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  17 May 2022
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Beatification of Pauline Jaricot in Lyon: local initiatives and events Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - Lyon is preparing for the beatification celebrations next Sunday for the foundress of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, Pauline Jaricot (see Fides, 3/5/2022). In the course ...
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  17 May 2022
  VATICAN - Message of the Holy Father Francis to the Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies gathered in Lyon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We publish below the Message that the Holy Father Francis has sent to the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) on the occasion of the opening of the General Assembly which is taking place in ...
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  17 May 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Communication Week: "Listening with the ear of the heart" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - For the third consecutive year, Pascom Brasil (Pastoral Care of Communication-Brazil) will celebrate the Week of Communication, in preparation for the 56th World Day of Social Communications, ( ...
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  17 May 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - "I have never regretted converting to Christianity" Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not easy to be a Christian in Niger today, and even more so after the jihadism fueled by movements such as Al Qaeda or Boko Haram, present in the country", writes to Fides Fr. Rafael Casama ...
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  17 May 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Church officials after Israeli police intervention against funeral procession: "Violation of international norms" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The attack by the Israeli police on the funeral procession of the Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, who was killed on Wednesday 11th May during a raid by the Israeli army on a refugee ...
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  17 May 2022
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops on National Day: "Independence is neither complete nor possible without charity" Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "The independence of the homeland is neither complete nor possible without mutual love between Paraguayan brothers and sisters, following the example of Jesus", writes the President of the Par ...
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  17 May 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Vesak Festival: Buddhists and Christians together for a better world Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The festival of Vesak, celebrated by Buddhists all over the world to commemorate the birth of Buddha, touches most Vietnamese people deeply. It is an opportunity for many of the country's citizens ...
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  17 May 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillians of the island of Flores, in view of new ordinations, express joy for the newly elected Superiors Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment our life here seems to be going at a normal rhythm and our many seminarians are preparing intensively for their exams at the end of the year. In the coming months there will be va ...
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  16 May 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The role of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the growth of the living and active faith of the local Church Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pontifical Mission Societies can be defined as the four evangelical arms of the Holy Father in carrying out the mission of the Church that Jesus Christ began on earth". This is how Father Pontian K ...
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  16 May 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The XII General Assembly of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) begins Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "Courage, it's me, do not be afraid!". The reassuring words that Jesus addresses to the Apostles, troubled and uncertain after having seen him walking towards them on the waters, in the Lake of Ti ...
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  16 May 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Protection, defense and care of life, not its destruction": decriminalization of assisted suicide approved Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Constitutional Court of Colombia has decided to decriminalize medically assisted suicide. This allows those who request it to have access to a dignified death. Medically assisted suicide is a ...
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  16 May 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Murder of two Sikhs in Peshawar: alarm of religious minorities Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - "Religious minorities in Pakistan are continuously persecuted, we are worried for our protection and our future in Pakistan. Members of minority religious communities are attacked and killed. T ...
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  16 May 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "An abyss that only divine love can fill": the canonization of Charles de Foucauld experienced by a missionary of the 'last mile' Gode (Agenzia Fides) - - "I look at Saint Charles de Foucauld, and I am comforted and encouraged in the face of my lack of human efficacy. He insisted on the ordinary, daily life, of living with Jesus under the gaze of t ...
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  16 May 2022
  AMERICA/CANADA - The Bishops: "As we prepare to welcome the Holy Father, we continue the journey of healing and reconciliation" Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are immensely grateful that the Holy Father has accepted our invitation to continue the journey of healing and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples of this land. In late July, Pope Francis ...
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  16 May 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - A free market in the parish, for the mutual support of the faithful Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "Our 'free market' is not only a bazaar to exchange objects and clothes, but also a place where people meet in a happy atmosphere and help each other", says Nataliya Zykova of the Moscow Catholic ...