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  4 April 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - The right to protest is legitimate, but violence must be condemned Huancayo (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church recognizes the legitimate right to protest, protected by our political Constitution (Article 2), and condemns the violence expressed in the blocking of roads because it prevents the ...
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  4 April 2022
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Economic and social crisis: civil society calls for UN intervention Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "In Sri Lanka there is an extremely critical situation, which if unaddressed, could lead to a serious collapse of the State and also the development of anarchy within the society at large": this ...
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  4 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Peace is born from fraternity Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "An eloquent and evocative sign emerges from the march for peace held in Lviv: first of all, it was proposed by Catholic and lay associations that, although coming from different paths, have come t ...
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  2 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The peace march of Italian civil society arrives in Lviv Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "The ongoing conflict evokes the ghost of a past which was considered definitively archived. Instead the bombs, the destruction, the Ukrainian and Russian deaths, the devastation of recent weeks ha ...
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  2 April 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The commitment to the formation of the new generations of the Catholic Missionary Institute of Abidjan Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - ICMA, the Catholic Missionary Institute of Abidjan, was consecrated to Mary Our Lady of Evangelization last March 19 on the feast of St. Joseph. The rite at the end of the Holy Mass which conclu ...
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  2 April 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to Canadian indigenous peoples: the Christian faith cannot be transmitted in a way contrary to the faith itself Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christian faith cannot be confessed, witnessed and communicated to others with methods and tools that are foreign and contrary to the dynamics of the faith itself. Pope Francis repeated this in h ...
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  2 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY: "BACK TO THE COMIGI: Mission restarts from the future", the Missio Giovani conference kicks off on April 22 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting with the Holy Father will open the awaited appointment of the VI edition of CO.MI.GI., the Youth Missionary Conference which returns in presence this year after the "forced pause" dicta ...
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  2 April 2022
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - What does God want from the young people of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan? Samarkand (Agenzia Fides) - Meeting the young Catholics of Central Asia, understanding their spiritual needs, giving them the proclamation of Christ: these are the objectives of the diocesan meeting of young people from ...
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  2 April 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "Living the Gospel and accompanying young people": inauguration of a new community of the Missionaries of Mary Garoua (Agenzia Fides) - "For some years we have been planning to open a new community of the Missionaries of Mary in Cameroon: we will live in the midst of a Muslim majority people. Jesus, Light of the nations, wants to ...
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  2 April 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - New "men of the peripheries" in the Church of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh city (Agenzia Fides) - Deacons are "gatherers in the Lord's rice field", Samaritans, prophets, pastors at the service of the ecclesial community in the Asian country. The gift of 61 new deacons revitalizes th ...
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  2 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Let's take care of our Common Home!" theme of the first meeting of Indigenous Ecology Belem de Solimões (Agenzia Fides) - The first Indigenous Ecology Meeting was held from March 27 to 30, 2022, organized by the Association of Artistic and Cultural Development of the Indigenous Village of Belém do Solim ...
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  1 April 2022
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Conference of Missionary Childhood of Europe on the theme of “holiness” Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - After four years of "break" due to the pandemic, CEME - an organization that brings together all the Secretariats of Missionary Childhood of the countries of Europe - met at the ecumenical center ...
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  1 April 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: Christians and Muslims should live Lent and Ramadan as a time of fasting and healing Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - This year, the Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins on the evening of Saturday, April 2, which coincides with the final weeks of Christian Lent, during which Christians prepare for Easter, the fea ...
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  1 April 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Forgotten war in Cabo Delgado: number of internally displaced persons increases Maputo (Agenza Fides) - The population continues to flee from Cabo Delgado, the northern Mozambican province where an insurrection led by armed jihadist groups has been ongoing since 2017. According to the latest report ...
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  1 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - "Don Bosco for Ukraine": the Salesians of Brazil launch a solidarity campaign Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment of the Salesians to the population victims of the war, in Ukraine and beyond, continues at all levels. The Salesians remain committed in the field, in direct relief to the refugees, ...