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  14 February 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Missionary volunteering as a vocational path": Living Baptism as a gift from God Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The seven formation and animation meetings of the General Sector of the Missions of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) have just ended, aimed at the provincial coordinators and missiona ...
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  13 February 2023
  VATICAN - The Pontifical Mission Societies, with the Pope, alongside the populations affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest estimates, there are more than 41 thousand victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. A death toll that is unfortunately destined to increase, ...
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  13 February 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The condition of Father Norberto Pozzi injured in a mine explosion Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Norberto Pozzi is better they have taken him off the ventilator and now he is breathing on his own. They have just called me from the hospital in Entebbe", says from Bozoum to Fides Fathe ...
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  13 February 2023
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Pope Francis: "Peace is born of truth, justice, freedom and love and is achieved through patient dialogue" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The news from Nicaragua has saddened me a great deal, and I cannot but remember with concern Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, whom I care about greatly, sentenced to 26 years imprisonment, an ...
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  13 February 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The people of God gather at Mary's feet to ask for peace, justice, healing, reconciliation Nyaunglebin (Agenzia Fides) - The people of Myanmar gather at the feet of the Virgin Mary to earnestly invoke, with inner emotion and spiritual participation, healing and peace. Thousands of pilgrims and devotees gathere ...
• 13 February 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Erection of the diocese of Aguleri and appointment of first bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 12, 2023, the Holy Father erected the new diocese of Aguleri, Nigeria, dismembering the archdiocese of Onitsha and making it a suffragan of the same metropolitan see. The Holy ...
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  13 February 2023
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - The diocese of Makeni has a new bishop. “Happiness and gratitude on behalf of the people of God” by Antonella Prenna Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 11, 2023, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Bob John Hassan Koroma, of the clergy of Makeni, until now vicar general and administrator of the Cathedral ...
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  10 February 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Ruthless violence against the defenseless. Missionary kidnapped, Brazilian nuns attacked Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "We hoped that the situation would improve, instead, after a pause at Christmas everything exploded again", Father Antonio Menegòn, a Camillian missionary (MI) tells Fides. The priest re ...
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  10 February 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Beijing parish of Xi Tang asks Mary for graces and healings on the World Day of the Sick Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The Beijing parish of Xi Tang celebrates the 300th anniversary of its foundation by inviting the people of God to make a spiritual "pilgrimage" tomorrow, February 11, on the day the liturgy cele ...
• 10 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: Missionary warns of conflicting reports and media campaigns Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "As far as we know, the rebels are still advancing towards Goma. The M23 militias are currently 35 km from the capital of North Kivu," says Pierre Kabeza, a former trade unionist now representi ...
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  10 February 2023
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops on the current situation: “We must not get used to violence” San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Yes to justice, to love, to peace", said Pope John Paul II during his visit to Costa Rica on March 3, 1983. It is under this motto that the members of the Costa Rican Bishops' Conference pres ...
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  10 February 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Korean community's closeness and solidarity with earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Images of the widespread devastation caused by the earthquake on February 6 in Turkey and Syria have not left Catholics in South Korea indifferent. Peter Chung Soon-Taick, O.C.D., Archbishop of S ...
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  9 February 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - With martial law in 37 other cities, the army is determined to "crush any resistance" Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - With the imposition of martial law in 37 other townships throughout the country, including the strongholds of the resistance in the regions of Sagaing and Magwe, the pressure of the military go ...
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  9 February 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Celebrating the God of the Mission: centenary of the presence of the Consolata Missionaries Iringa (Agenzia Fides) - "What is the point of celebrating the Centenary of the presence of the Consolata Missionaries in Tanzania? What are we celebrating? Who are we celebrating?" write Sister Simona Brambilla, Superi ...
• 9 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The toll of the assault on a UN convoy worsens Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions remain high in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This morning, February 9, new clashes are reported between the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) and M23 rebels ...