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  24 September 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - A Nun to head Kenyan Bishops’ new national television Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A nun at the head of the project for the creation of the first national Catholic television in Kenya. Sister Agnes Lucy Lando, the director of Research and Postgraduate Studies at Kenya’s Days ...
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  24 September 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Two statues of Jesus and Mary damaged and disfigured in Andra Pradesh Mandapeta (Agenzia Fides) - Two statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary were disfigured and damaged in a Catholic parish of the archdiocese of Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh, a State of southern India. The two statues wer ...
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  24 September 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - The first church built in Turkish territory since 1923 erected in record time Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - In the year in which in Istanbul the Turkish authorities authorize the re-use for Islamic worship of the ancient Christian basilica of Hagia Sofia and of the ancient church of San Salvatore in ...
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  24 September 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The continuous desecrations force the closure of a church Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The continuous sacrileges committed in the church of St Peter in Makurdi have forced the Bishop of the Nigerian diocese, His Exc. Mons. Wilfred Anagbe, to suspend all activities in the parish. The ...
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  23 September 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Towards Mission Day: despite Covid, missionary animation has not stopped Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "This year we celebrate World Mission Sunday (DOMUND) in the midst of the Covid -19 epidemic and also during this time God accompanies us through the Pontifical Mission Societies of Ecuador. Our m ...
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  23 September 2020
  ASIA - The Bishops of Asia: live with hope in times of pandemic Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic communities scattered throughout Asia are called to "live with hope in times of pandemic": this is what is stated in a message released by the Federation of the Asian Bishops' Conferenc ...
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  23 September 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The abortion bill is contrary to morality and the Constitution" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Kenya has opposed the bill on reproductive health care 2019, presented by the senator of Nakuru, Susan Kihika. In reiterating her concerns regarding the bill on serious ...
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  23 September 2020
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops: "Inequality, poverty and unemployment, consequences of an economic model that does not place the human being at the center" San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Costa Rica is the victim of the lack of decisions aimed at a structural reform of the State, to truly reactivate economy, to contain public spending and to promote production. In recent decad ...
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  23 September 2020
  AFRICA/GUINEA - "The Church is still a victim of illegal expropriations", denounces the Archbishop of Conakry Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "We are not faced with new facts. In fact, since the 1960s, the Catholic Church has often been the victim of the illegal expropriation of its assets in many places, throughout the country", said ...
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  23 September 2020
  EUROPE/SLOVENIA - Towards Mission Sunday: the testimony of a Slovenian nun on mission in Uganda Rushooka (Agenzia Fides) - "With three of my sisters we came to Uganda almost two years ago to start a new mission among our poorest brothers and sisters, in the parish of Rushooka. We are still trying to learn the langu ...
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  23 September 2020
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Orthodox Christian Michel Abs is the new Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The new Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) is Michel Abs, 65 years old and a member of the ethics Committee for research at the “Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrou ...
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  23 September 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic universities close amid Covid-19 second wave Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The second wave of the pandemic in Asia has also hit Southeast Asia with force, obliging all Countries to run for cover, reducing, among other public activities, those in the education sector. I ...
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  22 September 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Electoral campaign under the shadow of the pandemic and war Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - While there is an exponential increase in the cases of Covid-19 and the conflict on the north-western front of the country does not cease, the electoral campaign for the legislative elections of ...
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  22 September 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Towards Mission Sunday - The National Director of the PMS: "Become messengers of peace and mercy" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "Pope Francis asks us to pray to promote the universal missionary spirit: it is necessary to give impetus to cooperation to harmonize missionary forces and live the human and intercultural experi ...
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  22 September 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Consternation of the Bishops after the latest massacres: "enough with this mechanism of death" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - After the new massacres of six young people in the rural area of the municipality of Buenos Aires (Cauca) and four other people in the municipalities of Mosquera and El Charco (Nariño), which a ...