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  18 February 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Bishops: "It is time to stop wasting time in the instrumentalization of justice" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask that the reform process be started, once and for all, with the participation and consensus of all the institutions and active forces of the country", since "it is urgent to have an adequa ...
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  18 February 2022
  AMERICA - Archbishop Dal Toso: "Faith, missio ad gentes and universality, founding elements of the charism of the PMS" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the American continent took place on a virtual platform: the works were inaugurated by Msgr. Giampietro Dal To ...
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  17 February 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Monsignor Centellas: "Carnival should not be the occasion for a new wave of Covid-19" Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us maintain biosecurity measures, carnival is arriving, but the pandemic continues. Everyone's responsibility is to take care of themselves and respect health measures. Carnival should not be ...
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  17 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALI - Regional security uncertain after the withdrawal of French and European troops from Mali Paris (Agenzia Fides) - "There are no longer the political, operational and legal conditions" to continue our military missions in Mali. In a joint press release published this morning, February 17, France and its Europe ...
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  17 February 2022
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The Churches of North Africa continue their synodal journey under the sign of Charles De Foucauld Algiers - "For our Church in North Africa, the forthcoming canonization of Charles de Foucauld is an opportunity to rejoice and further deepen his insights". So write the members of the Bishops' Conference of the North A ...
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  17 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Kuwala FM: Catholic radio station, an important instrument of evangelization Limbe (Agenzia Fides) - "May this radio be an instrument of unity and help us to promote political and cultural tolerance in our country", said the Archbishop of Blantyre, Msgr. Thomas Msusa, on the occasion of the offic ...
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  17 February 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Petropolis launches urgent call for help after the storm Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask every Catholic Christian, men and women of good will, to share the pain of those who have lost what little they had, victims of the climate tragedy. We especially support the bereaved a ...
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  17 February 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - "Nahdlatul Ulama" relaunches its fundamental mission of a social, economic and cultural nature Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) remains the guardian of the Republic of Indonesia and Pancasila, two key themes of our national political platform", said the new leader of the organization, Yahya Cholil S ...
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  17 February 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - The Cathedral of Calcutta launches "food for all" initiative Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral of the Most Holy Rosary in the Archdiocese of Calcutta has launched the "Food for All" initiative with the support of the AnnBandhu foundation, a local non-governmental organizati ...
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  16 February 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis remembers Father Richard, killed in Congo on February 2, during his general audience Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of today's general audience, greeting the religious of the Order of Clerics Regular Minor, the Holy Father Francis said: "I am thinking of your young confrere, Father Richard, fr ...
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  16 February 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Lenten Campaign for a three-year period will be in support of vulnerable families affected by Covid-19 Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - This year the Fraternity Lenten Campaign will have the slogan "Chile reaches out to vulnerable families". After a process of national consultation with the dioceses, informs the note sent to Fi ...
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  16 February 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The grateful memory of the Coptic Martyrs of Libya is renewed and grows, seven years after their massacre Samalut (Agenzia Fides) - This year again, the Coptic Orthodox Church paid homage, with prayers and celebrations, to the memory of the workers who, seven years ago, were slaughtered and beheaded on a beach in Libya by ji ...
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  16 February 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Christian university students: "No" to meetings with the military, who commit violence against civilians Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Under pressure from the Myanmar army, the Myanmar Council of Churches, MCC, an ecumenical body that gathers 11 Protestant Churches published a statement in the state newspaper in recent days, inv ...
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  16 February 2022
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Appeal by Trocaire and other humanitarian NGOs: "Act now to save millions of Somalis from hunger" Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - In Somalia, one and a half million children, almost half of the population under five, are at risk of suffering from acute malnutrition due to the drought that has affected more than four mill ...
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  16 February 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - A statue of Christ demolished by order of the civil authorities in the state of Karnataka Kolar (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities of the district of Kolar, in the Indian state of Karnataka, have given the order to demolish a statue of Jesus Christ, erected 18 years ago in the village of Gokunte. As confirme ...