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  8 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - "We will stay as long as we have food" say villagers subjected to violence by jihadists Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We will stay as long as we have something to eat", with these words the Italian missionary Father Mauro Armanino of the Society for Africa Missions quotes farmers from the area of Bomoanga, on t ...
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  8 February 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops call for a joint effort to achieve political stability Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the political crisis that Peru has been going through for some time, in addition to the third wave of the Covid 19 pandemic, the ethical, moral and ecological crisis, the Bishops of the ...
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  8 February 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Bishop's Coadjutor of Bac Ninh: pastoral care under the sign of mission Bac Ninh (Agenzia Fides) - "Two aspects that will characterize my pastoral project are contained in my episcopal coat of arms: they are the image of the flame and the rice flower, present and implicit. The flame represen ...
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  8 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The parish priest kidnapped on Sunday, February 6 released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Joseph Danjuma Shekari, Nigerian priest kidnapped on the night of Sunday, February 6, has regained his freedom (see Fides, 7/2/2022). According to a statement from the diocese of Kafanchan ...
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  8 February 2022
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Eucharistic Adoration for the unity of the Church and the unification of Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The unity of the Church, the spiritual well-being of the faithful in the difficult time of the pandemic, the reconciliation and unification of the Korean peninsula have one source: Eucharistic Ado ...
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  7 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped in Kaduna Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria: Fr. Joseph Shekari, parish priest in Ikulu Fari (Chawai, Kauru) in Kaduna State in northern Nigeria. According to initial reports, armed men ...
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  7 February 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros praises the directive of President al Sisi: to erect a church in every new urban settlement Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In the intense urban development program launched in Egypt, each new urban district built in compliance with the guidelines established by the civil authorities will also have its own church, in a ...
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  7 February 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Demolition of Holy Cross Social Center in Karnataka Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A group of radical Hindu militants destroyed the St. Anthony's Holy Cross Center, a Catholic place of prayer and hospitality, built 40 years ago in Urandady Gudde-Panjimogaru, near the city fr ...
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  7 February 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A special place for ethnic minorities in the synodal journey Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - In the synodal journey that the Church has undertaken, the indigenous Friars, the Afros, the Palenqueros, the Raizales and the Roma, have a special place: this is highlighted by the section "Eth ...
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  7 February 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Education is the key to the development of a society: the emerging role of Catholic schools Mombasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest gift we can give to any person is not a big house or a piece of land, but rather education" declared the Archbishop of Mombasa, Msgr. Martin Kivuva, addressing the Sisters of the C ...
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  7 February 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Drugs kill: we cannot afford to ignore this tragedy" exhort the Bishops of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Yes, drugs kill: we cannot afford to ignore this tragedy and so many others that happen every day. We are deeply moved by the deaths of young people and adults as a result of drug use, we ...
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  5 February 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Today the funeral of Fr. Richard Masivi Kasereka, murdered in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of Fr. Richard Masivi Kasereka, a Congolese religious of the Order of the Clerics Regular Minor (Adorno Fathers), assassinated on February 2 in a town in the east of the Democratic ...
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  5 February 2022
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Justice and Peace: serious economic and social problems afflict Nicaraguans, pushing them to emigrate Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Justice and Peace Commission of the Archdiocese of Managua, in a message addressed to the "holy people of God and people of good will", underlines that "among the serious economic and social ...
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  5 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Infants and children in dire need exacerbated by cyclones and tropical Chikwawa (Agenzia Fides) - Basic necessities, essential goods for people who have lost their homes, survival kits for babies and children, are some of the priorities urgently needed by the thousands of people affected by ...
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  5 February 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Justice for the murder of Moïse Kabagambe: "barbarism becomes normal when it involves the poor" Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - Justice for the murder of Moïse Kabagambe, identifying the perpetrators of this "unacceptable and brutal act with which they cowardly took the life of this 24-year-old", is what the Nati ...