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  2 April 2022
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - What does God want from the young people of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan? Samarkand (Agenzia Fides) - Meeting the young Catholics of Central Asia, understanding their spiritual needs, giving them the proclamation of Christ: these are the objectives of the diocesan meeting of young people from ...
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  2 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY: "BACK TO THE COMIGI: Mission restarts from the future", the Missio Giovani conference kicks off on April 22 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting with the Holy Father will open the awaited appointment of the VI edition of CO.MI.GI., the Youth Missionary Conference which returns in presence this year after the "forced pause" dicta ...
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  2 April 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to Canadian indigenous peoples: the Christian faith cannot be transmitted in a way contrary to the faith itself Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christian faith cannot be confessed, witnessed and communicated to others with methods and tools that are foreign and contrary to the dynamics of the faith itself. Pope Francis repeated this in h ...
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  2 April 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The commitment to the formation of the new generations of the Catholic Missionary Institute of Abidjan Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - ICMA, the Catholic Missionary Institute of Abidjan, was consecrated to Mary Our Lady of Evangelization last March 19 on the feast of St. Joseph. The rite at the end of the Holy Mass which conclu ...
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  2 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The peace march of Italian civil society arrives in Lviv Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "The ongoing conflict evokes the ghost of a past which was considered definitively archived. Instead the bombs, the destruction, the Ukrainian and Russian deaths, the devastation of recent weeks ha ...
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  1 April 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic Church and United Nations in Arauca: dialogue and processes to support victims are needed Arauca (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of the Catholic Church and the United Nations visited the territory of the Department of Arauca in view of the renewed outbreak of fighting between armed groups, which has caused ...
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  1 April 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The diocese of Maumere prays for Russia and Ukraine Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "On March 25, the priests of the diocese and representatives of the 45 religious institutes of our Diocese of Maumere, were deeply and spiritually united with Pope Francis during a solemn Euchar ...
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  1 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Robe Apostolic Prefecture: “We are turning the desert into an oasis” Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - "Some may have the impression that I have abandoned the Prefecture, in fact I have lived all this time in the heart of our Church, where the Gospel has not yet arrived, among the Somali peop ...
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  1 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - "Don Bosco for Ukraine": the Salesians of Brazil launch a solidarity campaign Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - The commitment of the Salesians to the population victims of the war, in Ukraine and beyond, continues at all levels. The Salesians remain committed in the field, in direct relief to the refugees, ...
• 1 April 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Forgotten war in Cabo Delgado: number of internally displaced persons increases Maputo (Agenza Fides) - The population continues to flee from Cabo Delgado, the northern Mozambican province where an insurrection led by armed jihadist groups has been ongoing since 2017. According to the latest report ...
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  1 April 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: Christians and Muslims should live Lent and Ramadan as a time of fasting and healing Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - This year, the Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins on the evening of Saturday, April 2, which coincides with the final weeks of Christian Lent, during which Christians prepare for Easter, the fea ...
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  1 April 2022
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Conference of Missionary Childhood of Europe on the theme of “holiness” Geneva (Agenzia Fides) - After four years of "break" due to the pandemic, CEME - an organization that brings together all the Secretariats of Missionary Childhood of the countries of Europe - met at the ecumenical center ...
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  31 March 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - A synodal journey in charity: the "Volunteers of the Lord" at the forefront to fight the pandemic Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Priests who guard the quarantined areas to enforce health rules at night, the nuns who are drivers and messengers, the seminarians who load material aid, the laity who intervene in all areas where ...
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  31 March 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Catholic Institute for Migration writes to President Boric: "We must take the problem into our own hands" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Chilean Catholic Institute of Migration, (Istituto Nacional Catolico di Migracion, INCAMI), has made known its concern for the migratory crisis that is being experienced in Chile and which ...
• 31 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Attack on train in Kaduna: Condolences from Christian denominations Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Our hearts and prayers are with the bereaved families and we pray that God will give them comfort. And for those who have suffered injuries we pray for a speedy recovery", said the President of t ...