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  29 November 2019
  VATICAN - Congress at Urbaniana University closes: mission in continental contexts, challenges and hopes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Ample space in the works of the International Congress "From Maximum illud to Evangelii gaudium", "on the urgency of the missionary transformation of the Church" (see Fides, 26/11/2019), wh ...
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  29 November 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Africa consecrated to the Merciful Heart of Jesus at the end of the 4th Congress on Divine Mercy Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "We implore your Mercy so that all the inhabitants of the continent may live as brothers and sisters who love each other". With this prayer, His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Arc ...
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  28 November 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Five innocent Christians released in jail in Orissa released on bail New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court of India has decided to release on bail five Christians sentenced to life imprisonment, who have been in prison for 11 years, charged with the murder of the Hindu swami Laxam ...
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  28 November 2019
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Passion and zeal at the service of patients: the commitment of the Catholic community of Chipata Lumezi (Agenzia Fides) - A nursing school in the district of Lumezi was recently inaugurated. The initiative is part of the Diocesan Strategic Plan 2017-2021 of the Catholic community of Chipata which, in the context of ...
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  28 November 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - This year alone 9 priests kidnapped in the State of Enugu Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Malachy Asadu, a priest from the Diocese of Nsukka, in the State of Enugu, in southern Nigeria was released two days after his abduction. This was confirmed by the Police yesterday, November 2 ...
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  28 November 2019
  ASIA/CHINA - Missionaries commemorated in the month of November to relaunch mission Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) - Celebrating, thanking and commemorating the missionaries who left their homeland to dedicate themselves to mission in China, to the point of shedding their blood, is a custom and tradition for t ...
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  28 November 2019
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Marian Year begins on December 8, in which the 500 years of the first Argentine Mass will be celebrated Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - On the feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, November 27, the Argentine Bishops officially announced the opening of the National Marian Year, next December 8, the solemnity of the Imma ...
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  28 November 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - Maronite Archbishop of Damascus: the crisis of Lebanese banks also overwhelms Syrians Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis in the economy and the Lebanese banking system spreads its devastating effects even among the already tormented Syrian population, particularly affecting the many families of Syria t ...
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  28 November 2019
  VATICAN - Conference at Urbaniana University: a Synodal Church on a mission on new world scenarios Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The International Conference "From Maximum illud to Evangelii Gaudium", "on the urgency of the Church's missionary transformation" (see Fides, 26/11/2019) continue at a fast pace at the Pon ...
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  27 November 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops: "For the good of our country: dialogue, reconciliation and integral development" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Colombia, "for the good of our country", call for dialogue, reconciliation and integral development, in order to promote extraordinary days of prayer and intercession in parishes ...
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  27 November 2019
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: I love China, I would like to go to Beijing Rome (Agenzia Fides) “I would like to go to Beijing. I love China". Pope Francis responded to many questions posed to him by the journalists during the flight bringing him back to Rome from Japan, at the end of his apo ...
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  27 November 2019
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "Let us remain united as one people": referendum on Bougainville Bougainville (Agenzia Fides) - After twenty years of bloody civil war, which claimed 15 thousand victims, the referendum for the independence of the island of Bougainville from Papua New Guinea was launched. The referend ...
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  27 November 2019
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishops: "May the next elections be peaceful, free and fair" Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "At a certain point in the history of our nation, voices were raised to reproach the Catholic Church for maintaining a complicit silence in certain socio-political situations. Today it may seem th ...
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  27 November 2019
  AMERICA - Bishops of Central America gathered for the SEDAC Assembly San José (Agenzia Fides) - "It is up to the Bishops to mark the way and show with their attitudes how synodality is lived", recalled Cardinal José Luis Lacunza, O.A.R. Bishop of the Diocese of David, in Panama, to the ...
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  27 November 2019
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Malaysia and the Holy See: together for peaceful coexistence Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy See and Malaysia can work together for peaceful coexistence": said Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, greeting outgoing Vatican ambassador to Malaysia, Archbisho ...