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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 ...
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  3 February 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The young Akash Bashir, the first "Servant of God" in the history of the Church in Pakistan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The young Catholic Akash Bashir is the first "Servant of God" in the history of the Church of Pakistan. After the official announcement by the Catholic Church of Pakistan, great joy has spread in ...
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  3 February 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Education, pastoral care, liturgical and spiritual assistance for refugees in the north of the country Palabek (Agenzia Fides) - The Don Bosco Professional Center in the Palabek refugee camp trains students who would not be able to complete their education due to their status. Girls often become pregnant at a very young a ...
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  2 February 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - Pope Francis: may the Beijing Olympics "bring about a more fraternal world" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pope prays and hopes that the Beijing Olympics "will bring about a more fraternal world": this is what he said at the end of the General Audience held today in St. Peter's Square. The ...
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  2 February 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Pope's call for peace while people resist violence with 'silent strike' Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic faithful of Burma thank Pope Francis who, today, February 2, after the General Audience, said: "For a year now, we have been watching the violence in Myanmar with sorrow. I echo the ...
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  2 February 2022
  EUROPE/FRANCE - President Macron doubles French funding for Christian schools in the Middle East Paris (Agenzia Fides) - While the official visit of Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States of the Vatican Secretariat of State is underway, French President Emmanuel Macron announced in Pa ...
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  2 February 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians united in prayer: guaranteeing the protection of religious minorities Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The brutal attack on Anglican pastors, which took place in Peshawar on January 30, shook the entire Christian community in Pakistan. We strongly condemn the brutal murder of Reverend William Si ...
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  2 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop Kaigama: "Insecurity threatens the existence of universities" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The attacks by bandits and other criminal elements on the education sector do not only affect the safety of students and staff in schools but also directly or indirectly affect the survival of pr ...
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  2 February 2022
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Promoting and strengthening small Christian communities, true centers of Christian witness Dodoma (Agenzia Fides) - "Even the Apostles of Jesus used their Small Christian Communities (SCC) where the members lived in love and harmony to preach the Gospel. So, we as a Church need to uphold this principle of fami ...
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  2 February 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Like Pauline Jaricot, witnesses of Jesus in the mission": Missionary Childhood and Adolescence Day Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Pauline Jaricot, her life and her testimony have been the common thread of the animation of the National Day of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence (JONIAM) 2022 promoted and organized by the P ...