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  1 July 2022
  EUROPE/SPAIN: Father José María Calderón: "The missionary spirit of Spanish Catholics is immense" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The activity report of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Spain for the year 2021 was presented yesterday during a press conference. Among the speakers: the director of the Spanish PMS, ...
• 1 July 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We are not terrorists!": More than 700 Nigerian priests peacefully protest at the funeral of the priest killed in Kaduna Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are priests, not terrorists!" "the government should protect Nigerians", "justice must be served", "do we still have a government?". These are some of the slogans on the placards in the hand ...
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  1 July 2022
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A peace agreement puts an end to the long period of violent demonstrations Quito (Agenzia Fides) - After the mobilization, anti-government protests and acts of violence that have caused at least 6 deaths and about 500 injuries in Ecuador since June 13, the blockade of roads and activities, the ...
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  1 July 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Church donates church of great Mar Mina to Russian orthodox Church for free use Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The church dedicated to Mar Mina, located in the Egyptian city of Giza which belongs to the Coptic Orthodox Church, will henceforth become the first church in Egypt offered for free use to the Ort ...
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  30 June 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The mission of the new priests: "Close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and always merciful" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "God wants us not to harden our hearts towards the faithful, we must listen to them and love them. As priests, our hearts should be like the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a heart of flesh, not of stone ...
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  30 June 2022
  AMERICA - The Bishops after the massacres of Melilla and San Antonio: the hardening of migration policies is ineffective, we must expand the possibilities of regular migration Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "We reject punitive approaches and the 'struggle' against irregular migrants in the formulation of migration and border management policies, not only because of their inefficiency and high finan ...
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  30 June 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Cardinal Kutwa: "The Diocese of Grand-Bassam, the gateway to faith" Grand-Bassam (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Grand-Bassam (east of Abidjan) has celebrated its 40th anniversary and the significant date has been the reason to launch a year of celebrations that ended this month and mar ...
• 30 June 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Bishops: "The food crisis is just round the corner" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Food crisis is threatening the Central African Republic, says the local Episcopal Conference in the message published at the end of the Plenary Assembly. "In some cities, a food crisis is to be ...
• 30 June 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Appointment of the Bishop of Odienné, Alain Clément Amiezi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Alain Clément Amiezi of the clergy of Bondoukou, until now parish priest of the Cathédrale Sainte-Odile, as bishop of the diocese of Odienné, C ...
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  30 June 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Fire in the Tuluá prison: the authorities called to "watch over and accompany the life and social reintegration of detainees" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In the early hours of Tuesday, June 28, a fire caused by inmates in the security prison of Tuluá, in the department of Valle del Cauca, in southwestern Colombia, caused at least 51 deaths and 24 ...
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  30 June 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Heads of Churches pay tribute to the "June 30 Revolution" that brought President al Sisi to power Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 9th anniversary of the so-called "June 30 Revolution", which in 2013 led to the overthrow of the Egyptian government led by the Muslim Brotherhood, the main representatives ...
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  30 June 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The "StopthewarNow" caravan: "To be here with the people who suffer to dare to propose peace" Mykolaiv (Agenzia Fides) - Irina comes from Mariupol. She fled shortly before the final attack on the steel mill: "We miraculously escaped one day before our house was destroyed." It is one of the testimonies collected b ...
• 28 June 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Archbishop of Bukavu denounces "A wind of war and insecurity is blowing again in eastern DRC" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is serious. A wind of war and insecurity is blowing again in this eastern part of our country", writes His Excellency Msgr. François-Xavier Maroy Rusengo, Archbishop of Bukavu, ...
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  28 June 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The commitment of Christian, Catholic and Orthodox religious: pray for peace and make peace Odessa (Agenzia Fides) - The Peace Caravan which left Italy two days ago to show its closeness and solidarity with the victims of the Ukrainian war and to bring them material aid collected by the 176 associations recogni ...
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  28 June 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Bishop of Buea: "The people live in fear, the Church inspires hope" Buea (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest challenge the Church faces in our lands is to lead a pastoral life among a people who live in fear. The life of our people has no semblance of normality, many families are forced to f ...