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  7 February 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros praises the directive of President al Sisi: to erect a church in every new urban settlement Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In the intense urban development program launched in Egypt, each new urban district built in compliance with the guidelines established by the civil authorities will also have its own church, in a ...
• 7 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped in Kaduna Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria: Fr. Joseph Shekari, parish priest in Ikulu Fari (Chawai, Kauru) in Kaduna State in northern Nigeria. According to initial reports, armed men ...
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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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  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 ...
• 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
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Justice for the murder of Moïse Kabagambe: "barbarism becomes normal when it involves the poor" Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - Justice for the murder of Moïse Kabagambe, identifying the perpetrators of this "unacceptable and brutal act with which they cowardly took the life of this 24-year-old", is what the Nati ...
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  5 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Infants and children in dire need exacerbated by cyclones and tropical Chikwawa (Agenzia Fides) - Basic necessities, essential goods for people who have lost their homes, survival kits for babies and children, are some of the priorities urgently needed by the thousands of people affected by ...
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  5 February 2022
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Justice and Peace: serious economic and social problems afflict Nicaraguans, pushing them to emigrate Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Justice and Peace Commission of the Archdiocese of Managua, in a message addressed to the "holy people of God and people of good will", underlines that "among the serious economic and social ...
• 5 February 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Today the funeral of Fr. Richard Masivi Kasereka, murdered in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of Fr. Richard Masivi Kasereka, a Congolese religious of the Order of the Clerics Regular Minor (Adorno Fathers), assassinated on February 2 in a town in the east of the Democratic ...
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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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  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/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/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
  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
  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 ...