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  16 February 2022
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The synodal journey of small Christian communities that are open and welcoming Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "After eight years of service in Italy, I am joining the parish of the Sagrada Família, recently born in the district of Desvio da Barra, one of the many new anonymous suburbs of Luanda", says F ...
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  16 February 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Repam: spaces for the solidarity market in 91% of the local Churches in the Amazon Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - A survey by the Pan-Amazonian Eclesial Network (Repam-Brazil) has shown that 91% of the archdioceses, dioceses and prelatures of the Brazilian Amazon have permanent spaces for the marketing of ...
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  15 February 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Farewell to Mar Addai II, Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Ancient Church of the East mourns the death of its Patriarch Mar Addai II, who died on February 11, at the age of 74. With the death of its Patriarch, a new season opens and not without unce ...
• 15 February 2022
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Appointment of the Bishop of Chiayi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Norbert Pu, of the clergy of Chiayi, until now parish priest of Christ the King in Putzu, as bishop of the diocese of Chiayi, Taiwan. Msgr. Norbe ...
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  15 February 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "Honorary citizenship" to Pope John Paul II: encouragement and commitment for the entire country San José (Agenzia Fides) - On February 10, in an official act of the Legislative Assembly, the portrait of Saint John Paul II was unveiled to celebrate the Honorary Citizenship of Costa Rica that was granted to him. In ...
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  15 February 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A new rebellion is about to break out in South Kivu, according to local human rights activists Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A new rebellion is emerging in the plain of Ruzizi, in the province of South-Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This was reported in a note sent to Fides by the local NGO AC ...
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  15 February 2022
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Early elections: foreseeable transfer of power from father to son Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - The announced resignation of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, with the consequent early presidential elections and the foreseeable rise to power of the son of the same leader, Serd ...
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  15 February 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Citizens demand anti-conversion law to be stopped in Karnataka state New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Prominent citizens of all walks of life in India call for the anti-conversion law, approved in the Karnataka State Parliament on February 14, to be stopped, and for all anti-conversion laws in ...
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  15 February 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Churches and ethnic-territorial organizations request an urgent meeting with the government due to the dramatic situation in Chocó Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church, other Churches, ethnic-territorial organizations, and social organizations of Chocó and Western Antioquia, presented a letter to President Iván Duque in which they urgentl ...
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  15 February 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. - "Where nobody wants to go": Doctors with Africa CUAMM reaches more than 200,000 people Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Finally the last mile! We left the capital of the Central African Republic four years ago, where the country's only pediatric hospital is located. Here we have been called to carry out hard and ...
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  14 February 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Armenian Catholic Bishops committed to beginning the process of canonization of Cardinal Agagianian, Prefect of Propaganda Fide from 1960 to 1970 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Patriarchal Church of Cilicia of the Armenians, gathered in Synod in Rome from February 4 to 12 at the Pontifical Armenian College "in Urbe" under the chairmanship of Patriarch ...
• 14 February 2022
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Appointment of the Bishop of Goroka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father Francis has appointed Fr. Walenty Gryk, S.V.D., currently Coordinator of Formation and Secretary for the Missions of the Verbites in Papua New Guinea, as Bishop of t ...
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  14 February 2022
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Alarm on the increase in domestic homicides; the lack of religious sense and the detachment of children from their parents are among the possible causes Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "We have given birth to children of dot.com and globalization. In our time we used to stay with parents, we spent time with them, talking to them, they tell you stories and you stay togeth ...
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  14 February 2022
  AMERICA - "Querida Amazonia" two years later: CELAM reaffirms its commitment to the "four dreams" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the second anniversary of the publication of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation "Querida Amazonia" (February 2, 2020), "a source of joy and hope for the Church in Latin Am ...
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  14 February 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society condemns the lynching of a Muslim man accused of blasphemy Khanewal (Agenzia Fides) - "The violence and murders committed in the name of blasphemy by religious fanatics in Pakistan have become a serious threat to the state. Because of religious extremism in the province of Punja ...