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  9 February 2022
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Proclaiming Christ in Europe": meeting of the European Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Proclaiming Christ in Europe, from apostolic times to the third millennium" is the theme of the speech by Father Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen, O.F.M. Conv., Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionar ...
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  9 February 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Meeting of indigenous and peasant catechists: synodality experienced by catechists and their communities Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The 19th meeting of indigenous and peasant catechists promoted by the Pastoral Care for New Evangelization and Catechesis of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM), will be held from 21 to 2 ...
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  9 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The contribution of the Catholic University Alumni geared to improve special needs education Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We have resolved that this year, we should assist the project that the University embarked on in buying materials for the special needs laboratory at the main campus in Nguludi", said Nohara C ...
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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 ...
• 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/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
  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 ...
• 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
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Human rights and basic needs: it is an emergency for the most destitute populations hit by tropical storms Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply concerned about the people of the southern and central districts devastated by the recent tropical storm Ana", said the President of the Bishops' Conference of Malawi (ECM), Mgr. ...
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  8 February 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishop of Buenaventura receives death threats: “Today he is the victim” Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned for the life of Bishop Rubén Darío Jaramillo of Buenaventura, who, as a good pastor and with the pain of his people in his heart, denounced what was happening in th ...
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  8 February 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako teaches Iraqi politicians a lesson, quoting Imam Ali Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law, is considered by the Shiites to be the first Imam. Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako quoted the Muslim scholar as saying at the beginning of his ...
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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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  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/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
  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 ...