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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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  1 February 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "Myanmar can only be reborn through reconciliation" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a stalemate. Conflict broke our communities. Rebuilding trust and rebuilding our institutions will be a long arduous task. The conflict is becoming more brutal, the atrocities are more ...
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  1 February 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - "Do not be afraid": Catholic communities celebrate Vietnamese New Year Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not be afraid! Let us trust in God, hope will bring peace to every family, despite the difficulties of our social situation", said Bishop Joseph Dang Duc Nga of Da Nang, in the homily for the ...
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  1 February 2022
  AMERICA - Consecrated persons: "Searching for the Absolute: a spiritual therapy" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We are monks and nuns, members of contemplative orders, men and women religious dedicated to the apostolate, members of secular institutes and societies of apostolic life, consecrated virgins an ...
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  1 February 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - Lunar New Year as a sign of solidarity: Pope Francis and Bishop of Macerata send greetings Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I extend my cordial greetings, and express the wish that in the New Year everyone may enjoy peace, health and a peaceful and secure life. How beautiful it is when families find opportunities to ga ...
• 1 February 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: Congolese forces arrest Islamist terrorist from Kenya Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We hear with great interest the news of the arrest of the Islamist terrorist Salim Mohamed by the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on January 29 in the Batangi-Balilaye reg ...
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  1 February 2022
  ASIA/JORDAN - Religious leaders praise King Abdallah II's "message to the nation" on his 60th birthday Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders and representatives of the Churches and Ecclesial Communities of Jordan unanimously expressed their thanks and their full and unconditional consent to the "Message to the Nation" that ...
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  1 February 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Archbishop Centellas: "We must stop being adversaries and work together for the progress of our country, for the progress of each family" Sucre (Agenzia Fides) – To live the love that comes from God, which helps us to always seek forgiveness and reconciliation among all, to do good above all to those who are furthest away and to love our enemies: this wa ...
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  1 February 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Food, not weapons. Humiliation and trauma: the greatest tragedy of the witnesses of massacres in Tigray Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of the conflict in the Ethiopian region of Tigray, nothing is known about some parishes of the Eparchy of Adigrat. We know that foreign soldiers attacked several of them. Pe ...
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  31 January 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack in Peshawar: a Protestant pastor killed, another seriously injured Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - Lethal attack on two Protestant pastors in Peshawar, in the north of Pakistan. Yesterday afternoon, January 30, two men on a motorbike opened fire on the car with two Protestant pastors on the ...
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  31 January 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "united in the efforts of all peacemakers, let us walk with them" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - A message of consolation, closeness and accompaniment to people who suffer from violence and encouragement to all people of good will not to renounce the commitment to build peace, was sent ...
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  31 January 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A Dominican priest killed in the confessional Kon Tum (Agenzia Fides) - A Vietnamese Dominican priest, Father Joseph Tran Ngoc Thanh, was killed while listening to confessions and celebrating the Sacrament of Reconciliation in the diocese of Kon Tum. He was 41 years ...
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  31 January 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - The hopes and energy of the little 'kings of darkness', the blind children of Gaya Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - King of darkness, blind, danawo, koubey koy, in the Djerma language of the peoples who live in the westernmost part of Niger, are some of the insults that young blind students in the inclusive Cat ...
• 31 January 2022
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Sr. Marina Aguilar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 6, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Sister Marina Aguilar, of the Santa Mariana de Jesus Institute ( ...
• 31 January 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation of the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 30, 2022, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by His Exc. ...