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  9 October 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian Forum condemns arrest of 83-year-old Jesuit human rights activist Ranchi (Agenzia Fides) - 83-year-old Jesuit Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy, who is committed to the promotion of human rights and human development, was arrested for allegedly having relationships with Maoist rebel groups ...
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  9 October 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Archbishop Báez: "Nicaragua urgently needs international solidarity and pressure" Miami (Agenzia Fides) - "I personally believe that as long as Ortega, Murillo and their repressive government are there, there is no room for fair, democratic and transparent elections in Nicaragua": said the Auxiliary B ...
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  9 October 2020
  AFRICA/MALI - The story of Fr. Maccalli is an example of the instability affecting the Sahel Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – The kidnapping of Italian missionary Father Pierluigi Macalli (Sma) began in Niger and released in Mali. The case of Fr. Pier Luigi (Gigi) Maccalli illustrates the cross-border action of Islami ...
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  9 October 2020
  EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN - Armenian Cathedral in Shushi damaged in bomb attack: Patriarch Karekin II denies rumors regarding "religious conflict" Shushi (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Cathedral of the city of Shushi, in Nagorno Karabakh, dedicated to Christ the Savior, was hit by a launch of missiles on Thursday, October 8, which caused significant damage to the r ...
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  9 October 2020
  Rome (Agenzia Fides) - FESMI for missionary October: "Here we are, send us" to help keep the mind and heart open Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian Mission Press Association, FESMI, published a message for World Missionary October 2020 which recalls that in "this year, marked by the suffering and challenges caused by the Covid-19 p ...
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  9 October 2020
  OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - World Mission Sunday 2020: "I was evangelized by the poor" Suva (Agenzia Fides) - "In my missionary life, I discoverd that I was evangelized by the poor", said Sister Torika Wong, a citizen from Fiji, who served as a missionary in the Philippines in the Archdiocese of Davao, Mi ...
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  8 October 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Caritas and student pastoral care: "Free elections under the sign of peace and democracy" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the presidential elections in Bolivia, which will be held on Sunday, October 18, the Social Pastoral/Caritas (Pasoc), in cooperation with the student Pastoral office, are appeal ...
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  8 October 2020
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - World Mission Sunday 2020: In times of the pandemic, announce Jesus in the “suburbs” San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - The National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Puerto Rico, Mgr. Daniel Fernández, Bishop of Arecibo, invites us to the celebration of World Mission Sunday (DOMUND) and cites an ...
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  8 October 2020
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - "Nobody saves themselves alone": national unity, secret in the fight against the coronavirus Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The small Asian state of East Timor is the country in the world that can boast an almost incredible toll (28 cases of coronavirus, and no deaths), "and the secret to containing the virus was the ab ...
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  8 October 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Ten years after the presentation of the UN Mapping Report, victims are still waiting for justice Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Ten years have passed since the United Nations' “Mapping” report was presented (see Fides, 7/5/2011), in which the human rights violations committed between March 1993 and June 2003 in the ...
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  8 October 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - 25 people die in attack on humanitarian convoy: UNHCR is "shocked" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - On the night of October 4 and 5, at least 25 people were killed in an attack on a humanitarian convoy in Burkina Faso. "25 people - all men - died and another was seriously injured after a ...
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  8 October 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops welcome negotiations with Israel over sea borders Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The slowness of investigations into the August 4th explosion in the port of Beirut is a strong demonstration of the failure of the Lebanese State and the inability of national institutions to de ...
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  8 October 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Paths for a "missionary" reform of the Church Brescia (Agenzia Fides) - Next Saturday, October 10th, there will be a conference entitled "Missione Oggi" (English: Mission Today) in Brescia, organized on the initiative of the Xavier Missionaries magazine, on the refo ...
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  7 October 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishop of Matagalpa: "The future of our country is at stake" Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - After Mgr. Mata had already commented on the latest bills (see Fides, 1/10/2020), Mgr. Rolando Álvarez, Bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa, also spoke during a press conference last Sunday: ...
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  7 October 2020
  AFRICA/ESWATINI - World Mission Sunday 2020: Creative ways of Evangelization in times of pandemic Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - When Pope Francis invited the Church a year ago to celebrate an Extraordinary Missionary Month, we welcomed this invitation with joy: in the Kingdom of Eswatini we decided to extend it to the wh ...