for Social Pa ...
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  3 September 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - "My father catechist": a mission carried out with joy, dedication and passion Nyangusu (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Ruth Bwaru Joseph, of the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, SSPC, originally from Kenya, shares the testimony of faith received from her father, Joseph, a catechist for 25 years, a ...
• 3 September 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Attack on a convoy of civilians in the east of the country by alleged members of the Islamic State Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Islamists of DAECH-DRC ambushed 14 cars and 2 large trucks on the morning of September 1 around 10 am local time, in Ofaye, on the Komanda-Eringeti road (RN4) in the Territory of Irumu". T ...
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  3 September 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Latin Patriarchate and University of Bethlehem collaborate to train catechists and fight unemployment among Palestinian youth Bethlehem (Agenzia Fides) - In the Holy Land, the pandemic crisis, among the side effects caused by Covid-19, has also resulted in a sharp rise in unemployment rates that have particularly affected young Palestinians. Fa ...
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  2 September 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Catholic Church celebrates the Time of Creation in the spirit of Laudato Sì Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Philippines lives and celebrates the "Time of Creation" with full involvement. The Filipino Bishops exhorted priests, nuns, laity, families, communities and Catholic mo ...
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  2 September 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Request for investigations into the massacre of 13 indigenous people Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "We can, without exclusion, stop, speak, correct, forgive ourselves, on the basis of the fundamental right to truth (...), establish a document that defines the fundamental rules, minimum and ...
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  2 September 2021
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - No to euthanasia, "compassion never kills": petition by Catholics and street demonstrations Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) – To reject the bill on euthanasia and assisted suicide: this is what a petition launched by the Australian Catholics is asking for and which will be presented to the Parliament of the Australi ...
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  2 September 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The government rejects the reactivation of the migrant protection protocol, which violates the rights of asylum seekers Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Government of Mexico must maintain a position that, while respectful, must be firm, clear and of absolute rejection of the intention to reactivate the 'Stay in Mexico' program": is the ...
• 2 September 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 73 school pupils kidnapped; the Bishops: "Too many kidnappings of children. We risk a traumatized generation of young people" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The abductions of school children present us with the prospects of a traumatized generation of young people". The words of the Bishops of Nigeria resound as a grave warning after the kidnapping, ...
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  2 September 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Solar panels at the University of Bethlehem and in Catholic schools, to guard the "common home" and concentrate resources in educational activities Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - While the "Time of Creation" opens again this year, a period of the year in which Christians of different confessions around the world are invited to pray and work together for the custody of ...
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  1 September 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - A priest killed in the state of Morelos Galeana (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of August 31, the lifeless body of Mexican priest José Guadalupe Popoca was found in the parish of San Nicolás de Bari, in the town of Galeana, municipality of Zacatepec, in the ...