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  16 March 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Official request of the Indian Bishops: postpone the date of the expected vote on Holy Thursday New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of India has written to the Electoral Commission of India, a governmental body that manages the upcoming general elections, officially asking to change one of the dates ...
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  16 March 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch: the laity and especially women are involved in roles of responsibility also in the Eastern Churches Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "Common priesthood", shared by all the baptized, animates the vocation and mission proper to the laity and in particular of women in the Church, in the diversity of talents and in the complem ...
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  16 March 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - Six months of silence for father Maccalli, missionary kidnapped: "The only free person among us" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a priest of the Society for African Missions was kidnapped six months ago (see Fides 17/9/2018). "It is an eternity for us. He was taken hostage by strangers who took ...
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  15 March 2019
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Housing for the mentally ill: new project of the Camillian religious in Flores Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "It is sad and deplorable to see the conditions in which mentally ill people live on the island of Flores", says to Agenzia Fides Father Luigi Galvani, a Camillian missionary who has been workin ...
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  15 March 2019
  VATICAN - Missionary Childhood: new role of the newsletter on children's missionary commitment Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Currently, the predominant view is that childhood is not only a preparatory moment that everyone needs in order to grow, but it is a significant period in the journey of the life of the hu ...
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  15 March 2019
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Massacre in the mosques, the local Church: "Horrible act. In society there is peaceful coexistence" Christchurch (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a horrible act, to be strongly condemned. It is something really unexpected for our quiet community in Christchurch. We are shocked, like the whole nation. We express all our solidar ...
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  15 March 2019
  AFRICA/GHANA - Collection and processing of E-Waste can create opportunities for young people Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest potential threat to social cohesion, democratic governance and national security in Ghana and in many parts of the world is youth unemployment", said His Exc. Philip Naameh, Archbish ...
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  14 March 2019
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Towards the Missionary Month: promoting the same vision of the Church that goes forth, strengthening the leadership of the laity Canelones (Agenzia Fides) - In the country with the lowest number of Catholics in Latin America (42% of the population of whom only 1% say they go to mass on Sunday), the missionary impulse is a challenge to dialogue wit ...
• 14 March 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Jean Noël Gossou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 6, 2019, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Jean Noël Gossou, of the clergy of the diocese of Yopoug ...
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  14 March 2019
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The "Project Compassion" of Caritas for world water emergency Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The spirit of Caritas is to help marginalized communities and accompany them to become architects of their future. Our 'Project Compassion' has allowed us to achieve important changes over these ...
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  14 March 2019
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - Cardinal Tomko celebrates his 95th birthday and 70 years of priesthood in his native land Košice (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jozef Tomko, Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, celebrates two significant goals in these days: his 95th birthday, he was born on 11 March 1924 in U ...
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  14 March 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Lent is a propitious moment to build a welcoming community for migrants": appeal by the Archbishop of Johannesburg Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “Oh city of Johannesburg, what kind of a mother are you? Are you not supposed to be like a mother who gathers all her children? As a hen gathers her chicks under her wings?” (Mt. 24.37) ...
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  14 March 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - The Bishops of Tamil Nadu: change the date of the elections, which coincides with Holy Thursday Madurai (Agenzia Fides) - The Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council has sought change in the poll date for the southern Indian state, scheduled on April 18. The state’s 39 parliamentary and 18 assembly seats will go to poll on ...
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  14 March 2019
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish institute of history prepares 25 volumes to refute allegations on "Armenian genocide" Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - A committee of experts from the Turkish institute of history sponsored the research work of its members in historical archives and libraries in the United States, Russia, Germany and the United ...
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  12 March 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Apostolic Nuncio visits political prisoners and listens to their concerns and hopes Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in Nicaragua, Archbishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, accompanied by Mgr. Andrea Piccioni, secretary of the Nunciature, visited the Women's Penitentiary and the Jorge Navar ...