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  5 March 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A century of missionary work in the Apostolic Vicariate of Caroni Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "100 years of sowing the Gospel" is the title of the message of the Permanent Commission of the Venezuelan Episcopate, on the occasion of the centenary of the creation of the Apostolic Vicariate ...
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  5 March 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Missionaries and Witnesses: “Gospel Speakers” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Today's man listens more to witnesses than to teachers", says Pope Paul VI in Evangelii Nuntiandi, with a widely known expression, also taken up by Pope Francis: "today's world is in great need of ...
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  5 March 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - To the ends of the earth: Docu-film on Saint Francis Xavier, great missionary in the Far East, 400 years after his canonization Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Saint Francis Xavier - To the ends of the Earth" is a Docufilm that tells the story of the Patron saint of the missions, his university years at the Sorbonne, the troubled encounter with Ignatius ...
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  4 March 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Camillians offer the structure of a seminary and a parish to displaced Ukrainians Burakow (Agenzia Fides) - Camillian Disaster Service International (CADIS), in collaboration with other Camillian and non-Camillian organizations is also mobilizing to support the Ukrainian emergency. Specifically, the C ...
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  4 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Welcome, compassion, prayer: "We live with the spirit of Job" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "In the midst of suffering, hardship, war, we, Franciscan friars of the Province of St. Michael the Archangel, continue to serve the poorest and most suffering people in the city of Konotop with ...
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  4 March 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Lenten campaign "for an education that promotes universal brotherhood and integral humanism" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The 2022 Fraternity Campaign (FC), launched by the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) on Ash Wednesday, has as its theme: "Fraternity and Education" and the biblical motto, inspire ...
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  4 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - "We are desperate but we are not afraid, we are very determined, all of us" says Fr. Mikola from Lviv Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "The war started only a few days ago, everything works normally here, shops are open, public transport works. The situation is calm but we are preparing. There are also air warnings but at the mome ...
• 4 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - On the occasion of the start of Lent, the Bishops have multiplied their appeals for peace and reconciliation Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Building peace through mutual forgiveness and education. This is the appeal launched in their Lenten messages by various Bishops in Nigeria. "Our leaders here in the north should make education th ...
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  4 March 2022
  ASIA - Cardinal Bo and the Bishops of Asia: No to nuclear war, the world needs healing Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Avert in every possible way the risk of a nuclear war, promote dialogue and bring global healing to the world: this is the hope expressed in an appeal launched today, March 4, by Cardinal Charles ...
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  4 March 2022
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Priest shot dead San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Enrique Vasquez was murdered, a body was found in the north of San Pedro. Once again the blood of the martyrs bathes our land": these are the moving words of Monsignor Ángel Gara ...
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  4 March 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Bishops describe war in Ukraine as "surrender" to logic of violence Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The war in Ukraine is a "surrender to the logic of conflict and violence" and marks "the failure of all political and diplomatic attempts to avoid conflict", said "with regret" the Maronite bish ...
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  3 March 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society remembers the Catholic minister Shahbaz Bhatti on the 11th anniversary of his death Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Christian, Muslim and Hindu faithful, civil society leaders and members of human rights organizations paid tribute to the late Federal Minister for Minority Affairs, the Catholic Clement Shahbaz ...
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  3 March 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - “We must look beyond ourselves and do good” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "In our world and in our social and cultural context, we are called to sow the seeds of peace, justice and reconciliation. In order to reap these fruits, the seed of violence and war, the seed of ...
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  3 March 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "United in prayers for justice and peace": the first Lenten campaign begins in the diocese of Tombura Yambio Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "Celebrate our differences, promote our unity, heal our wounds and renew our country. Lent is just around the corner", says the Bishop of the Diocese of Tombura Yambio, Msgr. Eduardo Hiib ...
• 3 March 2022
  AFRICA - Alarm in several African countries over the skyrocketing price of wheat due to the war in Ukraine Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Cereal prices are soaring due to the war in Ukraine. On the Chicago Commodity Exchange, a world reference point for cereals, wheat futures stand at $ 1,134 per bushel (Anglo-Saxon unit of measureme ...