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  6 February 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Open letter from the bishops to the members of Congress: "Do not turn your back, listen to the cry of all the Peruvian people" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Congress has rejected a new bill to bring forward general elections to the end of this year, which also included a referendum on the creation of a Constituent Assembly. After this new ...
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  6 February 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Doctors with Africa Cuamm: peace also passes through taking care of people's health Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "South Sudan is a mother that dies at about 20 years of age, due to a birth gone wrong, because assisted only by her grandmother, in her hut made of earth and mud. Two babies born at home, a third ...
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  6 February 2023
  OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - Assembly of the Bishops of Oceania: wants to “listen to the people of God” Suva (Agenzia Fides) - The Assembly of the Federation of the Four Catholic Bishops' Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO) was inaugurated yesterday, Sunday 5 February, with a Mass in the Sacred Heart Cathedral of Suva, capital ...
• 6 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New demonstrations in Goma as M23 rebels advance Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Also today, February 6th, protests broke out again in Goma, capital of North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo), Barricades in the streets, where demonstrations that began on Febru ...
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  6 February 2023
  ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo, Bishop Audo: after 12 years of war, the earthquake falls on us like a new bomb Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "Now it is even more important to be close to the people, who are terrorized by this earthquake". For Jesuit Antoine Audo, Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo, "among the many we have had, this is a disast ...
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  4 February 2023
  EUROPE/GREECE - Farewell to Ioannis Zizioulas, great theologian in Recent Times By Gianni Valente Both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI knew this. Both recognized that as we crossed the threshold of the Third Millennium since the birth of Christ, he was the greatest Christian theologian around, ...
• 4 February 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A Church that grows, but with the scourge of tribalism that persists Juba (Agenzia Fides) - There are 64 ethnic groups that make up the complex social mosaic of South Sudan. Coexistence not always easy between the different populations to the point that it ended up fueling the civil war t ...
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  4 February 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Knowing how to suffer for Africa". Pope exalts Daniele Comboni's missionary adventure By Gianni Valente Juba (Agenzia Fides) "I have only the good of the Church in my heart. And for the conversion of my African loved ones I would give a hundred lives if I could". This is what Daniele Comboni said of hims ...
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  4 February 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - International Day of Human Fraternity: to wither away the politics of hatred New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The International Day of Human Fraternity that we celebrate today, February 4, is a call to be courageous in defending and promoting justice and the rights of all, so that we can truly live a ...
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  3 February 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Jerusalem, Shrine of the Flagellation desecrated Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The series of attacks and intimidation that have been carried out in recent weeks against churches and Christian objects in the Old City of Jerusalem continues. On the morning of Thursday, Feb ...
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  3 February 2023
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "Migrant Houses" risk closure: Red Clamor supports Bishops' demands Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Red Clamor ecclesial network, which includes organizations involved in the field of migration, refugees and human trafficking, joins the Bishops' Conference of Guatemala, which expres ...
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  3 February 2023
  ASIA/JAPAN - A petition to protect the lives and dignity of refugees and asylum seekers Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for Refugees and Migrants of the Bishops' Conference of Japan has launched a collection of signatures to draw public and government attention to the possible tightening of the Immig ...
• 3 February 2023
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Demonstrations in Goma against African peacekeeping force. Tensions between Kigali and Kinshasa: extraordinary summit in Burundi tomorrow Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We have the right to study like the students in Kinshasa," shout the students in Goma, who took to the streets today, February 3, in the capital of North Kivu as well as in other localities of ...
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  3 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Pope Francis to Congolese Bishops: "Christian prophecy" is not "political activity" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Christian prophecy" is not "political activty". Christian prophecy becomes incarnate "in a wide variety of political and social activities, yet that is not generally the task of Bishops and pa ...
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  2 February 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Giving one's life to Christ to be happy. The testimony of five consecrated sisters Gazipur (Agenzia Fides) - One gives one's life to Christ by following His promise of happiness. And following the steps of Jesus leads on unknown paths, where He never abandons us. This is what five sisters who grew up i ...