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  29 September 2020
  AMERICA/ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES - First mission opened in Belle Vue: the work of the Redemptorists celebrates its first year Kingstown (Agenzia Fides) - About a year ago, the Redemptorist missionaries accepted the task of opening a mission in the south of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), a nation in the southern part of the Caribbean, for ...
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  29 September 2020
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - A "Statute" for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - An easily understandable and uniform instrument for regulating the "internal affairs" of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, is intended to bring the administration of the various institution ...
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  29 September 2020
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Cardinal Maradiaga: politicians must fulfil what they promise in the electoral campaign Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "A politician is not applauded for his good intentions or for his promises in time of elections, but when he fulfils what he said": this is what Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, ...
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  28 September 2020
  EUROPE/BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA - Towards World Mission Day - Let's try to be the messengers of the missions and their best ambassadors Sarajevo (Agenzia Fides) - "As Pope Francis highlighted in his message for Mission Sunday 2020, I would like first of all to thank the Creator for the gift of the Extraordinary Missionary Month of October 2019, which the ...
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  28 September 2020
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - The Catholic community on the front line to limit the spread of Covid-19 Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - With a project that will involve 6 thousand inhabitants of the town of Qubodiyon and 12 thousand people - including inmates and prison guards - in the penitentiary of the same district, the Taj ...
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  28 September 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Year of Youth in Pakistan: the Church presents the translation of the Bible in Urdu of the "Youcat" youth Multan (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we are happy to have put the Bible in the hands of our young people; I hope that this gift will help our young people to draw closer, in a relationship with Jesus Christ, who is the living ...
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  28 September 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - "Hate speech" in the Turkish press is rampant. Greeks, Armenians and Syrians targeted Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Also in 2019 the so-called "hate speech", speeches that express denigration and incitement to contempt towards individuals and human groups identified on a national, ethnic or religious basis, ...
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  28 September 2020
  AFRICA/DRC - Episcopal ordination of Bishop Félicien Ntambue, Bishop of Kabinda Kabinda (Agenzia Fides) - "The Episcopate is in fact the name of a service and not of an honor, because it is up to the Bishop to serve and not dominate, according to the command of the Master:" let the greatest among yo ...
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  28 September 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Migrants: a reality of suffering for many Venezuelans Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 106th World Day of Migrants and Refugees celebrated yesterday, Sunday 27 September, Red Clamor published a message addressed to "the holy people of God who are pilgrims in ...
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  28 September 2020
  AFRICA/ESWATINI - The solidarity of Catholic women towards the refugees welcomed in the camp of Malindza Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - Your Excellency, Most Reverend Jose Ponce de Leon, Bishop of Manzini; Fr. Mabuza under whose jurisdiction this refugee camp falls, we thank you for guiding us in this difficult time in history, ...
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  26 September 2020
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Towards Mission Sunday - The Bishop of Bossangoa: "Keep the lamp of hope burning" Bossangoa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church is fully inserted in the general context of the socio-political life in the Central African Republic. To date, it suffers from prevailing insecurity and has paid a heavy p ...
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  26 September 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Church in prayer for Migrant Day: "The pandemic must not distract us from the suffering of those who flee" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The understandable focus on the COVID-19 pandemic must not distract people from another ongoing crisis. Migration is a major challenge for much of today’s world and a priority for the Catholic ...
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  26 September 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Migrant Day: "To welcome today as if we were to welcome Christ as a refugee" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In the flight to Egypt, Jesus experienced being a refugee. In the eyes of Mary and Joseph we see the same worried and fearful gazes of today's refugees. In Christ, however, we see the same conditi ...
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  26 September 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Being a missionary in Kibera, one of the poorest suburbs in the world; the story of the National Director of the PMS to Fides Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Priests in one of the poorest suburbs in the world: the slum in Kibera in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where Fr. Bonaventure Luchidio, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Ke ...
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  26 September 2020
  AMERICA - The Church is close to migrants with prayer and with projects of reception and support San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) - "On 27 September we celebrate the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. The Pope is sensitive to the migratory reality which makes people more vulnerable to human trafficking, hunger, violence a ...