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  6 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New demonstrations in Goma as M23 rebels advance Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Also today, February 6th, protests broke out again in Goma, capital of North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo), Barricades in the streets, where demonstrations that began on Febru ...
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  6 February 2023
  OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - Assembly of the Bishops of Oceania: wants to “listen to the people of God” Suva (Agenzia Fides) - The Assembly of the Federation of the Four Catholic Bishops' Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO) was inaugurated yesterday, Sunday 5 February, with a Mass in the Sacred Heart Cathedral of Suva, capital ...
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  6 February 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Doctors with Africa Cuamm: peace also passes through taking care of people's health Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "South Sudan is a mother that dies at about 20 years of age, due to a birth gone wrong, because assisted only by her grandmother, in her hut made of earth and mud. Two babies born at home, a third ...
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  6 February 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Open letter from the bishops to the members of Congress: "Do not turn your back, listen to the cry of all the Peruvian people" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Congress has rejected a new bill to bring forward general elections to the end of this year, which also included a referendum on the creation of a Constituent Assembly. After this new ...
• 6 February 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Bishop of Buxar, James Shekhar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 4, 2023, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend James Shekhar, of the clergy of Patna, until now deputy secretary of the Episcopal Council of Bihar, Jharkhand and Andaman, as bi ...
• 6 February 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Nongstoin, Wilbert Marwein Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On February 4, 2023, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Wilbert Marwein, of the clergy of Nongstoin, India, hitherto vicar general and parish priest in Nonbah, as bishop of the dioces ...
• 6 February 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of bishop of Tanjore, Devadass Ambrose Mariadoss Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 4, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Tanjore, India, presented by Bishop Devadass Ambrose Mariadoss. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, ...
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  4 February 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - International Day of Human Fraternity: to wither away the politics of hatred New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The International Day of Human Fraternity that we celebrate today, February 4, is a call to be courageous in defending and promoting justice and the rights of all, so that we can truly live a ...
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  4 February 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Knowing how to suffer for Africa". Pope exalts Daniele Comboni's missionary adventure By Gianni Valente Juba (Agenzia Fides) "I have only the good of the Church in my heart. And for the conversion of my African loved ones I would give a hundred lives if I could". This is what Daniele Comboni said of hims ...
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  4 February 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A Church that grows, but with the scourge of tribalism that persists Juba (Agenzia Fides) - There are 64 ethnic groups that make up the complex social mosaic of South Sudan. Coexistence not always easy between the different populations to the point that it ended up fueling the civil war t ...
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  4 February 2023
  EUROPE/GREECE - Farewell to Ioannis Zizioulas, great theologian in Recent Times By Gianni Valente Both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI knew this. Both recognized that as we crossed the threshold of the Third Millennium since the birth of Christ, he was the greatest Christian theologian around, ...
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  3 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Pope Francis to Congolese Bishops: "Christian prophecy" is not "political activity" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Christian prophecy" is not "political activty". Christian prophecy becomes incarnate "in a wide variety of political and social activities, yet that is not generally the task of Bishops and pa ...
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  3 February 2023
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Demonstrations in Goma against African peacekeeping force. Tensions between Kigali and Kinshasa: extraordinary summit in Burundi tomorrow Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We have the right to study like the students in Kinshasa," shout the students in Goma, who took to the streets today, February 3, in the capital of North Kivu as well as in other localities of ...
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  3 February 2023
  ASIA/JAPAN - A petition to protect the lives and dignity of refugees and asylum seekers Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for Refugees and Migrants of the Bishops' Conference of Japan has launched a collection of signatures to draw public and government attention to the possible tightening of the Immig ...
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  3 February 2023
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "Migrant Houses" risk closure: Red Clamor supports Bishops' demands Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Red Clamor ecclesial network, which includes organizations involved in the field of migration, refugees and human trafficking, joins the Bishops' Conference of Guatemala, which expres ...