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• 22 February 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Bishop of Mamfe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Rev. Aloysius Fondong Abangalo, of the clergy of Buéa, bishop of the Diocese of Mamfe (Cameroon), currently teacher and formator at the St. Thomas Aqu ...
• 22 February 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Coadjutor Bishop of Mawlamyine Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Rev. Maurice Nyunt Wai, of the clergy of Pathein, currently parish priest of the Sacred Heart Church, Myaungmya, as Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of ...
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  22 February 2022
  ASIA/THAILAND - An exhibition of the Foreign Missions of Paris on the history of evangelization Paris (Agenzia Fides) - The seeds of evangelization in Thailand, planted three and a half centuries ago by missionaries sent from France, by the Society for Foreign Missions of Paris (MEP), in response to the invitation ...
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  22 February 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - "Aguchita", the missionary martyr who gave her life for the Amazon and for the human rights of its peoples Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Sister María Agustina de Jesús Rivas López, known by all as "Aguchita", the Peruvian nun murdered on September 27, 1990 by the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso and whose martyrdom in odium fidei ...
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  22 February 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Israeli reassurances: the status of the Mount of Olives will not be changed without consulting the Churches Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli project to include the Mount of Olives area in the Jerusalem Walls Natural Park "will not be carried out without the participation of all interested parties, including, of course, ...
• 22 February 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Students and schools targeted in English-speaking separatist regions Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - There is also a Catholic school among the schools attacked in recent weeks in the southwestern region of Cameroon. On February 8 and 11, armed groups burned down two schools, respectively the p ...
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  22 February 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - State officials interrupt Mass celebrated by the Archbishop of Hanoi Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholics of the Archdiocese of Hanoi were surprised and shocked when government officials entered a church in the province of Hoa Binh and interrupted the Mass celebrated by Msgr. Joseph Vu V ...
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  22 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - Street children rediscover dignity, hospitality and love at the Foyer totonn Gilles Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "With the street children I met in Niamey, we organized a cleaning campaign in a field near our house", says Gilles, a Nigerian journalist who spends most of his time with these young victims in ...
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  22 February 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Fires have been ravaging Corrientes and Misiones for weeks: appeal from Caritas, pilgrimage of the Virgin of Itati Corrientes (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the seriousness of the situation caused by the numerous fires that affect the northeastern region of Argentina, in particular the provinces of Misiones and Corrientes, Caritas Arge ...
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  21 February 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic communities are living the new pastoral year intensely, in a synodal spirit Rome (Agenzia Fides) - " The "Year of God", which was celebrated in 2021, will be followed in the Archdiocese of Beijing by the "Year of the Son of God" announced by Archbishop Joseph Li Shan in his Christmas message. Th ...
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  21 February 2022
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - A new church in Phnom Penh, the result of the commitment of the faithful Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic parish in the Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh has completed the construction of the new Church of Saint Joseph. As Fides learns, Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler, at the head of th ...
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  21 February 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Israeli project to incorporate the Mount of Olives into a National Park. Heads of Churches: the plan appears to serve an ideological agenda Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem, is at the center of a project initiated by the Israeli authorities to expand the boundaries of a National Park to encompass ecclesiastical land located in th ...
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  21 February 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Malnourished children, exhausted population, destroyed livestock: the environmental crisis worsens the living conditions of the population Ginir (Agenzia Fides) - "People are starving in our area and the situation continues to deteriorate rapidly. My health colleagues say that the increase in cases of acute malnutrition among children will only get worse. T ...
• 21 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Archbishop of Onitsha rejects the statements of a religious that risk fomenting ethnic hatred Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church is not a tribal institution and should", says His Exc. Mgr. Valerian Maduka Okeke, Archbishop of Onitsha, in a statement in which the Archdiocese warns the faithful that Fr. E ...
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  21 February 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Catholic community does not forget the disabled, marginalized by society Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - We must show affection and take care of people who live with disabilities; we must also empower them and continue to support them in the challenges of their life. This is the main reason why we ...