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  25 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Camillian missionaries: "Make Christ present by bringing a sign of hope to the sick" Munkacs (Agenzia Fides) - "Among the Ukrainian refugees, many sick, due to their precarious health conditions, cannot move because they are confined to a hospital bed or in a wheelchair. There are lonely and abandoned pe ...
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  22 April 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - National Catholic Collection Day: "God always gives more than we think" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "God always gives more than we think, we just have to put his teaching into practice with love", said the head of the economic affairs of the small parish of Huangshi, located in the province of Hu ...
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  22 April 2022
  AFRICA/TOGO - Recent developments in Lomè: Missionary reports on the work of religious in the peripheries Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - "Our students are on vacation, with their families and in their parishes. After Easter we will welcome five interns from Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Tanzania who will work in different parishes ...
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  22 April 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Great National Mission: the Missionary Cross will travel to all the dioceses San José (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the Great National Mission that the Catholic Church of Costa Rica is carrying out, the enthronement of a Missionary Cross is planned in each of the eight dioceses of the country. Th ...
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  22 April 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops to the President and parliamentarians: "Assume your responsibility for which you were elected!" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The Peruvian Episcopal Conference, aware of the reality that Peruvians live in all corners of the country, makes an urgent appeal to their political leaders to assume the current situation with gr ...
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  22 April 2022
  ASIA/TIMOR LESTE - The Archbishop of Dili to the president: the Constitution must be respected, for a prosperous and peaceful nation Dili (Agenzia Fides) - "I hope that whoever is elected president returns to the state Constitution since it serves as a check on the country's capacity to operate properly", said Msgr. Dom Virgilio do Carmo da Silva SDB, ...
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  22 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - A march for peace, relaunching the Pope's appeal: "Stop! War is madness" Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - "After almost two months of bombs, killings, suffering and devastation, alarmed by the serious social consequences of this new war, it is time to give space and voice to peace and to do so it is ...
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  22 April 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - A path of unity and brotherhood: first meeting of the newly formed Bishops' Conference Nursultan (Agenzia Fides) - The newly formed Bishops' Conference of Central Asia will meet for the first time from April 26 to 30 in Nursultan, Kazakhstan. The new body was officially created in September, following a de ...
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  21 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The cry for help from the Yanomami communities and indigenous reservations Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Faithful to its mystical and prophetic commitment to the cry of the poor and the earth, the Special Pastoral Episcopal Commission for the Fight against Human Trafficking (CEPEETH) expresses it ...
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  21 April 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - In the first months of 2022, 127 episodes of violence against Christians in India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - At least 127 episodes of violence against Christians in India were recorded in the first 103 days of 2022: this is stated in a report released by the United Christian Forum (UCF), an ecumenica ...
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  21 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Cardinal Berhaneyesus: “Through the Cross of Christ we can conquer hatred with love” Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "Faith in the Resurrection of Christ gives every Christian and all humanity the strength to conquer all evil and sin", said Cardinal Berhaneyesus in the official message delivered to all pub ...
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  21 April 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - National missionary congress to conclude the Jubilee: sharing the gift of faith Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - On Easter Sunday, April 17, Archbishop Jose S. Palma of Cebu inaugurated in the Basilica “Sto. Nino de Cebu”, on the small island south of Manila, the Second Philippine Missionary Congress (NMC ...
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  21 April 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops: "The resurrection of Christ opens the horizon for hope: hope for a better life and country" San José (Agenzia Fides) - "After two years of Covid-19 pandemic, Catholics have again celebrated the mysteries of the faith in churches and in the streets. This fills us with joy and deep gratitude to the Lord because ...
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  20 April 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Violence in Arauca even at Easter: four people killed, including two children Arauca (Agenzia Fides) - "Every death afflicts us. But even more the death and injury of children, our children, who are completely innocent of this crazy wave of violence to which the region has been subjected, especial ...
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  20 April 2022
  ASIA/RUSSIA - Easter in Siberia: a community experiences the Eucharist and prays for peace Novosibirsk (Agenzia Fides) - An Easter lived in the intensity of prayer and with the "certain hope" of the Resurrection: this is how the community of the faithful of the diocese of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk, in ...