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  29 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Orionini in Lviv: Missiles fell one kilometer from their monastery Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the afternoon of Saturday, March 26, Lviv was also bombarded around 3:30 p.m. Italian time. Some missiles fell just over a kilometer from the monastery of Orione (see Fides, 25/2/2022). The two ...
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  29 March 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Diocese of Campina Grande inaugurates new seminary Campina Grande (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Campina Grande, in the Brazilian state of Paraiba, inaugurated on Friday March 25th, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord, the Propedeutic Seminary "São José". Durin ...
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  29 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Third priest kidnapped in Nigeria in March Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Father Leo Raphael Ozigi is the third Catholic priest kidnapped in March in Nigeria. Fr. Ozigi, parish priest of the church of St Mary, in the village of Sarkin Pawa, in the local government are ...
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  29 March 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society to government: it is necessary to protect religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "It is encouraging that the killing of Pooja Kumari, a Hindu girl who resisted kidnapping, forced conversion and forced marriage, was widely condemned by civil society and by individuals on socia ...
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  29 March 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Prison Counseling: “We see the Holy Spirit at work within these walls” Korhogo (Agenzia Fides) - "Since 2009 I have been visiting the Korhogo prison in the north of Ivory Coast twice a week, where little by little a pastoral care for the spiritual accompaniment of the prisoners has develope ...
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  29 March 2022
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Pontifical Mission Societies collect donations for Ukraine Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - As a sign of prayer, awareness-raising and charity, the Pontifical Mission Societies (Catholic Mission) in Australia have launched a network of prayer and fundraising to respond to urgent request ...
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  29 March 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Alarm from the Latin Patriarchate: fake messages sent in the name of the Patriarch Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Someone, pretending to be the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, is sending e-mail messages to extort money from people who are unaware of the increasingly aggressive forms of deception implemented ...
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  29 March 2022
  AMERICA - Synodal path: Latin American churches want to prepare together for the Synod of Bishops Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of Latin American Bishops (CELAM), together with various ecclesial organizations of the continent, invites tomorrow, March 30th, to the first "Virtual Ecclesiastical Meeting of Latin ...
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  28 March 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Farewell to Cardinal Antonios Naguib, Patriarch Emeritus of the Catholic Copts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "He was a good pastor for all of us. And for me also a father. He ordained me a priest, and I was the first to receive episcopal ordination from him, in June 1978, when he had been bishop for a fe ...
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  28 March 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - A Protestant Christian pastor killed in Chhattisgarh Bijapur (Agenzia Fides) - A 50-year-old Protestant Christian Pastor was murdered by a group of masked men in the district of Bijapur, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The episode of violence, which took place on Marc ...
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  28 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Assault on the airport in Kaduna, capital of the homonymous State where two priests have been kidnapped in recent weeks Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Citizens of the State of Kaduna are tired of the government's rhetorical responses without concrete actions taken to protect lives and property", says the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN, a ...
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  28 March 2022
  AMERICA/CANADA - Historic trip of Canadian Bishops and indigenous delegates to meet Pope Francis Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of 32 Indigenous Elders, knowledge keepers, residential school survivors, and youth will journey together from across the country, left Canada to meet with Pope Francis in Rome. Thes ...
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  28 March 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Encourage collaboration between the sisters involved in the communication and dissemination of their work of evangelization Mombasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Nuns are an essential component of the Catholic Church in the particular missionary activity of evangelization", said Msgr. Martin Kivuva Musonde, Archbishop of Mombasa, during a seminar on the ...
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  28 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - A possible basis for peace talks Milan (Agenzia Fides) - "We have reached a point where the respect due to the thousands of dead and the pain of so many families, both Ukrainian and Russian, absolutely demand a peaceful solution. In the negotiations it ...
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  28 March 2022
  AMERICA - New Presidency of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazonia, CEAMA San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) - The first Ordinary Assembly of 2022 of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) was held in hybrid form (in presence and virtual) in Sao Paulo, Brazil on March 26 and 27. According to th ...