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  21 February 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Missionary biker, last foreign bishop, says goodbye to Kalimantan Sanggau (Agenzia Fides) - At the wheel of his "two-wheeler" he covered miles and miles on the rough roads of West Kalimantan. He visited villages, celebrated the Eucharist and gave the sacraments, catechized children, yo ...
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  21 February 2023
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Death of the bishop of Los Angeles: housekeeper's husband arrested Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - The Los Angeles County authorities have arrested the husband of a woman who worked as a housekeeper for Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell, who was found dead in his home in Hacienda Height ...
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  21 February 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Father Norberto Pozzi is to have a second operation in Italy Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Norberto is on his way to Italy," says Father Aurelio Gazzera, a confrere of the 71-year-old Italian Carmelite missionary Norberto Pozzi, who was injured in a land mine explosion on the B ...
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  20 February 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Walking, together, for the protection of life Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Walking and praying side by side, religious, laity, priests, bishops for the protection and dignity of life, from birth to natural death, for the promotion of the family, for the defense of every ...
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  20 February 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Magdalene and the Tibetan church, an "oasis of coexistence" even for the Chinese state media by Marta Zhao Lhasa (Agenzia Fides) - The China News Service (CNS) (chinanews.com.cn) describes the Catholic community of Yanjing as an "oasis of coexistence" between religions and a "place of encounter" between culture ...
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  20 February 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Attention to the use of new technologies for the vote on February 25 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Our votes are precious; we must use them well, encouraging all eligible citizens to vote en masse for God-fearing, honest, dynamic and transparent leaders for a better Nigeria", says the final co ...
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  20 February 2023
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - David O'Connell, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, shot dead Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 18 February the Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, David O'Connell, died in Hacienda Heights. The news was confirmed by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, José H. Gomez who emphasizes ...
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  18 February 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Catechism and integration programs for South Sudanese refugees. "Good deeds" in Adjumani refugee camps Adjumani (Agenzia Fides) - In Adjumani, in northern Uganda, the Jesuit father Lasantha Deabrew coordinates the Jesuit Refugee Service project for South Sudanese hosted in the refugee camps of Maaji and Aiylo. From this l ...
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  18 February 2023
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Alarm over the trafficking of Russian women who emigrate to Argentina to give birth Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "I am leaving for Argentina. We help people to move to Argentina, obtain permanent residence and passport, which opens visa-free entry to 170 countries around the world", announced RuArgent ...
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  17 February 2023
  ASIA/LEBANON - "Like a mustard seed". The Catholic Churches in the Middle East indicate the points of orientation of their "synodal path" Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic communities in the Middle East are called to bear witness to "fellowship and hope in suffering", to represent the face of a Church "as humble as a 'mustard seed', which grows in the pre ...
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  17 February 2023
  AFRICA - Strong resumption of jihadist attacks in the Maghreb and Sahel in January Rome (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Spanish International Observatory for Studies on Terrorism (OIET), the results of the activities of the various jihadist groups operating in the Maghreb and the Sahel are 134 attac ...
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  17 February 2023
  ASIA - The journey of the Churches of Laos and Cambodia: the proclamation of the Kingdom of God to the poor Phnom Pen (Agenzia Fides) - "Our extremely small Churches (0.1% of the population in Cambodia, - 0.5% in Laos), live in conditions similar to those of the Acts of the Apostles, with first or second generation Christians ...
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  17 February 2023
  Doctrinaires. The mission (and charity) of Teaching Catholic Doctrine by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Tradition "is to guard the fire, not to worship the ashes". This attests the evocative aphorism coined by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. A formula ofte ...
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  16 February 2023
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Priests at the service of the poor, of young people, of the care of the "Common Home" in small communities Ho Chi Minh Ville (Agenzia Fides) - "To serve God through the poor, in whom Christ is present and to be close to them every day" is the desire of Peter Pham Minh Hung, a priest in the parish of Vuon Xoai, belonging to th ...
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  16 February 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Is ISIS Mozambique now hitting only military targets? In any case, civilians are also affected Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Change of strategy by ISIS-Mozambique? This is what one wonders after the latest attacks carried out by the jihadist group against military and government targets that spared the inhabitants of t ...