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  2 June 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Discerning the moment that Colombia is experiencing in the light of faith Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Let's make discernment. Help to discern in the light of faith the moment that Colombia is experiencing, in view of the second round to elect the new President of the Republic". This is the title ...
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  2 June 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "The Church is not yet an angelic community. It lives in the world without being of the world" Robe (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church is not yet an angelic community. She lives in the world without being of the world, totally and seriously in the world. Living the reality of the world as an evangelizing presence is no ...
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  1 June 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops’ appeal a few weeks before Pope Francis' visit: "Stop the war in North Kivu" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The nightmare of war has been going on for too long. We ask the belligerents to return to reason", exhort the Bishops of CENCO (National Episcopal Conference of the Congo), in a statement in w ...
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  1 June 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Russian faithful in prayer with the Pope to ask for the gift of peace Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "If God is among us, we may encounter difficulties and unforeseeable circumstances, but we will not lose what is most important. And what counts most is the relationship with God: those bonds wit ...
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  1 June 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - Polish and Ukrainian religious institutions offer help to the Ukrainian people Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - There are many religious institutions in Poland and Ukraine that offer help and comfort to the Ukrainian people wounded by the ongoing conflict. Many of them carry out a hidden and silent and yet ...
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  1 June 2022
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - The reception of Ukrainian refugees has become an integral part of the life of the Salesian community of Kazincbarcika Kazincbarcika (Agenzia Fides) - Kazincbarcika is a city in northern Hungary, where the Salesians run a parish, a Salesian house, two schools, a dormitory and various other apostolic activities, with which they take care ...
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  1 June 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church celebrates the entry into Egypt of the Holy Family Sakhā (Agenzia Fides) - People who follow Jesus consecrate their family to the Lord, so that he protects them from the dangers of the present time, and preserves their path in love, sharing and freedom. This is how Copt ...
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  1 June 2022
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - The valuable contribution of the Catholic community to the new political season Dili (Agenzia Fides) - "We have inaugurated a period of political stability. This is a good omen. In this phase, as in the past, the Catholic Church will make its valuable contribution to the spiritual, cultural, economi ...
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  1 June 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops for the presidential ballot: Strengthening democracy, the common good, excluding hatred and violence Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The leader of the left, Gustavo Petro, will face the independent Rodolfo Hernández, in the second presidential round scheduled in Colombia for June 19. In the first round of the presidential ele ...
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  1 June 2022
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “Nabad” peace! With peace and reconciliation everything is possible Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The election of Hassan Sceikh Mahamud, former president and founder of a private university, has received warm congratulations from international and regional leaders and has already moved the ...
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  31 May 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Celebrations in the Marian shrine Jabal al Tayr: around one million pilgrims expected Samalut (Agenzia Fides) - This year more than one million Egyptian pilgrims, both Coptic Christians and Muslims, are expected at the Marian Monastery-Shrine of Jabal al Tayr, near the city of Samalut, in the Egyptian pro ...
• 31 May 2022
  ASIA/LAOS - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Paksé Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Andrew Souksavath Nouane Asa, of the clergy of Paksé, Laos, until now apostolic administrator of Paksé, as vicar apostolic of the same vicariate ...
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  31 May 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - The General Chapter of the Comboni Missionaries begins Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The XIX General Chapter of the Comboni Missionaries, inspired by the biblical icon "I am the vine, you are the branches" (Jn 15.5), will take place from June 1 to 30, at the General House of the In ...
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  31 May 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Catholic school in America has a future, but the task ahead is not easy Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - " The Catholic school of America has a future!". With this conviction, the 27th Inter-American Congress of Catholic Education concluded in Mexico City on May 27 and 28, with the participatio ...
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  31 May 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians wanted to carry out the most humble jobs: the Punjab government puts an end to this practice Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We welcome the notification from the government of the province of Punjab, issued last week, which states that all government offices will no longer have to indicate, in any announcement or publ ...