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  28 January 2022
  VATICAN - World Leprosy Day: A total of 532 facilities for leprosy patients worldwide run by the Catholic Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - According to the latest "Statistical Yearbook of the Church", the Catholic Church operates 532 institutions for lepers worldwide, of which 201 are in Africa, 201, 41 in America, 269 in Asia ...
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  27 January 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - The Missionary Year of Social Commitment opens in the Archdiocese of Cusco Cusco (Agenzia Fides) - On January 23, Sunday of the Word of God, Msgr. Richard Daniel Alarcón, Metropolitan Archbishop of Cusco, officially opened the "Missionary Year of Social Commitment" in the Archdiocese. In his h ...
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  27 January 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Poverty, disorganization and music: the mission among the Pygmies is beautiful and full of stimuli Monassao (Agenzia Fides) - "The work of the missionaries here does not consist only in pastoral care strictly understood, such as catechesis and liturgy, but also in helping people to stand up, to invest in the future", ...
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  27 January 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians, called to sow the Gospel and to be "light for the nation" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Indian Christians are committed to updating the spirit and letter of our Constitution, so that justice, freedom, equality, diversity and fraternity may be a reality for all. Above all, to ens ...
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  27 January 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The contribution of the Church to the formation of new generations through education Gagnoa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Ivory Coast, gathered at the 120th Plenary Assembly, are debating these days on the centrality of the new generations and on a global educational project that looks at the inte ...
• 27 January 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - 5,000-plus deaths under Ethiopia’s Tigray blockade Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 5,000 people died of malnutrition in just part of Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray region over a four-month period last year, including more than 350 young children, a new report by the ...
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  27 January 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - Erdogan confirms: new regulations and new elections for the Foundations of non-Muslim communities Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The process for the publication of the new rules on the functioning of the Turkish Foundations linked to non-Muslim communities is almost complete, which will soon allow these organizations to re ...
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  27 January 2022
  OCEANIA/TONGA - Clouds of ash, lack of electricity and psychological trauma: the response of the Church Tonga (Agenzia Fides) - "There are ashes everywhere. Electricity is not stable. There is still no phone service for the more distant islands. There is no Internet connection. One of the main problems is the lack of water ...
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  27 January 2022
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Massacre of Jesuits: Film reconstructs what happened in 1989 and what is still happening today Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of November 16, 1989, in the midst of the Salvadoran civil war, six Jesuit priests, university professors and two office workers were murdered at the José Simeón Cañas Central A ...
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  26 January 2022
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Archbishop and Minister: working together for reconciliation and reunification of the Koreas Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church and the Korean government intend to work together for peace, reconciliation and the reunification of the Korean peninsula: this was confirmed by the Archbishop of Seoul, Msgr. ...
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  26 January 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The "Pact for Life and for Brazil" supports the vaccination of children and young people: right to life and health Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The signatories of the "Pact for Life and for Brazil" support the vaccination of children and young people, as is happening in several countries, as a sign of responsibility and a deep sense of ...
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  26 January 2022
  AMERICA/HAITI - The recent earthquake do not stop the reconstruction work of the Camillian missionaries Jeremie (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the anniversary of the earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010 (see Fides, 13/1/2010), causing more than 250,000 victims and one and a half million homeless, on January 24, 2022 a ...
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  26 January 2022
  OCEANIA/TONGA - The "sister churches" of Asia Pacific help Tonga Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Churches of the Asia Pacific area, especially the Catholic communities in Australia and New Zealand, have taken action to help the population of Tonga, affected by the eruption of the underwa ...
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  26 January 2022
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - May Christians be guardians of the environment, in solidarity with those who fight against the voracity of fire and drought Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask our Christian brothers to be custodians of the environment, we ask for solidarity and empathy with the authorities and volunteers who fight against the voracity of fire and drought, abo ...
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  26 January 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Catholic bishops to the Heads of other Churches: our synodal journey needs your experience and your advice Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - In the synodal journey that has just begun, the Catholic Church of the Holy Land "listens" to the wisdom and experience of the other Churches present in the land of Jesus, and for this reason ...