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  17 March 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Seventh national population census kicks off: awareness among Christian communities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The seventh national population census has begun in Pakistan, which - a big change compared to the past - is carried out through an online registration across the country. Among the items on the ...
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  17 March 2023
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The deepening wounds of drug trafficking and the chronic lack of responses Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - A new alarm for the worsening of drug trafficking with all its harmful consequences has been launched by the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral Care of the Argentine Bishops' Conferen ...
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  17 March 2023
  AFRICA/BENIN - The Mission is an adventure worth living Calavì (Agenzia Fides) - "At the beginning of January 2022, I moved to Calavì, Benin, to the 'Brésillac' Center where the seminarians of the Society for African Missions attend the International Year of Spirituality ( ...
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  17 March 2023
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The fruits, failures, wounds, the new beginnings. Archbishop Nahimana recounts 125 years of the Gospel in Burundi. by Luca Mainoldi Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of our evangelization, the family has been the first cell of the Burundian Church", says Msgr. Bonaventure Nahimana, Archbishop of Gitega and President of the ...
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  16 March 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - No news of the Clerics of Saint Viator missionary kidnapped while celebrating a funeral Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Jean-Yves is still in the hands of his kidnappers. They are not answering our phone calls and the pressure is increasing". This is what Father Nestor Fils-Aimé, Provincial Superi ...
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  16 March 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - Qaraqosh, tensions and disputes around the role of the "Babylonian Brigades" Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) - In the area of Qaraqosh, a predominantly Christian city in the Nineveh Plain, tensions are growing between armed militias and local self-defense units composed largely of armed men who claim to ...
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  16 March 2023
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Proclaiming the gift of life: "to be a Church of life and for life" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We are the people of life!" is the motto chosen by the Bishops' Conference of Colombia for the celebration of the "Week for Life 2023", which will take place from 19 to 26 March. The initiative ...
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  16 March 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The synodal path entrusts itself to the Virgin Mary Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - All the Catholic communities in South Korea, parishes, associations and movements, will gather in a solemn prayer vigil to experience the special "Day of prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary", with t ...
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  15 March 2023
  ASIA - Like the Magi and the great missionaries to scrutinize the signs of the times: the path of the Church in Asia Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The Final Document of the General Conference of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), held in Bangkok from October 12 to 30, 2022, published today, March 15, a list of missionarie ...
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  15 March 2023
  VATICAN - Appointment of Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for the first evangelization and the new particular Churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed His Excellency Monsignor Fortunatus Nwachukwu, Titular Archbishop of Acquaviva, Apostolic Nuncio, currently Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Natio ...
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  15 March 2023
  AMERICA/CHILE - Promoting effective and real intergenerational relationships: new project for the care of the elderly Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - During the Covid-19 pandemic, the elderly population suffered more than other groups, because they lacked the resources necessary to support them. In Chile, there have been many cases of isolat ...
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  15 March 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: the apostolic vocation of the Church concerns the whole people of God and does not recognize "privileged categories" Rome (Agenzia Fides) – To be apostles means "being sent for a mission". A task that is not assumed through the dynamics of self-persuasion and self-promotion, but only by virtue of "God's free call", received as "a fre ...
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  15 March 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Protests over the just demands of healthcare workers must not harm patients,” says Bishop of Mthatha Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The South African Labor Court of Appeal has ordered public health workers to end a week-long strike that has affected some of the country's main hospitals. Members of the National Educatio ...
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  15 March 2023
  AFRICA/TOGO - Faith can grow even in the difficulties that all missionaries face every day Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "Each of our young people has a story to live, to tell. We would like to share some of their reflections on mission, the joys, the difficulties, the challenges". It was Fathers Walter Woamede and ...
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  15 March 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Give thanks to God on the peaks of Mount Lú. Lenten pilgrimages to the Marian shrine of Lushan for the feast of Saint Joseph Lushan (Agenzia Fides) - Lushan, "Mount Lú", is a mountain located in the district of the same name, south of the city of Jiujiang, in the Chinese province of Jiangxi. From a distance, you can admire countless peaks tha ...