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  27 May 2023
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Bishop Balla: "Christian and Muslim religious representatives are involved in the discussion about the country's growth" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Between Mali, Sierra Leone and the Atlantic Ocean lies Guinea with its capital city of Conakry, the northern part of the country bordering equally on one corner of Guinea Bissau and one of Seneg ...
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  27 May 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Women entrepreneurs in rural areas, thanks to the Archdiocese of Calcutta Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) – To restore dignity to women in society, especially in rural areas; to promote their entrepreneurial capacities and develop their skills: it is with this objective that the organization "Seva ...
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  27 May 2023
  VATICAN - Communicating joy and "speaking from the heart": multimedia course "Communication is mission" has ended Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Communicating joy and "speaking from the heart", as Pope Francis says in his message for the Day of Social Communications 2023; to serve the Lord and the local churches in the work of evang ...
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  27 May 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - Don Milani's mission by Gianni Valente On May 27, 1923, exactly one hundred years ago, Don Lorenzo Milani was born in Florence. The anniversary rekindles the ever-conflicting attention around the inimitable figure of the Italian priest. T ...
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  26 May 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Premature death of a Korean fidei donum priest, an example of missionary passion, humility and poverty Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - There are missionaries who leave an indelible mark both in the community where they carried out their apostolic service and in the community of origin, which "brought them to faith" and acco ...
• 26 May 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The Shakahola massacre is a well organized, well planned and perfectly executed crime" says Interior Minister Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - There are 241 bodies found so far of followers of a Kenyan sect, buried in mass graves in the Shakahola forest, in eastern Kenya, on a ranch in Kilifi county, near the city of Malindi (see Fides ...
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  26 May 2023
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Another sacrilegious act against sacred places: already 90 since the beginning of 2023 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "They can desecrate our temples, destroy our images, but our faith always remains in Jesus Christ who created heaven and earth. Long live the Sacramental Jesus". This is a new sacrilegious act r ...
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  26 May 2023
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Three days of formation and missionary animation to celebrate the 180th anniversary of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - Three days to celebrate the National Day of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood, in the broader context of the 180th anniversary of the foundation of the Society by Msgr. Charles de ...
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  26 May 2023
  AFRICA - 'Women Beyond Borders': to give voice to women working in the existential peripheries around the world Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Comboni Sisters have launched “Comboni Sisters – Women Beyond Borders,” a new digital media aimed at sharing the stories of missionary women working in existential peripheries around the ...
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  25 May 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Prayer and symposium for reconciliation and unity on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in South Korea is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the war that devastated the peninsula from 1950 to 1953. To mark the occasion, the Korean Church has annou ...
• 25 May 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The kidnapping industry" in Nigeria spares no one Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – While Father Kingsley Maduka, the parish priest of the Catholic parish of Christ the King, Ezinnachi-Ugwaku, Okigwe L.G.A., in the State of Imo, in south-eastern Nigeria, is finding his freedom, ...
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  25 May 2023
  AMERICA - Week of prayer: "anointed by the same Spirit, let us seek to be a reflection of Trinitarian love, love in unity, love in diversity" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - In many Latin American Catholic communities the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity" takes place on the days before or after Pentecost. The churches in Brazil celebrate it during the week of Ma ...
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  24 May 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Girls forced into early marriage: education is the key to the fight against this phenomenon Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - A dramatic figure has been published by UNICEF in recent weeks, indicating that approximately 51% of girls under 18 in Bangladesh are forced into early marriage. Due to a cultural practice, which ...
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  24 May 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Marian processions, Confirmations, Masses and Prayers: how Chinese Catholics experienced the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - 300 Catholics from the parish of Bailing, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians, in the diocese of Shantou (Chinese province of Guangdong), received today, Wednesday, May 24, ...
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  24 May 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis believes witnessing in times of persecution "can bear much fruit for the faith". And invites to pray for the proclamation of the Gospel in China Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Witnessing to the Gospel in times of persecution "can bear much fruit for the faith". This is attested by dozens of witnesses and martyrs who confessed their faith in Christ in unfavorable circums ...