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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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  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
  ASIA/INDIA - A statue of Christ demolished by order of the civil authorities in the state of Karnataka Kolar (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities of the district of Kolar, in the Indian state of Karnataka, have given the order to demolish a statue of Jesus Christ, erected 18 years ago in the village of Gokunte. As confirme ...
• 16 February 2022
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Appeal by Trocaire and other humanitarian NGOs: "Act now to save millions of Somalis from hunger" Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - In Somalia, one and a half million children, almost half of the population under five, are at risk of suffering from acute malnutrition due to the drought that has affected more than four mill ...
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  16 February 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Christian university students: "No" to meetings with the military, who commit violence against civilians Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Under pressure from the Myanmar army, the Myanmar Council of Churches, MCC, an ecumenical body that gathers 11 Protestant Churches published a statement in the state newspaper in recent days, inv ...
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  16 February 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The grateful memory of the Coptic Martyrs of Libya is renewed and grows, seven years after their massacre Samalut (Agenzia Fides) - This year again, the Coptic Orthodox Church paid homage, with prayers and celebrations, to the memory of the workers who, seven years ago, were slaughtered and beheaded on a beach in Libya by ji ...
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  16 February 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Lenten Campaign for a three-year period will be in support of vulnerable families affected by Covid-19 Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - This year the Fraternity Lenten Campaign will have the slogan "Chile reaches out to vulnerable families". After a process of national consultation with the dioceses, informs the note sent to Fi ...
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  16 February 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis remembers Father Richard, killed in Congo on February 2, during his general audience Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of today's general audience, greeting the religious of the Order of Clerics Regular Minor, the Holy Father Francis said: "I am thinking of your young confrere, Father Richard, fr ...
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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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  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
  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
  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 ...
• 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
  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 ...
• 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 ...