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  30 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Following the example of the Ugandan Martyrs, let us renew our promise of putting faith in action Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - In the late morning of Saturday, 28 October, Cardinal Fernando Filoni chaired the dedication Mass of the Uganda Martyrs’ Shrine, Munyonyo (see Fides 26/10/2017). "Today we too are gathered in ...
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  28 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni in Kampala: "Catechists, determinative force in the work of evangelization" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "The role of catechists in Uganda has always been and remains a determinative force in the work of evangelization. Without your generous dedication, surely the growth of the Church would be much ...
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  28 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Witnesses of the Christian value of marriage, builders of the Church and society Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni met married couples at St. Mary’s Cathedral Church, or rather "Rubaga Cathedral", on October 27, in the context of the concluding celebrations of the Jubilee of the ...
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  28 October 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Uganda: listen to the voice of civil society to trace the future To rewrite the Constitution to extend his political life and to remain the leader of the country that he has ruled for over 30 years. The attempt of 73-year-old Yoweri Kaguta Musuveni divides Uganda: on the one hand ther ...
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  27 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni to the young people of Kampala: "The future of the Church in Uganda and Africa depends on each of you" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "Take in hand the development of your local Church and of your country. Always remember that the spiritual future, as well as other aspects of your continent and of this Nation, no longer depend ...
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  27 October 2017
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Mission "in defense of Christians" for US Vice President Mike Pence Washington (Agenzia Fides) - US Vice President Mike Pence will visit Israel and Egypt at the end of December, at the request of President Donald Trump, and his mission will also be aimed at strongly affirming that in the ...
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  27 October 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - New law to counteract and dissolve radical groups: "A step for the common good" Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia has approved a new law that authorizes the government to dissolve mass organizations that threaten Pancasila's ideology (the five principles at the basis of the nation) and the nationa ...
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  27 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni: "The Church does not need bureaucrats, but passionate missionaries" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - In the second appointment this morning in Kampala, where the celebrations of the Jubilee of the Archdiocese are about to conclude, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the E ...
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  27 October 2017
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Aid for Ong Mogadishu and Catholic Church after the maxi attack Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the bloody attack in Mogadishu by Al-Shabaab, a Somali terrorist group, which killed more than three hundred people and hundreds were injured (see Fides 16/10/2017), Perigeo O ...
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  27 October 2017
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Bishops for the elections: "Restoring politics, democracy, rule of law and hope" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – To create a country with a different future, which has dignity and without corruption: this is the wish expressed in a press release, less than one month before the 2017 General Elections, ...
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  26 October 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Christian Leaders to the Government: "Need to enforce the Supreme Court ruling to reopen cases and indemnify the Christians of Orissa" Cuttack (Agenzia Fides) – The state government must urgently enforce the Supreme Court ruling on the reopening of investigations and compensation for Christians in Orissa (or Odisha), victims of anti-Christian violence ...
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  26 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Elections and clashes; Bishops reveal: "Right to the end we tried to bring Kenyatta and Odinga to the negotiating table" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Tension increases in Kenya where today fresh Presidential election are to be held after the Supreme Court had nullified the election of the President after the August 8 poll. There were clashe ...
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  26 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni in Kampala for the 50 years of the Archdiocese Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, is in Uganda to conclude the 50th anniversary celebrations of the creation of the Archdiocese of Kampala ...
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  26 October 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Tensions on the Nineveh Plain: new appeal of the Iraqi Bishops for dialogue Telkaif (Agenzia Fides) - The "Babylonian Brigades" have attributed to the Kurdish Peshmerga troops the responsibility of military operations that in the evening and night of Tuesday, October 24, pushed the inhabitants o ...
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  26 October 2017
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - A new parish and a new hospital for the mission of the Jesuits Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The mission of the Jesuits in East Timor makes progress: as Fides learns, a historic mission of the religious has become a parish church and a new medical center has also been opened, which in part ...