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  3 October 2019
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Letter of "mission sending" of the Bishops at the beginning of the Extraordinary Missionary Month Freiburg (Agenzia Fides) - "With this letter we renew the missionary mission in the name of Jesus, to respond to God's call for your life! We count on you, Christ counts on you and the whole Church is with you to walk th ...
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  3 October 2019
  ASIA/LEBANON - "Tripoli Human Fraternity Day" promoted by the PMS in Tripoli to celebrate the extraordinary missionary Month Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The first “Tripoli Human Fraternity Day” on The Future of Christian-Muslim Relations after Pope Francis’ Mission to Abu Dhabi will take place at the St. Francis Convent in Tripoli-Mina, on ...
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  3 October 2019
  AFRICA - Bishops of North Africa: "in the last year important steps have been taken in the Islamic-Christian brotherhood" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "This year was characterized by events that stimulate our Churches to work for Islamic-Christian brotherhood", write the members of the Conference of Bishops of the North Africa Region (CERNA) in t ...
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  3 October 2019
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A parish priest in Cauca killed, a battleground between old and new armed gangs Villavicencio (Agenzia Fides) - "We raise prayers to the Lord so that Father Jhony will be welcomed into the Father's house; we pray for the conversion of his murderers and we reject all forms of violence that threaten t ...
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  3 October 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - Missionary renewal of the Church in Africa, in view of the 400th anniversary of the foundation of “Propaganda Fide” Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Bringing together a number of academics to analyze the state of evangelization in Africa and propose possible new ways and missionary solutions": this was the goal of the first continental conf ...
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  2 October 2019
  VATICAN - The Pope opens the Extraordinary Missionary Month: "to motivate us to be active in doing good" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Lord calls us to make our talents bear fruit, with boldness and creativity. God will ask us if we stepped forward and took risks, even losing face. This extraordinary Missionary Month ...
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  2 October 2019
  AMERICA/PERU - In the face of the crisis, Mgr. Cabrejos calls for "political maturity for the 33 million Peruvians Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From the Vatican, where he is to participate in the Synod on the Amazon, the President of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, sent Agenzia Fides a declaration on the crisis that opened in Pe ...
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  2 October 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - A genuine and solid educational system is needed to limit the horror of violence Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Violence, sacrifices of children, suicides, increased child pregnancies, incivility, criminality, are among the many evils that undermine Ivorian society. "The Ivory Coast is getting worse in th ...
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  2 October 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Pakistani Church: the gift of the Word of God for the mission Karachi (Agenzia Fides): "We encourage the faithful, especially young people, to read the Word of God daily, at least two or three minutes each day, in order to become stronger in faith and to proclaim it to others. We h ...
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  2 October 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Let's help Fidei Donum priests" urges the National Director of the PMS Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Bonaventure Luchidio, Coordinator of Fidei Donum Programs in Kenya, and Executive Secretary for Commissions for Missions at the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), and National Dire ...
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  2 October 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - "Come and see". The Chaldean Patriarch inaugurates the Extraordinary Missionary Month in Iraq Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Extraordinary Missionary Month "October 2019" also opened in Iraq with a liturgical celebration presided over by Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako in Baghdad, in the Cathedral of St. Jos ...
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  1 October 2019
  AMERICA/HAITI - The bishops: "Violence has an origin ... No people should accept poverty" Les Cayes (Agenzia Fides) - "This is no longer the moment to proclaim that we are all guilty. That is not the truth. Nor to say that we condemn violence from wherever come; it has an origin" stressed the Episcopal Confer ...
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  1 October 2019
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Extraordinary Missionary Month: “Be missionaries, not spectators” the Bishops exhort Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We want you to rekindle your missionary spirit in order to proclaim Christ's Salvation everywhere", write the Bishops of Burundi, in the message for the Extraordinary Missionary Month which o ...
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  1 October 2019
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Cardinal Tagle: small acts of charity to reduce poverty in the country and in the world Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila wants to expand a program currently underway in the Archdiocese of Manila to all the Philippines and also abroad, which has the aim of reducing poverty and c ...
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  1 October 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The youth of Juba axis of Catholicism, missionaries in the archdiocese Juba (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the celebrations for the centenary of the South Sudanese Catholic Church, the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Juba, Mgr. Santo Loku Pio, the head of the Committee for Cent ...