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  8 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Course for missionaries who will work in Brazil begins again in presence, "current and indispensable for evangelizing action" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Intercultural Training Course (CENFI) organized by the Missionary Cultural Center (CCM), an organization linked to the Brazilian Episcopal Conference, has 22 participants, priests, men and ...
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  8 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The Order of Malta operations to help refugees have been extended kyiv (Agenzia Fides) - With more than 12 million people in difficulty in Ukraine, of whom 6.5 million are internally displaced, the network of the Order of Malta is intensifying its aid operations both in Ukraine and in ...
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  7 April 2022
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The National Director of the PMS: "Sri Lanka needs justice and transparency" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "Our silence is a request for transparency and justice: people need justice. The biggest problem in Sri Lanka today is corruption. The population has lost faith in the political class and its le ...
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  7 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We will kill train passengers if the government does not meet our demands" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are not interested in money, the federal government knows what we are asking for". In a video message posted yesterday, April 6, the group that attacked the train along the Abuja-Kaduna line o ...
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  7 April 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Help children and young people to know better the message of Christ celebrated during Holy Week Maracay (Agenzia Fides) - Msgr. Enrique Parravano, Bishop of Maracay, promotes the "Mosesan" project, Holy Week Movement, an initiative that aims to help children and adolescents aged 8 to 15 to better understand the mes ...
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  7 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Peace and humanitarian aid to avert a preventable famine that is wiping out the population of Tigray Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "The aid that manages to arrive, following the military truce promoted by Prime Minister Abiy (see Fides, 25/3/2022), is not changing the lives of the besieged people and all the services of bas ...
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  7 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Welcoming and supporting others, against the horror of war Zhytomyr (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the ongoing war and all the difficulties, they continue to accompany and work for and with the population". This is what Father Michal Wocial, Salesian missionary of the Poland-Krakow ...
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  7 April 2022
  AMERICA/CUBA - Vocations, families, synodal journey among the topics addressed by the Bishops in the Plenary Assembly Havana (Agenzia Fides) - From March, 28 to 31, the 159th Plenary Assembly of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba was held at the Casa de Retiros y Convivencias de El Cobre, which was attended by almost all the Bi ...
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  7 April 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Silsilah" movement: "Ramadan, time to deepen faith and dialogue" Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - "This year the month of Ramadan in the Philippines coincides with the period of the electoral campaign for national and local elections; we also live it in conjunction with the alarming period ...
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  6 April 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops: God bless the visit of Pope Francis to Lebanese land Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Maronite bishops "express their joy at the news of the visit of Pope Francis to Lebanon, which is on the agenda for the month of June". They do so at the end of the meeting which saw them me ...
• 6 April 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Appointment of the Bishop of Kokstad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Fr. Thulani Victor Mbuyisa, C.M.M., currently Superior General of the Mariannhill Missionaries as Bishop of the Diocese of Kokstad (South Africa). Hi ...
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  6 April 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "We want to go home but we fear for our safety": the cry of Central African refugees in Cameroon to Cardinal Nzapalainga Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - More than 20,000 people, Central African refugees living in Gado-Badjeri, 26 km from Garoua-Boulai, on the road to Bertoua in Cameroon, have expressed their strong desire to return to the Central ...
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  6 April 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops: "crises cannot be resolved with the suspension of rights" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Monsignor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, President of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference, asked the government of President Pedro Castillo to cancel the decree on the prohibition of social mobility (curfew ...
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  6 April 2022
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The community of Yalgo in shock after the kidnapping of an American missionary Kaya (Agenzia Fides) - "The diocese of Kaya joins in prayer for the release of Sister Suellen Tennyson, kidnapped on the night of Monday 4 to Tuesday 5 April 2022 in the parish of Yalgo, 110 kilometers from Kaya, the cap ...
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  6 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Online lessons for Salesian schools and activities for young people, while assistance to the population continues Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the war and all the difficulties, the Salesians in Ukraine continue to offer education and work for young people, putting the needs of others first and sharing every resource and every good ...