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  23 February 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Testimony of a lay missionary about her vocation Bondoukou (Agenzia Fides) - "The vocation to be a lay missionary must be seen as a grace to be shared not only in words but through concrete, material and spiritual acts, with joy, sacrifice, conviction and a lot of pass ...
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  23 February 2021
  AMERICA - Beginning of the journey in view of the Ecclesial Assembly next November Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Latin American churches are starting to prepare for the first ecclesiastical assembly of Latin America and the Caribbean, which is to take place from November 21 to 28 in the Guadalupe Basil ...
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  23 February 2021
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "Looking to history while thanking God, looking to the future confident in his power": one hundred years of the Ecclesiastical Province San José (Agenzia Fides) - "It is clear that the Catholic faith of our people has been a fundamental factor in building the identity that defines us in the world, as a nation that fights for peace, democracy, social jus ...
• 23 February 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Italian ambassador killed in kidnapping attempt: "He was very close to the missionaries" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luca Attanasio, assassinated yesterday, February 22nd "was close to the missionary world working in the east of the country". ...
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  23 February 2021
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Zong Huaide died at the age of 100: he devoted himself to prayer and charitable works Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 5, 2021 at 8 p.m., His. Exc. Mgr. Joseph Zong Huaide, Bishop emeritus of Sanyuan, in the province of Shaanxi (Mainland China) died. He was born on June 16, 1920 in a village in ...
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  22 February 2021
  VATICAN - Recognition of the heroic virtues of three Italian missionaries who died of Ebola in Congo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 20, the Holy Father Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a number of decrees, including those concerning the recognition of the heroic virt ...
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  22 February 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Bishops to the government: elections, an opportunity to resolve the country's crisis Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Less than nine months before the general elections in Nicaragua, the Bishops who are members of the Bishops' Conference (CEN) united in the call of the population asking the government of Presid ...
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  22 February 2021
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Missionaries' warning: young people risk losing their faith due to the pandemic Kikolo (Agenzia Fides) - "Unfortunately, the pandemic almost killed the faith of the youth of the Parish. Few are now those who participate in the life of the Church and in the sacraments". Father Ulrich Houenahin Kossiv ...
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  22 February 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appeal of Catholic Bishops: peace and reconciliation through dialogue Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - A heartfelt appeal for "reconciliation through dialogue" was launched by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Myanmar in a document signed by all the Bishops of the 16 Burmese dioceses. The appeal ...
• 22 February 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A Catholic church in northern Nigeria burned and destroyed Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Kaduna state, northern Nigeria, was set on fire. According to the authorities, the perpetrators are members of an "armed gang". The armed men entered the ...
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  22 February 2021
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - "Catechesis and Mission": advanced training seminar aims to initiate dialogue Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 650 people attended a one-week training seminar on “Catechesis and Mission” organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies in America with the support of the Society of Latin Ame ...
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  22 February 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Syrian Catholic Archbishop Nathanael: here is the living Church that will welcome Pope Francis Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian community which will welcome Pope Francis during his apostolic visit to Iraq "is poor, of reduced dimensions, without political influence, but it certainly constitutes a living Churc ...
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  20 February 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist monks intervene in negotiations with the army Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Bhamo Sayadaw Bhaddanta Kumara, the monk who represents the top of the Burmese Buddhist community (State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee) officially asks for dialogue between the parties in order to ...
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  20 February 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops to the authorities: the most vulnerable people must receive the vaccine first Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask public authorities to facilitate the procedures for the purchase and administration of vaccines, respecting the established criteria, so that the most vulnerable people receive it first, a ...
• 20 February 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Donation from the Montfort Missionaries for the benefit of patients affected by Covid-19 in Malawi Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "As Church, we could not leave government alone but join hands to help especially those suffering from Covid-19", he says. Mgr. Boniface Tamanimì, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Blantyre, ...