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  30 August 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Here I am, send me": month of the Bible in a missionary term Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Several Latin American countries dedicate the month of September, in which the feast of Saint Jerome is celebrated (September 30) whose Vulgate is a Latin translation of the Bible, to a special ...
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  30 August 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II: Let us pray also for the evil who attack churches Kyoto (Agenzia Fides) - Following the attacks on churches and the massacres of Christians that have bloodied Egypt in recent months, "the Coptic Church has prayed for all", even for "the evil people" who have attacked ch ...
• 30 August 2017
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Bernardo Espiritu SVD Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 25, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Socie ...
• 30 August 2017
  EUROPE/IRELAND - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Maurice Hogan SSC Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 June 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societi ...
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  30 August 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Mgr. Korir's appeal: "The sick die in hospitals without assistance, stop the nurses strike" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time you talked to each other to end this nurses strike in our country. Kenyans are dying in hospitals because there is no one to attend to them", urged His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Kipng'eno ...
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  29 August 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Repam: incalculable environmental risks and social damage due to the extinction of Renca Brazil (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (Repam) rejects the extinction of the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca), decided by the government, considering it "a blasphemy of Brazilian de ...
• 29 August 2017
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Resignation of the Bishop of Tambacounda and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 5, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Tambacounda, Senegal, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Jean-Noel Diouf, and has appointed His E ...
• 29 August 2017
  AFRICA/BOTSWANA - Resignation of Bishop of Gaborone and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 9, 2017, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Gaborone, Botswana, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Valentine Tsamma Seane. He appointed His ...
• 29 August 2017
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of the Coadjutor of Long Xuyên Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 25, 2017, the Pope appointed His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Tran Van Toan as Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of Long Xuyên, Vietnam. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 29/08/2017) ...
• 29 August 2017
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of the Auxiliary of Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On August 25, 2017, Pope Francis appointed rev. Louis Nguyen Anh Tuan, Director of the Secretariat of the Bishops' Conference of Vietnam as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Thanh-Pho ...
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  29 August 2017
  ASIA/TURKEY - Evangelical pastor Brunson still in prison for espionage. Trump had asked for his extradition Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - President Donald Trump's attempts to release and return Andrew Craig Brunson to the United States, the US Evangelical pastor who had already been arrested in Turkey in the autumn of 2016, accused ...
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  29 August 2017
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The 2nd Meeting of the Bishops' of Africa on Caritas in mid-September in Dakar Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Organizing charity service in Africa: the role of Bishops" is the theme of the 2nd Meeting of the Bishops' of Africa on Caritas to be held from 17 to 21 September 2017 in Dakar, capital of Senega ...
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  29 August 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The relics of Father Ramírez transfered, the Martyr of Armero, the next blessed San Sebastian de La Plata (Agenzia Fides) - A long and crowded procession accompanied the transfer of the relics of Fr. Pedro María Ramírez Ramos, known as "Martyr of Armero", from the main cemetery to the church of Sa ...
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  29 August 2017
  ASIA/IRAQ - Even a Christian among former jihadist prisoners freed in Tal Afar Tal Afar (Agenzia Fides) - Rana Behnam is a Christian woman who was freed in the suburbs of Tal Afar after having been held for a long time in a place of segregation by the jihadists of the self-proclaimed Islamic State ...
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  29 August 2017
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Mudslide in Regent: mobilization of the West African Church Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Mobilization of the Catholic Church in West Africa to help the population of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, affected by the tragedy that occurred in the night between 13 and 14 August, ...