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  16 October 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - A young priest ordained five months ago found dead Caratinga (Agenzia Fides) - "The Diocese of Caratinga informs with great regret the death of Fr. Adriano da Silva Barros, parish vicar of São Simão parish, in Simonésia, MG. Fr. Adriano had disappeared in the early af ...
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  16 October 2020
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Catholic schools: tools for evangelization and human development, in partnership with the government Kuching (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic educational institutes in Malaysia are authentic and precious means of evangelization, human development and personal growth: this is what was stated by Archbishop Simon Peter Poh Hoon ...
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  16 October 2020
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The National Director of the PMS: "It is important to make the link between charity and evangelization known" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "There is great joy and enthusiasm in all diocesan Missions Directions for missionary October. This is a great opportunity to invite all the baptized to become aware of their vocation and th ...
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  16 October 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Churches present their proposal concerning the bill on the family to the Egyptian government Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives in charge of the Churches and ecclesial communities present in Egypt have presented to the Egyptian political authorities a unitary proposal concerning the bill on personal sta ...
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  16 October 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Archbishop Kouadio launches an appeal for evangelization, on the eve of Mission Sunday Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church exists to evangelize and this mission is of a Divine nature; By virtue of this precept, the whole Church in all its components, priests, men and women religious and lay faithful, are ...
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  16 October 2020
  VATICAN - World Mission Day: mission challenges every baptized person, called to give a concrete answer Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of World Mission Day "is a source of joy for the universal Church, even if within the local Churches it will be celebrated in a different way this year, due to the particula ...
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  15 October 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - A long list of deaths and violence: proliferation of weapons, impunity and corruption among the causes Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Violence does not stop in Haiti, which in recent weeks has been causing a wave of deaths. On Monday, October 12, Eric Elias Diogène, Senator Youri Latortue’s bodyguard, was shot dead i ...
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  15 October 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - In the wake of the Extraordinary Missionary Month: "Baptized and Sent" to become "Weavers of Fraternity" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "This year's missionary October follows in the wake of the Extraordinary Missionary Month that we celebrated in 2019. The theme 'Baptized and Sent', which aimed to rediscover the universality of th ...
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  15 October 2020
  AFRICA/MALI - Towards Mission Sunday: "For a peaceful Mali, here I am, send me Lord" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We have drawn from the theme of World Mission Day a theme adapted to the current situation in Mali and which will remain valid not only for the missionary month of October 2020 but also for all ...
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  15 October 2020
  ASIA/THAILAND - Demonstration of "young people" for democracy and the limitation of the powers of the Crown Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The renewal of the state of emergency in Bangkok, which bans public meetings of more than 5 people and the publication of "illegal messages" on social media, is the government's response to the ...
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  15 October 2020
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Mobilization of Catholic communities in favor of populations affected by floods in central Vietnam Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic Parishes and communities have mobilized to help people affected by the recent floods in central Vietnam, where due to heavy rains and floods, tens of thousands of residents have had to le ...
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  15 October 2020
  AFRICA/MALI - "Sister Cecilia is alive, but in need of care. Everything must be done to free her", says former French hostage who spent her captivity with her Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez, Colombian missionary kidnapped in Mali on February 7, 2017, is alive but needs care. This is what was reported by Sophie Petronin, released in the company of other ...
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  15 October 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - The reorganization of REPAM continues: Cardinal Barreto new President Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Pedro Barreto takes over the Presidency of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), succeeding Cardinal Claudio Hummes, in this important service. Cardinal Barreto, Archbishop of Hu ...
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  15 October 2020
  EUROPE/ARMENIA - Armenian Patriarch Karekin II calls for decisive intervention by the international community in Nagorno-Karabakh Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) - The Azerbaijani military operations in the Nagorno Karabakh region, "ignore the ceasefire agreement", and confirm the failure of the negotiations carried out so far. In the face of this scenario ...
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  15 October 2020
  AFRICA - Father Maccalli free: "I have no other offer than the offer of my life" Madignano (Agenzia Fides) - The desert of the kidnapping "was a time of great silence, of purification, of returning to the origins and the essential. An opportunity to review the film of my life. Every day, especially ...