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• 20 May 2023
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Blessed Martin Benedict, "true priest and true doctor" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "True priest and true doctor". This is how Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, wanted to highlight the salvific mission of Venerable Martin Benedict, duri ...
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  20 May 2023
  EUROPE/BELARUS - The new church of St. Francis of Assisi consecrated in Minsk Minsk (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the consecration of the new parish church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Minsk, capital of Belarus, ended today, Saturday May 20, at the end of the morning. The solemn liturgical ...
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  20 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christian teenagers in prison for alleged blasphemy, a Muslim religious killed Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christian teenagers from Lahore, Adil Baber, 18, and Simon Nadeem, 12, were arrested and charged with "blasphemy" under article 295-C of the Penal Code yesterday, May 19 , by order of the cou ...
• 20 May 2023
  AFRICA/CHAD - "Where do the weapons come from?". The unsettling questions of Catholic associations and movements on the recent massacres in southern Chad Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We demand an immediate end to the massacres and greater security for the populations of the whole country", says the Union of Catholic Lay Movements and Associations of Chad (Umalect, which b ...
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  20 May 2023
  AFRICA/TOGO - Catholics and Muslims together inaugurate the 'Msgr. Marion De Brésillac' medical and social center in the suburbs of Lomé Apessito (Agenzia Fides) - "A few days ago we inaugurated the Msgr. Marion De Brésillac Medical and Social Center in Apessito in the large suburb of Lomé. The Muslim village chief, the Iman, and the chief of the loca ...
• 19 May 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Called to bear witness to Christ in an increasingly complex society: interview with the President of the Episcopal Conference of Tanzania Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "We are grateful to God for this young Church with strong roots and growing" says in an interview with Agenzia Fides the Archbishop of Mbeya and President of the Episcopal Conference of Ta ...
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  19 May 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Shen Bin leads the pilgrimage to Our Lady of Sheshan, reciting the prayer written by Benedict XVI Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Catholics from the diocese of Shanghai took part in the pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians in Sheshan, led by Bishop Joseph Shen Bin. Under a torrential rain, ...
• 19 May 2023
  AFRICA/MAURITIUS - Resignation and appointment of Bishop of Port-Louis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Port-Louis (Mauritius) presented by His Eminence Cardinal Maurice Piat, C.S.Sp. The Holy Father ...
• 19 May 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Morondava Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverand Jean Nicolas Rakotojaona, of the clergy of Antananarivo, currently Rector of the Major Seminary of Philosophy Saint Paul Apôtre in Antsir ...
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  19 May 2023
  ASIA/TURKEY - Iskederun and Antioch, faith amid the rubble. The construction of a pastoral center to celebrate the Eucharist is being studied Izmir (Agenzia Fides) - Rubble, interior and exterior wounds, closed roads, sleeping tents instead of houses. This is the reality told by Father Adrian E. Loza, OFM, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
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  19 May 2023
  AFRICA/MALI - Arthur Kenneth Elliott freed after seven years of imprisonment Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The news of the release of Arthur Kenneth Elliott, the Australian doctor kidnapped in Burkina Faso seven years ago, arrived a few hours ago. It was exactly on January 15, 2016 when Dr. Elliot, no ...
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  19 May 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Pastoral care of Communication: "a dynamic, dialogical, interactive and multidirectional process" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - During the Week of Communication that the Church in Brazil is experiencing in view of the 57th World Day of Social Communications, on May 21, the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) ...
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  19 May 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Traveling and promoting the spirituality of dialogue and "dialogue of life": the path of the Focolare Movement Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - With the visit to the Catholic parish of St. Odilia in Tangerang, in the archdiocese of Jakarta, the visit to Indonesia of Margaret Karram and Jesús Morán, President and Co-President of the Fo ...
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  17 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Massacre in Darfur and camps ready to welcome refugees in South Sudan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - While the fighting continues to intensify in Khartoum, the most serious situation in terms of human casualties is in the province of Darfur. In the past week, clashes have claimed more than 350 ...
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  17 May 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Franciscan Sisters of Sukabumi were born from the mission of a Dutch religious congregation Sukabumi (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary history of the Franciscan Sisters in the city of Bergen op Zoom (Boz), in the Netherlands, fully expresses the authentic spirit and apostolic dedication of many people and congre ...