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  29 April 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - The "Day of the Catechist": disciple-missionary called to live synodality Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Since 2013, the Bishops of Peru have decided to celebrate, on the third Sunday of Easter, the "Day of the Catechist", whose patron is St. Francis Solano. For this reason, the Episcopal Commission ...
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  29 April 2022
  AFRICA - Appeals continue to support the populations of the Horn of Africa who risk dying of hunger and thirst Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Millions of people across East Africa are facing extreme levels of hunger and malnutrition. The region's food insecurity continues to be exacerbated by ongoing conflicts, severe drought, loc ...
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  29 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Population on the brink: the humanitarian action of the Church, which asks for peace Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "At the end of 2021, when we understood that the conflict would continue, we agreed that more attention would be needed and to start an aid program. At that point, the Church, the Bishops, t ...
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  29 April 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Catholic community prays the Rosary in view of the elections Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic faithful in the Philippines entrust the nation to Mary and join together spiritually to pray the Rosary on the occasion of the national and local elections on May 9. In a pastoral st ...
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  29 April 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Comboni Missionaries: "Doors open in our homes to welcome and care for the Ukrainian population fleeing the war" Krakow (Agenzia Fides) - "Our Comboni communities in Poland have been committed from the very beginning to welcoming refugees from Ukraine. To date, about three million refugees have crossed the border into our country. ...
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  29 April 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - More than 13,000 vaccines against Covid carried out in parishes last weekend San José (Agenzia Fides) - Last weekend April 23/24, 170 parishes in Costa Rica joined the "Complete your scheme" ("Completá tu esquema") campaign so that children and adults can complete their vaccination program agai ...
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  28 April 2022
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Canonization of Charles de Foucauld: Archbishop of Algiers on the special spiritual path Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - Charles de Foucauld is not just an icon. Because if his story continues to touch the hearts of a multitude of people in all parts of the world, it is not because of the romantic image of a "herm ...
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  28 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - The Easter cross carried by a people suffering from famine, lack of medicine, violence and insecurity Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "We, the Christians of Dosso, form a small, very small, minority community in a predominantly Islamized society. We are happy but also fragile in the face of the diversity and multiplicity of colo ...
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  28 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Missionary Jubilee Year: "A time of awareness of the missio ad gentes" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Our goal is to keep alive the memory of the missionary journey, but above all to see missionary action as a paradigm for all the work of the Church. The Jubilee brings us into this wonderful d ...
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  28 April 2022
  ASIA - Asia, the continent of natural disasters and poverty Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - By 2030 the world will face around 560 natural disasters a year and most of these events will affect Asia. This emerges from the Global Assessment Report 2022 published by the UN Office for Disa ...
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  28 April 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Sentences, violence and murders for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A so-called Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Lahore has ruled in the murder of Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara, who was killed by a mob in Sialkot in December 2021 on charges of blasphemy (see F ...
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  28 April 2022
  AMERICA - Saint Toribio de Mogrovejom, the great evangelizer who anticipated the journey of the "Church which goes forth" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Saint Toribio anticipated the journey of the 'Church which goes forth' on our continent. He spent a total of 17 of his 25 years as Archbishop of Lima traveling some 40,000 kilometers making pas ...
• 27 April 2022
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Appointment of the Bishop of Matadi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 23, 2022 the Holy Father appointed Rev. André Giraud Pindi Mwanza, of the clergy of Matadi, currently Apostolic Administrator of the same Diocese, as Bishop of Matadi (Democratic ...
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  27 April 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Moron warns against misleading information about drug use Moron (Agenzia Fides) - "As Bishop of Moron, I would like to address our entire community and publicly express my deep concern at statements that send a misleading message to young people about the serious consequences a ...
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  27 April 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A total of 4,000 Coptic Christians make the Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - This Easter, more than 4,000 Egyptian Coptic Christians made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land to celebrate in places linked to the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. The data, pr ...