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  20 April 2022
  AFRICA - The Comboni Missionaries: 150 years of love for the mission Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "The Congregation of the Pious Mothers of Nigrizia, now known as the Comboni Missionary Sisters, took its first steps on January 1, 1872. The day before, Maria Caspi had crossed the threshold of ...
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  20 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Conflicts over land, water, work: they often do not find space in the media Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The annual report prepared by the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) registered 1,768 conflicts in 2021, 13.92% less than in 2020. These are situations related to land, water and labor rights, whic ...
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  20 April 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Pope in Kazakhstan to give "senim" and say that peace is possible Milan (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pope's trip to Kazakhstan is very important news and has many links with the current crisis". This is what Father Edoardo Canetta, former Apostolic Vicar of Central Asia, told Fides, a missio ...
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  20 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Intentional mass starvation": humanitarian truce in Tigray is at stake Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans are dying of hunger. The humanitarian truce that began on March 24 is already at stake. The government has allowed only one aid convoy to enter Tigray, the ...
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  20 April 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Franciscan religious killed in church after the Easter vigil La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "Given the news of the robbery in the convent of San Francisco in the city of Santa Cruz and the violent murder of Friar Wilberth Daza Rodas OFM, our Church is in mourning and dismayed by the eve ...
• 20 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Resignation of bishop of Warri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - on April 18, 2022 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Warri, Nigeria, presented by Bishop John Oke’ Afareha. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 20/4/2022) ...
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  13 April 2022
  EUROPE - The peace movement looks to Russia Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - "After the peace march in Lviv, where we went to bring aid and families in need back to Italy, we are thinking of Russia. A new entity is being formed, "StoptheWarNow", which intends to gather al ...
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  13 April 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: may the light of Christ's Easter illuminate the darkness of these times of war Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - During Easter, which this year partly coincides with Ramadan (the month of fasting and prayer in the Islamic calendar), "every believer in God, and in particular Christians, must reject the dead ...
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  13 April 2022
  VATICAN - War seen from a pediatric hospital is even more sacrilegious Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A very small gesture of fraternity for all those who, throughout the world, spend Easter days in hospital. For those who are experiencing a difficult time. With a special thought for childr ...
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  13 April 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Bishops: "May Easter be an invitation to conversion to peace" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us renew our commitment to reject any acts of evil, including acts of war, conflicts and any actions, which will lead to the senseless loss of lives and the creation of needless crises". This ...
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  13 April 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Bishop of Karaganda "The example of Veronica, icon of Christ, to be reborn to new hope" Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "Prayer changes hearts and converts them to God so that they can welcome the gift of the Spirit, who with love heals the world of hatred and grants peace. We invite all the faithful to serious ...
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  13 April 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - The synodal journey of the sisters of Leshan, in the footsteps of the "Woman among women" Leshan (Agenzia Fides) - In the footsteps of "Woman among women", the sisters of the diocesan Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Our Lady, of the diocese of Kiating (today Leshan), in the province of Sichuan in mainland ...
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  13 April 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Artemide Zatti, the first Salesian Brother, consecrated, but not a priest - to be proclaimed a Saint: a message of hope Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 April 2022, during the Audience granted to His Eminence Most Reverend Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Supreme Pontiff authorized the same ...
• 13 April 2022
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, rev. Jean Claude Rakotoarisoa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 14, 2021, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Jean Claude Rakotoarisoa, of the diocesan clergy of T ...
• 13 April 2022
  AFRICA/SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 10, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Santo Gaba Samuel, of the diocesan clergy of Tombura-Ya ...