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  17 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Covid-19: marriages postponed until "it is safe to celebrate the Sacrament with freedom and festivity Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - " The best is to defer marriages until it is safe to celebrate the Sacrament with greater freedom and with greater festivity", said the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Cape Town, Syl ...
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  16 September 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Religious women in southern India feed two thousand people a day, affected by the economic crisis due to Covid-19 Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - An inter-congregational group of nuns in Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka, in southern India, has launched a food security program, managing to provide for the daily sustenance of 2000 poo ...
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  16 September 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "Young missionary disciples, builders of the civilization of Love": encounter of the Andean region Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Youth Pastoral sector of the Episcopal Commission for the Laity of the Episcopal Conference of Ecuador, has organized the XVI Youth Pastoral Meeting of the Andean Region, which will take place ...
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  16 September 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Towards World Mission Day: a thousand faces for mission Sydney - (Agenzia Fides) - A thousand faces for mission: with this spirit, which expresses the universality of the Church's mission and the call of all the baptized to be "sent" to proclaim and witness the Gospel, "Catho ...
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  16 September 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops in the face of the health and social crisis: "Our commitment is the well-being of Peru" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "We are experiencing a difficult period due to the Covid-19 pandemic which has caused more than 30 thousand Peruvian deaths and over 700 thousand infected", the Bishops of Peru write in their state ...
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  16 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 'Your Word is a lamp for my feet': first edition of the Bible in Pazande has been delivered Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - It is an important milestone reached, the culmination of years of hard work, perseverance in missionary work: the first edition of the Bible in the local Pazande language was presented on ...
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  16 September 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christian appointed at the top of the National Investment Authority Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Chaldean Christian Suha Daoud Elias al Najjar is the new President of the Iraqi National Investment Authority, a government body also involved in the management of resources made available by fo ...
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  16 September 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 50 dead in the gold mine collapse in Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are those who wonder why a person should work for 3 euros an hour, or harvest tomatoes for one euro per box, or like young people from Kamituga (Kivu, eastern Congo) dig makeshift mines w ...
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  15 September 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cathedral in Manila reopens, cemeteries close to commemorate the dead Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Manila, in the heart of the area of Intramuros, reopens to the public and to worship on Wednesday 16 September after six months of closure due to the ...
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  15 September 2020
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Month of September: "the Word of God at the center of our evangelization" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - With the motto "The Word of God ... which is now at work in you who believe" (1 Thes 2, 13), the Church in Uruguay, like many other nations of Latin America, celebrates the Month of the Word of ...
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  15 September 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - Two years after the kidnapping of Fr. Gigi Maccalli: "There is always, somewhere, someone who betrays friends" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "It was night when they took you away and since then two years of darkness have passed, only interrupted by a short video message on 24 March, the first and for now the only sign of life. There h ...
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  15 September 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - A priest entirely dedicated to the marginalized has been killed Como (Agenzia Fides) - "This morning Don Roberto Malgesini was murdered in Como by a homeless man with mental problems": this was announced by the diocese of Como, where the priest, 51 years old, originally from Valtelli ...
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  15 September 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new Emergency Department at the Catholic hospital in Hyderabad Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - A new Emergency Department, equipped with cutting-edge technologies, has been inaugurated at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Hyderabad, a Catholic health facility managed by the diocese, with 150 ...
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  15 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Meeting between two Bishops and President Kiir: "Let's work together for peace" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "A very productive and successful meeting". This is how His Exc. Mgr. Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, defined the meeting together with His Exc. Mgr. Stephen Amenyu, Archb ...
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  15 September 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Grand Imam of al Azhar: Islam and Christianity have never been at the root of wars Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe with certainty that Islam and Christianity have never been the origin of wars and conflicts, but rather religious faiths represent the opposite of conflicts and wars in which they are ...