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  5 February 2022
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - A missionary: "There is no clarity on the failed coup: a destabilizing act" Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment the situation is calm, I would say that we are back to normal, if it were not only for the signs left around the place where the strange coup attempt took place. Yesterday, Februar ...
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  5 February 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The Salesian oratory, a place of proclamation of the Good News, in the midst of political and social tension Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - "Our oratory is proving to be a refuge for many: Catholics, Orthodox, but also many non-believers. Young people spread the word using social networks, sometimes even involving their families. And t ...
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  5 February 2022
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Star Singers are growing in French-speaking Switzerland Friborg (Agenzia Fides) - Nine new groups in 2021 alone and in total a number more than tripled in six years. These are the numbers of the Star Singers of French Switzerland who on February 2, the Feast of the Presentati ...
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  4 February 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Towards the "Nineveh Fast". Patriarch Sako: help us to rejoice in the salvation of others and to free ourselves from any rigorism Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The salvation promised by God is not reserved for particular ethnic groups, or for certain moral categories. His mercy embraces anyone who repents, and at times scandalizes those who claim to poss ...
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  4 February 2022
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - The shadow of drug trafficking in the attempt to attack the top management of Bissau? Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - An attempted coup by South American drug traffickers or is there more in the failed coup d'état in Guinea Bissau on February 1? Three days after the events that shocked the capital Bissau, it is ...
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  4 February 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Reduce the risk of maternal-infant mortality on the rise due to the indirect effects of Covid-19 Sofala (Agenzia Fides) - Beira, Dondo and Nhamatanda are the districts of the province of Sofala where the Healthy Newborn project aimed at reducing the risk of maternal-infant mortality was completed. "The work of these ...
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  4 February 2022
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Floods, dead and missing: the support of the Pontifical Mission Societies Quito (Agenzia Fides) - It is a painful toll in material and human terms that is being calculated in these hours in Ecuador. In recent days, continuous and intense rains have brought not only the capital but in general t ...
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  4 February 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - On July 2 the beatification of the Martyrs of Zenta San Ramón de la Nueva Orán (Agenzia Fides) - "It is with great joy that I am pleased to inform you that the Holy Father has announced the confirmation of the date of the beatification, for July 2, 2022 in the city of S ...
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  4 February 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians and civil society groups alongside the Muslim community in Gujarat Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) - More than 100 Christians and members of various civil society groups in the state of Gujarat, in western India, have urged the Prime Minister of the State to act against the "false propaganda" ...
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  4 February 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - New appeal by the Bishops for the elections of February 6: "Work for the common good" San José (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the general elections on February 6, the Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica has launched a new appeal so that "after the electoral process we work for the common good". The b ...
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  4 February 2022
  ASIA/KIRGHIZSTAN - The Gospel in music, with the youth of Central Asia Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - The young Catholic faithful of Kyrgyzstan are fully committed to the work of spreading the Gospel through music. In a note sent to Agenzia Fides, the parish community of St. Michael the Archange ...
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  3 February 2022
  AMERICA - Exclusion of poverty in the South American suburbs: new Report of the Dominican Missionaries Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The conditions of poverty, exploitation, inequalities in the peripheries in Latin America are at the center of the report of the "Misioneros Dominicos-Selvas Amazonicas" which is entitled "Sharin ...
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  3 February 2022
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - "Angolan democracy will be consolidated with this year's vote", hope the Bishops Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "2022 is the year of elections for the consolidation of our still young and weak democracy", said His Exc. Mgr. José Manuel Imbamba, Archbishop of Saurimo and President of the Bishops' Conferenc ...
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  3 February 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Murdered a 91-year-old Catholic: the community asks for justice Barisal (Agenzia Fides) - Malkam D'Costa, a 91-year-old Catholic, was murdered in his house in the village of Padrishbpur in Barisal, in south-central Bangladesh. According to the local Church, the man was drugged and wi ...
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  3 February 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite bishops: Lebanon risks being reduced to a "battlefield" for the wars of others Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanon must be saved from the danger of transforming itself into a Middle Eastern platform used by regional and global powers to conduct their proxy wars, the "proxy wars" fought on the ground ...