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  1 April 2023
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Laity: Samaritans of our time and our culture, for social and ecclesial transformation Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - "According to their baptismal identity, the laity assume the commitment to be authentic Christians, so that in every social, political, economic, ecclesial reality ... they can embody values an ...
• 1 April 2023
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Resignation of Bishop of Bubanza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Bubanza, Burundi, presented by Bishop Jean Ntagwarara. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 1/4/2023) ...
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  1 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Palm Sunday: Catholic communities promote the seventh National Collection Day Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - On Palm Sunday, for the seventh consecutive year, the Chinese Catholic community celebrates National Collection Day tomorrow, April 2. The initiative is promoted by Jinde Charites, the orga ...
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  1 April 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A religious of the Missionaries of Africa killed by mistake Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a tragic accident", a person in charge of the General House of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) told Agenzia Fides, confirming the accidental murder of one of his community ...
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  1 April 2023
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - The Catholic community in Moscow commemorates Father Konstantin Budkiewicz 100 years after his execution Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "The cross is not a source of bitterness and disappointment, but is already the beginning of glory". This is how Paolo Pezzi, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Mother of God in Moscow, spoke yesterd ...
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  31 March 2023
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Three online meetings in Russian on Pope Francis' Message for World Mission Day 2023 Astana (Agenzia Fides) - The series of three online training meetings in Russian organized by the Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Kazakhstan and the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Miss ...
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  31 March 2023
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The mission of the Church "on a synodal journey": towards the pastoral assembly in peninsular Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan pastoral assembly of ecclesial realities in Peninsular Malaysia - which is being prepared and will be held between summer and autumn 2023 - will talk about formation, the need ...
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  31 March 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Twenty missionary sisters at the service of evangelization among people in difficulty Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Famine, drought, early marriages, orphans, the elderly, human promotion, evangelization, these are some of the priorities of the sisters of the Congregation of the Social Missionaries of the Chu ...
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  31 March 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The peace process fails to advance after the change in the Ministry of Defense Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Immediately begin operations to disarm the civilian population, starting with the capital, Juba. This is the task assigned to the new Defense Minister of South Sudan, Chol Thon Balok, by President ...
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  31 March 2023
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Temporary reception centers for immigrants "end up being detention centers, where human rights are violated" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "As we have said more than once, 'Guatemala has the primary obligation to fulfill and enforce the rights of male and female citizens to remain in their country in dignified conditions and ...
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  31 March 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - New opportunities for communion and unity for the diocese of Baoding Baoding (Agenzia Fides) - After the difficult time of the pandemic, when churches were closed due to health provisions, even in the diocese of Baoding, in the Chinese province of Hebei, the daily life of the local Cathol ...
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  30 March 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - Bishops of the "Nineveh Council": Christians could boycott the upcoming elections Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Churches present in Mosul and in the Nineveh Plain, in a striking initiative, have announced the possible boycott of the next rounds of elections by the Christian component of t ...
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  30 March 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Gospel translated into the Cuyonon language, to "connect with God" Puerto Princesa (Agenzia Fides) - Making the Gospel understandable and "connecting with God" the populations who speak the indigenous Cuyonon language, settled mainly on the island of Palawan and on other islands in the ...
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  30 March 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Formation activities for catechists and lay people resume after three years of difficulties linked to the pandemic Liaoning (Agenzia Fides) - Three years have passed since the life of the Catholic community in China began to be conditioned and, so to speak, "slowed down" due to the Covid 19 pandemic. At last now many ordinary activit ...
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  30 March 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migrants who died in Ciudad Juárez: "a sad reality that deeply challenges us all" Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - "A sad reality that challenges us, all of us, profoundly, that does not leave us alone", underlined the Bishop of Ciudad Juárez, Monsignor José Guadalupe Torres Campos, when celebrating ...