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• 6 October 2017
  ASIA/CHINA - Msgr. Paolo Xie Tingzhe, a passionate evangeliser and formator of future priests Urumqi (Agenzia Fides) - On August 14, at 8:25 am, at the age of 86, His Exc. Msgr. Paolo Xie Tingzhe, Bishop/Apostolic Prefect of Xinjiang-Urumqi, in Xinjiang (Mainland China), passed away in the town of Urumqi. He was ...
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  6 October 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Discrimination against religious minorities is "institutionalized" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Pakistani region of Sindh, in the south of Pakistan, issued a public competition announcement at the end of September for some jobs in the police administration. Among the p ...
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  6 October 2017
  AMERICA/ANTILLE - Still a very slow recovery after the passage of the hurricanes Port of Spain (Agenzia Fides) - The area most affected by recent Hurricane Irma regards the northern islands of the Antilles (see Fides 20/9/2017). The most affected and damaged dioceses are Saint John's-Basseterre, whic ...
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  6 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Families of the "Martyrs of Libya" ask the government for confirmation regarding the announced discovery of the bodies of their relatives Minya (Agenzia Fides) – The families of the 21 Copts beheaded in Libya in 2015 by jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) have addressed the Egyptian Foreign Ministry an urgent request to confirm the discovery of the de ...
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  6 October 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Vice President poisoned. Tension increases. The Bishops: "No to violence" Harare (Agenzia Fides) – Tension increases in Zimbabwe after the announcement that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was poisoned. Mnangagwa fell ill in August and was hospitalized in South Africa, where doctors said h ...
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  5 October 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The possibility of becoming a candidate again: "A serious damage to democracy" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "A serious damage to democracy" is how the Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB) defined the decision of the Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal to accept the request of the Movement for Socialism ...
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  5 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Francis greets the Egyptian delegation who went to the Vatican to promote the "The Path of the Holy Family" Rome (Agenzia Fides) – During the General Audience on Wednesday, October 4, Pope Francis welcomed the large Egyptian delegation who are in Rome to promote pilgrimages along the "The Path of Holy Family", the itinerary ...
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  5 October 2017
  ASIA/TAIWAN - The life of seafarers and fishermen between forced labor and human trafficking Kaohsiung City (Fides Service) - The XXIV World Congress of the Apostleship of the Sea (AoS), on the theme: 'Caught in the net' is being held in Kaohsiung City until October 7. The chosen theme expresses the concern of ...
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  5 October 2017
  ASIA/JAPAN - Cardinal Filoni: The future of the mission is "the Gospel from Japanese to Japanese" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The future of the Christian faith in Japan is linked to the proclamation of the Gospel from Japanese to Japanese. It is important that the Japanese, 500 years after the first evangelizatio ...
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  5 October 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Young people in view of the Synod, the Bishops: "Be Modern prophets" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Be modern prophets, taking the proclamation of the Gospel seriously, to all those young people who are far from God, who pursue a wrong path and find themselves doing wrong": as Fides learns, t ...
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  5 October 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Christian churches targeted by jihadists: "A new and disturbing development" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The jihadists have started to target Christian communities and it is a worrying development", says to Fides Fr. Edmond Dembelé, Secretary General of the Bishops' Conference of Mali, who reports ...
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  5 October 2017
  EUROPE/GERMANY - How can we recognize "the migrant God" today in the history of humanity? Stuttgart (Agenzia Fides) - In our multicultural societies the migrant is often relegated to the "poor/needy" category in the material and cultural sense or seen as an "enemy". This is how concrete attitudes are born suc ...
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  4 October 2017
  ASIA/THAILAND - Preparations for the funeral of 'the Greatest King of Siamese History' Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Over 500 officers of the Thai Navy have participated in the preparations for the Royal Cremation of the revered late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died last October at the age of 88. The funeral ...
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  4 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church establishes the "Sant'Atanasio Center for Doctrine" to counteract the spread of erroneous doctrines Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Orthodox Coptic Patriarchate has established an Integrated Center for Doctrinal Studies in the suburban district of Maadi, south of Cairo, which is added to the already existing Institute of S ...
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  4 October 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Priest killed in Rionegro, the second in Colombia in 2017 Antioquia (Agenzia Fides) - Father Abelardo Antonio Muñoz Sánchez, 41 years old was killed during an attempted theft, in San Antonio neighborhood in Rionegro, on the main road leading to La Ceja. According to informat ...