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  20 November 2019
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Violence in Latin American countries: Bishops call to "pray and work for peace" Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "In response to situations of great violence and attacks on people and holy places in different countries of the Latin American and Caribbean region, we invite all the Catholic faithful and al ...
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  19 November 2019
  AFRICA/TOGO - Health activities to support the population: partnerships between missionaries and voluntary associations Kolowaré (Agenzia Fides) - The collaboration between missionaries and voluntary organizations, not necessarily of Christian inspiration, bears good fruit in Togo. This is what Silvano Galli, a priest of the Society for ...
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  19 November 2019
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Humanitarian aid after the cyclone: appeal of "Catholic Relief Services" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The populations hit by the recent cyclone in Bangladesh urgently need further humanitarian aid: this is the appeal launched to Agenzia Fides by Snigdha Chakraborty, at the head of "Catholic Relief ...
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  19 November 2019
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "One does not improvise to become martyr": the testimony of Fr. Moscoso, the first martyr of Ecuador Riobamba (Agenzia Fides) - "The virtuous life and the heroic death of Blessed Emilio Moscoso encourage each of us to bring the light of the Gospel to our contemporaries with enthusiasm, as he did. His testimony is curren ...
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  19 November 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Seminar on integral development: the State promotes social justice Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - 10 proposals emerged from the seminar on "Integral human development, Path of peace, Path to the future" which took place from 13 to 14 November, in Abidjan. The seminar is a joint initiative of ...
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  19 November 2019
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - National dialogue convened: to pacify the country, hold elections and a new electoral Court La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Episcopal Conference (CEB), representatives of the European Union and the United Nations officially convened the national dialogue table yesterday, November 18, at 2.30 pm, with thre ...
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  19 November 2019
  ASIA/SYRIA - Erdogan: churches destroyed in Syria will be rebuilt Deir ez Zor (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish government is "particularly sensitive" with respect to the condition of Christian communities in the Middle Eastern region, and with its contribution Syrian Christians will see " ...
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  19 November 2019
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - A new building for the Issyk Center, the holiday home for disabled and poor children Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - The Issyk Center, the home for disabled and poor Kyrgyz children, located on the shores of Lake Issyk-kul and managed by the religious of the Society of Jesus, will be expanded with the construc ...
• 18 November 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Bishop of Eldoret Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 16, the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Dominic Kimengich, currently Bishop of Lodwar, as Bishop of the Diocese of Eldoret (Kenya). (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 18/11/2019) ...
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  18 November 2019
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Come, Lord Jesus": Bishops’ message of hope, December 8 day of prayer for Chile Lo Canas (Agenzia Fides) - At the conclusion of the Plenary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Chile (see Fides, 13/11/2019), the Bishops published a message addressed "to the faithful and to the communities of the ...
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  18 November 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Pakistani Church inaugurates "The Year of Youth" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Pakistan inaugurates the Year of Youth: with a celebration held on November 16 in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Lahore, the Bishops of Pakistan announced the event b ...
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  18 November 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Mission support for victims of terrorism in Sri Lanka Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "I recently returned from one of the most difficult journeys of my priestly life: I visited the survivors of the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, innocent people whose lives were torn to piece ...
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  18 November 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - Prayer for the release of Fr. Pierluigi Maccalli 14 months after his abduction Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – After fourteen months since the abduction of the missionary of the SAM (Society of African Missions), Fr. Pierluigi Maccalli, which took place in Niger on 17 September 2018 (see Fides, 18/9/201 ...
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  18 November 2019
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The closing of the Extraordinary Missionary Month has opened a new page of Evangelization in Tanzania Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "The pastoral visit of the President of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the world, His Exc Mgr. Giampietro Dal Toso, is a sign that the local church of Tanzania is in communion with th ...
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  16 November 2019
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "The «portico» of the Church of Pope Francis": Cardinal Filoni at the San Damaso University Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis called the whole Church, which lived a moment of immobility, to a momentum and a renewed zeal in evangelization, taking into account the ecol ...