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  13 May 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians take to the streets for a "solidarity demonstration" after the attacks on Chaldean Patriarch Sako Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - More than two hundred Christians gathered in Tahrir Square, in the center of Baghdad, on the evening of Friday May 12, to show their solidarity with Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako, Patriarch of th ...
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  13 May 2023
  VATICAN - "Antiquum ministerium", fruit of the Second Vatican Council by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Although the figure of the catechist appears already after the First Vatican Council (1870), with the emergence of a great catechetical movement, the driving impulse ...
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  12 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The political and social crisis affects above all the poor Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The current political crisis in Pakistan is the manifestation of a confrontation between powers and potentates which is not beneficial for the country. Tensions and street demonstrations have a ...
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  12 May 2023
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop Stephen Chow to "La Civiltà Cattolica": Many Chinese Catholics hope for a meeting between Pope Francis and President Xi Jinping Rome (Agenzia Fides) - About a third of the dioceses of mainland China are "waiting their respective episcopal appointments", revealed Jesuit Bishop Peter Chow Sau-yan, head of the diocese of Hong Kong, in an in-depth in ...
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  12 May 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Eparch of Adigrat: the impact of the crisis in Tigray also affects pastoral service programs Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - Famine, cities and homes looted, hospitals destroyed, businesses razed to the ground, sacred places desecrated, rapes. The people of Tigray have been suffering unimaginable suffering for almost ...
• 12 May 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The President criticizes the military for the death of the Minister of Labour killed by his bodyguard Kampala (Agenzia Fides). "It is a matter of great embarrassment for the army that a soldier assigned as a bodyguard ends up killing those he was supposed to protect", Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said at the funeral ...
• 12 May 2023
  AMERICA/PANAMA - No amount of money can compensate for the damage that mining can cause Panama (Agenzia Fides) - "Metal mining is neither feasible nor sustainable in a country with the water and biodiversity richness and climate vulnerability of Panama. This is proven by many international and national stud ...
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  12 May 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: mission "is not our work, but God's" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Mission, like communion, "is above all a mystery of grace". Mission "is not our work, but God’s; we do not do it alone, but moved by the Spirit and docile to his action". Thus Pope Francis once a ...
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  11 May 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Our Lady of Consolation on pilgrimage in the country: deep Marian devotion Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Our Lady of Consolation visits neighborhoods and buildings in the city of Manila, as well as throughout the country, to bring a message of hope, peace, support and comfort to the poor and oppress ...
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  11 May 2023
  AFRICA/GHANA - Interreligious dialogue, education, evangelization in the Kingdom of Ashanti Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelization, formation, health care and interreligious dialogue are at the heart of the activities of the priests of the Society for African Missions in the ancient kingdom of Ashanti. The miss ...
• 11 May 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Church structures mobilized to welcome people fleeing fighting in Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Mobilize religious congregations present in the Archdiocese of Juba, capital of South Sudan, to welcome people fleeing the war between the army and paramilitaries in Sudan. This is what Msgr. Steph ...
• 11 May 2023
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Mirope Milanco Duartes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 26, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed the Rev. Mirope Milanco Duartes, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Panama as ...
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  11 May 2023
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - CELAM Assembly: "Christ must be the center of our meeting, of our reflection, of our pastoral care" Aguadilla (Agenzia Fides) - "Christ must be the center of our meeting, of our reflection, of our pastoral work", stressed Monsignor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, Archbishop of Trujillo, President of the Latin American and Car ...
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  11 May 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - An unusual pilgrimage: to discover Father Matteo Ricci's testimony of faith by Martha Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Retracing Matteo Ricci's journey, from Zhaoqing to Beijing, has touched us deeply. Along the way, we have marveled many times at the signs and memories that have reminded us o ...
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  10 May 2023
  VATICAN: Pope Francis at the General Audience together with Pope Tawadros: "the martyrs of the Coptic Church are also ours" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I pray that Christ will preserve you in full health and grant you the blessing of a long life". Thus the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II addressed Pope Francis, in his brief speech read in A ...