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  29 April 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Catholic community prays the Rosary in view of the elections Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic faithful in the Philippines entrust the nation to Mary and join together spiritually to pray the Rosary on the occasion of the national and local elections on May 9. In a pastoral st ...
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  29 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Population on the brink: the humanitarian action of the Church, which asks for peace Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "At the end of 2021, when we understood that the conflict would continue, we agreed that more attention would be needed and to start an aid program. At that point, the Church, the Bishops, t ...
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  29 April 2022
  AFRICA - Appeals continue to support the populations of the Horn of Africa who risk dying of hunger and thirst Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Millions of people across East Africa are facing extreme levels of hunger and malnutrition. The region's food insecurity continues to be exacerbated by ongoing conflicts, severe drought, loc ...
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  29 April 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - The "Day of the Catechist": disciple-missionary called to live synodality Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Since 2013, the Bishops of Peru have decided to celebrate, on the third Sunday of Easter, the "Day of the Catechist", whose patron is St. Francis Solano. For this reason, the Episcopal Commission ...
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  29 April 2022
  ASIA - Bishop Mumbiela Sierra elected President of the newly created Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Central Asia Nursultan (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. José Luis Mumbiela Sierra, Bishop of the Diocese of the Holy Trinity in Almaty, will preside over the Catholic Bishops Conference of Central Asia for the next four years. This is what wa ...
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  28 April 2022
  AMERICA - Saint Toribio de Mogrovejom, the great evangelizer who anticipated the journey of the "Church which goes forth" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Saint Toribio anticipated the journey of the 'Church which goes forth' on our continent. He spent a total of 17 of his 25 years as Archbishop of Lima traveling some 40,000 kilometers making pas ...
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  28 April 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Sentences, violence and murders for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A so-called Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Lahore has ruled in the murder of Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara, who was killed by a mob in Sialkot in December 2021 on charges of blasphemy (see F ...
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  28 April 2022
  ASIA - Asia, the continent of natural disasters and poverty Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - By 2030 the world will face around 560 natural disasters a year and most of these events will affect Asia. This emerges from the Global Assessment Report 2022 published by the UN Office for Disa ...
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  28 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Missionary Jubilee Year: "A time of awareness of the missio ad gentes" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Our goal is to keep alive the memory of the missionary journey, but above all to see missionary action as a paradigm for all the work of the Church. The Jubilee brings us into this wonderful d ...
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  28 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - The Easter cross carried by a people suffering from famine, lack of medicine, violence and insecurity Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "We, the Christians of Dosso, form a small, very small, minority community in a predominantly Islamized society. We are happy but also fragile in the face of the diversity and multiplicity of colo ...
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  28 April 2022
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Canonization of Charles de Foucauld: Archbishop of Algiers on the special spiritual path Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - Charles de Foucauld is not just an icon. Because if his story continues to touch the hearts of a multitude of people in all parts of the world, it is not because of the romantic image of a "herm ...
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  27 April 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Celebration of the 500th anniversary: a new impetus for evangelization Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - From the conclusion of the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines on April 24th in Cebu, the Philippine Church receives new impetus for the mission ...
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  27 April 2022
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Journalists: "their task is to seek and communicate the truth, communicate hope and life to our people" Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "The journalist's task is to seek and communicate the truth, both through facts and investigative reports, through the interpretation of events or through his comments. The search for the trut ...
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  27 April 2022
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Waiting for truth and justice: the Church commemorates the Easter massacres and visits the Pope Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - For three years we have been asking the government for truth and justice after the Easter 2019 massacres. For three years we have stood by the victims and their families. Since our cry and that ...
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  27 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Tigray's health system has completely collapsed: local doctors try to "improvise" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - More than a month after the humanitarian ceasefire declared by the Ethiopian government under Prime Minister Abiy on March 24 (see Fides, 25/3/2022), which had raised great hopes among the a ...