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  27 April 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A total of 4,000 Coptic Christians make the Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - This Easter, more than 4,000 Egyptian Coptic Christians made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land to celebrate in places linked to the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. The data, pr ...
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  27 April 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop of Moron warns against misleading information about drug use Moron (Agenzia Fides) - "As Bishop of Moron, I would like to address our entire community and publicly express my deep concern at statements that send a misleading message to young people about the serious consequences a ...
• 27 April 2022
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Appointment of the Bishop of Matadi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 23, 2022 the Holy Father appointed Rev. André Giraud Pindi Mwanza, of the clergy of Matadi, currently Apostolic Administrator of the same Diocese, as Bishop of Matadi (Democratic ...
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  26 April 2022
  AFRICA /D.R.CONGO - Vocation and priestly mission, gift and mystery to be preserved Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The priestly vocation is a gift and a mystery: this is what the Archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu said in his address to the more than six hundred priests who gathered t ...
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  26 April 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Minister for Religious Affairs wants to invite Pope Francis Amboina (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia invites Pope Francis to visit the country: Minister of Religious Affairs Menag RI Yaqut Cholil Qoumas informed the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Pietro Pioppo and the Indonesian Catholic ...
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  26 April 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Dialogue, cooperation and positive developments in relations between the Holy See and Vietnam Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Relations between Vietnam and the Holy See are on the right track. On April 22, at the Central Government Office, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh received Undersecretary for Relations with th ...
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  26 April 2022
  ASIA/JORDAN - King Abdallah II reaffirms royal responsibility for protecting Christian and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The Hashemite dynasty of Jordan will continue to exercise its historical responsibility for the protection and protection of the Christian and Islamic Holy Places of Jerusalem with even more vigor ...
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  26 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A community farm to bring hope to families and children Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Drought and rising prices are causing health problems in Ethiopia due to malnutrition among the Ethiopian population and affecting 70% of families in the city of Emdibir: aware of these diff ...
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  26 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Representatives of the US Pontifical Mission Societies visit the country: "We want to share suffering and pain" Kyev (Agenzia Fides) - In Ukraine, the Pontifical Mission Societies of the United States not only want to provide material aid, but also to share the suffering of the people and their pain: with this spirit, the National ...
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  25 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Camillian missionaries: "Make Christ present by bringing a sign of hope to the sick" Munkacs (Agenzia Fides) - "Among the Ukrainian refugees, many sick, due to their precarious health conditions, cannot move because they are confined to a hospital bed or in a wheelchair. There are lonely and abandoned pe ...
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  25 April 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A training course for the integration of missionaries in the Venezuelan socio-cultural context underway Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Introduction to the Venezuelan reality": this is the name of the course conceived by the Missionary Training Center of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Venezuela. This is an unprecedented fo ...
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  25 April 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Bishop of Almaty: "The Pope's visit to this land will bear many fruits" Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The Easter season brings with it many reasons for joy: the first is the fact that, after two years of pandemic, we were finally able to celebrate Holy Week and Divine Mercy Sunday under normal ...
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  25 April 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 9 Coptic Christians who ended up in prison for protests over delays in the reconstruction of their church were released for Easter Samalut (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, April 23, the 9 Coptic Christians who had been imprisoned since January 30 for having participated in the previous days in the protests carried out by some Christian residents of th ...
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  25 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - A march to stop the war and its escalation: take the word out of arms and give it back to politics Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I greet and thank the participants in the extraordinary Perugia-Assisi March for peace and fraternity, which is taking place today; as well as those who have joined, giving life to similar events ...
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  25 April 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Pope's visit: decisive in finding a new peace agreement Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent months we have feared a return to war in South Sudan, especially when Vice-President Machar suspended his participation in the negotiations on responsibilities for the implementation o ...