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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 ...
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  27 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Tigray's health system has completely collapsed: local doctors try to "improvise" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - More than a month after the humanitarian ceasefire declared by the Ethiopian government under Prime Minister Abiy on March 24 (see Fides, 25/3/2022), which had raised great hopes among the a ...
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  27 April 2022
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Waiting for truth and justice: the Church commemorates the Easter massacres and visits the Pope Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - For three years we have been asking the government for truth and justice after the Easter 2019 massacres. For three years we have stood by the victims and their families. Since our cry and that ...
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  27 April 2022
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Journalists: "their task is to seek and communicate the truth, communicate hope and life to our people" Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "The journalist's task is to seek and communicate the truth, both through facts and investigative reports, through the interpretation of events or through his comments. The search for the trut ...
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  27 April 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Celebration of the 500th anniversary: a new impetus for evangelization Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - From the conclusion of the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines on April 24th in Cebu, the Philippine Church receives new impetus for the mission ...
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  26 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Representatives of the US Pontifical Mission Societies visit the country: "We want to share suffering and pain" Kyev (Agenzia Fides) - In Ukraine, the Pontifical Mission Societies of the United States not only want to provide material aid, but also to share the suffering of the people and their pain: with this spirit, the National ...
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  26 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A community farm to bring hope to families and children Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Drought and rising prices are causing health problems in Ethiopia due to malnutrition among the Ethiopian population and affecting 70% of families in the city of Emdibir: aware of these diff ...
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  26 April 2022
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdallah II reaffirms royal responsibility for protecting Christian and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The Hashemite dynasty of Jordan will continue to exercise its historical responsibility for the protection and protection of the Christian and Islamic Holy Places of Jerusalem with even more vigor ...
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  26 April 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Dialogue, cooperation and positive developments in relations between the Holy See and Vietnam Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Relations between Vietnam and the Holy See are on the right track. On April 22, at the Central Government Office, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh received Undersecretary for Relations with th ...
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  26 April 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Minister for Religious Affairs wants to invite Pope Francis Amboina (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia invites Pope Francis to visit the country: Minister of Religious Affairs Menag RI Yaqut Cholil Qoumas informed the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Pietro Pioppo and the Indonesian Catholic ...
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  26 April 2022
  AFRICA /D.R.CONGO - Vocation and priestly mission, gift and mystery to be preserved Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The priestly vocation is a gift and a mystery: this is what the Archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu said in his address to the more than six hundred priests who gathered t ...
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  25 April 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Pope's visit: decisive in finding a new peace agreement Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent months we have feared a return to war in South Sudan, especially when Vice-President Machar suspended his participation in the negotiations on responsibilities for the implementation o ...
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  25 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - A march to stop the war and its escalation: take the word out of arms and give it back to politics Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I greet and thank the participants in the extraordinary Perugia-Assisi March for peace and fraternity, which is taking place today; as well as those who have joined, giving life to similar events ...
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  25 April 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 9 Coptic Christians who ended up in prison for protests over delays in the reconstruction of their church were released for Easter Samalut (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, April 23, the 9 Coptic Christians who had been imprisoned since January 30 for having participated in the previous days in the protests carried out by some Christian residents of th ...
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  25 April 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Bishop of Almaty: "The Pope's visit to this land will bear many fruits" Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The Easter season brings with it many reasons for joy: the first is the fact that, after two years of pandemic, we were finally able to celebrate Holy Week and Divine Mercy Sunday under normal ...