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• 21 April 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A mine explodes as a mission car passes by in Niem: 4 dead, including two children; The Italian missionary unharmed Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, April 16, a mine exploded near the car of the Catholic mission of Niem, between the villages of Ndongue Douane and Sokorta, 115 km from Bouar, in the Central African Republic. The prov ...
• 21 April 2023
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father José Orlando Camacho Torres Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 18, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Rev. Father José Orlando Camacho Torres, of the Congregation of the Holy Spiri ...
• 21 April 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 15, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed the position of rev. Fr. Bonaventure Luchidio, of the diocesan clergy of Ka ...
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  21 April 2023
  ASIA - Synodal and ecumenical journey in Central Asia Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "We shared our impressions and the legacy that Pope Francis left us after visiting this land, during his trip to Kazakhstan in September 2022, through a sincere account of this apostolic journ ...
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  21 April 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Let us not be discouraged, let us not minimize the signs of hope, the risen Christ walks with us Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "Although it is impossible to ignore the multiple scenarios, in which there seem to be signs of death everywhere, we cannot fall into pessimistic discouragements that could infect us with fe ...
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  21 April 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The risk of bombs on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, the celebration of the end of Ramadan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The country has been at war for a week. The population of the capital Khartoum woke up on the first day of Eid el Fitr, the feast of the end of Ramadan, to the sound of shelling and anti-aircra ...
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  20 April 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Joint Guidelines for Indigenous Pastoral Care in the Apostolic Vicariates of the Peruvian Amazon Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - "To strengthen and articulate the Indigenous Pastoral Care of the vicariates of the Peruvian Amazon, through joint pastoral guidelines, according to social, cultural, ecological and ecclesial re ...
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  20 April 2023
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Freeing slaves, yesterday and today: the Trinitarian Family returns to the routes of its first vocation Fèz (Agenzia Fides) - For two days the parish of St. Francis of Assisi in Fèz welcomed the visit of 170 pilgrims from the Trinitarian Family who came to retrace the route of the ancient 'redeemers' who, from 1200 onwar ...
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  20 April 2023
  VATICAN - The Apostolic Letter "Antiquum ministerium" and the memory of the martyred catechists, "friutful source" of Christian spirituality Two years after the publication of the Apostolic Letter "Antiquum ministerium", with which Pope Francis instituted the ministry of catechist in the Church (May 10, 2021), and in the context of the tenth year of his Ponti ...
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  20 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Proclaiming the Gospel through art: the "Via pulchritudinis" of the Chinese Catholic communities Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - On April 22, the 300th anniversary of the founding of the "Church of the West" will be celebrated in the parish of Xitang with the performance of a concert of sacred music. The Xitang church, de ...
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  19 April 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Do not ruin the paradise of bio-diversity: appeal of the Bishops of Palawan to President Marcos Brooke's Point (Agenzia Fides) - It is necessary to protect the island of Palawan, a "paradise of biodiversity", a national natural heritage, which risks being irreparably ruined by mining operations: for this reason, th ...
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  19 April 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: martyrs, quintessential witnesses of Christ Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After the generation of the Apostles, the witnesses "par excellence" of the Gospel of Christ have always been the martyrs, those who shed their blood for Christ and also experienced in their flesh ...
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  19 April 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Deserted streets, closed businesses, only the sound of bombs Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "We are all locked in our homes and have been advised not to go out. Bullets and bombs come from everywhere. Yesterday evening, Tuesday April 18, a truce was planned from 6 in the afternoon unt ...
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  19 April 2023
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops before the elections on April 30: "a clean government begins with clean elections" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the general elections on April 30, the Episcopal Conference of Paraguay published a message on April 18 in which it appeals "to the conscience of each voter, especially Christians", ...
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  19 April 2023
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Vocations flourish: Missionary Societies of Apostolic Life count 1,300 missionaries and more than 1,000 seminarians of African origin Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission starting from Africa" is the central theme that will be at the heart of the exchanges and debates at the Continental Meeting of Missionary Societies of Apostolic Life (MISAL) which will ...