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• 3 March 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Bishop of Nakuru, Cleophas Oseso Tuka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 15, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Cleophas Oseso Tuka, of the clergy of Nakuru, until now vicar general and parish priest of Saint Augustine in Bahati, a ...
• 3 March 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Elevation to diocese of the apostolic vicariate of Isiolo, Kenya, and appointment of first bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 15, 2023, the Holy Father Francis elevated the apostolic vicariate of Isiolo, Kenya, to a diocese, with the same denomination and territorial configuration, making it a suffrag ...
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  2 March 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Acts of vandalism in the cathedral Saint Mary Queen of Peace Geita (Agenzia Fides) - "It was 1:56 pm on February 26 when Father Charles Kato, one of the resident priests of the episcopate, received a phone call from one of the guards asking him to go immediately to the cathedral . ...
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  2 March 2023
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Positive results for the participation of the Catholic Church in the 2023 Taipei International Book Exhibition Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - In February, the 31st TIBE 2023 Taipei International Book Exhibition took place in the Taipei World Trade Center, with the participation of the local Catholic Church, which gave positive results. ...
• 2 March 2023
  AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishops of Accra Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 14, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the following as auxiliary bishops of the metropolitan archdiocese of Accra, Ghana: the Reverend John Kobina Louis, of the clery of ...
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  2 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Opposition wants to challenge election results: Wahlsiger Tinubu is trying to achieve reconciliation Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The first act of Nigerian President-elect Bola Tinubu, yesterday March 1st, launched a reconciliation committee with the other presidential candidates who stood in the elections of February 25th ( ...
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  2 March 2023
  ASIA/JORDAN - Archbishop Dal Toso takes office as Apostolic Nuncio Amman (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of March 1 Archbishop Giampietro Dal Toso arrived in Amman where he will take up his duties as Nuncio Apostolic to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. As the news portal "abouna.org." ...
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  2 March 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Lenten charity of Burmese Catholics Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - During Lent, Catholic communities collect donations for displaced people and those living in poverty in the forests, victims of the ongoing civil war in Myanmar. "In the Catholic churches of Myan ...
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  2 March 2023
  AMERICA - Summit of the Presidents of the Amazon Region: "We have to face great challenges and have little time to act" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), the Amazon World Assembly (AMA) and the Panamanian Social Forum (FOSPA) published on March 1st a joint letter addressed to the Presidents of the Ama ...
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  1 March 2023
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Sixteen new deacons will accompany future pastoral care for ethnic minorities Hưng Hóa (Agenzia Fides) - Sixteen new deacons from the Vietnamese diocese of Hưng Hóa are to accompany the proclamation of the Gospel and pastoral work in the most remote areas of north-western Vietnam, particularly ...
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  1 March 2023
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - After 46 years, investigations into the death of Bishop Carlos Ponce de Leon are reopened Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Court of Appeal of Rosario overturned a 1978 judgment that caused the death of Bishop Carlos Horacio Ponce de León of San Nicolas classified as the result of a road accident. This a ...
• 1 March 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Maputo, Tonito Francisco Xavier Muananoua Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Rev. Tonito Francisco Xavier Muananoua, of the clergy of Guruè, currently Vicar General and parish priest of the Cathedral of Santo António de Lisboa ...
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  1 March 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: Humanitarian situation worsens Goma (Agenzia Fides) - The recent wave of violence in the province of North Kivu (see Fides, 9/2/2023) has forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes and seek shelter in different areas of the region. Among ...
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  1 March 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Growing up (and studying) in the Peruvian Amazon. The boys and girls of the “St. Clotilde Boarding School” St. Clotilde (Agenzia Fides) - This year more than two hundred boys and girls will attend the “St. Clotilde Boarding School”: 114 girls and 98 boys. For ten months a year the boarding school becomes their home. They ...
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  1 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The candidate of the outgoing President's party wins the presidential elections Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The former governor of Lagos, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has won the presidential elections held in Nigeria on February 25, according to the official results published today, March 1, by the Independent N ...