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  3 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Franciscan friars: "God's grace saved the city from devastation" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "Currently the city of Konotop is under siege and at all entrances there are Russian checkpoints that prohibit civilians from leaving the city and do not allow the delivery of food and medicine. ...
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  3 March 2022
  ASIA/SYRIA - Orthodox Church of Antioch: the war in Ukraine tears apart peoples "born from the same baptismal font" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - For the end of the "painful events" in Ukraine, the Bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church want to look at the "spiritual ties between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, born from the same baptis ...
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  3 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Families and disabled people fleeing Ukraine are welcomed in the Orionine communities of Poland and Italy Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In our homes in Poland we have prepared several hundred places for refugees. Families with children with their orphanage guardians are brought to these centers. The confreres, in collaboration wit ...
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  2 March 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops video message: "United in asking the Lord for peace in the world, the most powerful weapon is prayer" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In a video message released for today, Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent and a Day of fasting and prayer for peace in Ukraine and in the world, the Mexican Bishops launch their "Message f ...
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  2 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Scalabrinian Missionaries: it is time to welcome, show solidarity and pray for peace Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "About 7 million refugees are expected if a truce is not reached in the 27 countries of the European Union. A considerable number, given that according to UNHCR 8 million people are fleeing through ...
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  2 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Franciscans close to the people "with prayer, lunch and words of encouragement" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the great tension in society, anxiety and widespread panic, in our Convent, together with Father Florian OFM, with volunteers and parishioners, we are at the service of people with pray ...
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  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops of the State of Anambra: "Fasting and prayer in Lent for peace" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The forces of darkness and death seem to have cast its shadows over the south-eastern part of our country. This has not been part of our history or who we are as a people. In the midst of these t ...
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  2 March 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Education of children from vulnerable, discriminated or stigmatized families Karonga (Agenzia Fides) - "Helping a child in the field of nutrition and education is a concrete gesture that gives life and builds the future", says Sister Franca Zonta, Superior General of the Congregation of the Daugh ...
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  2 March 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Women want and demand peace, since it is an inalienable human right": manifesto of the International Network of Women Catholic Leaders Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent Russian invasion of Ukraine endangers the life, development and potential of hundreds of thousands of women and girls who live on Ukrainian soil, destabilizing their most precious a ...
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  2 March 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Church kicks off the "Synod of women" Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The appointment is for Saturday, March 5 in Bkerké, at the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchate. In that framework, and in the presence of the Maronite Patriarch Béchara Boutros Raï, the ...
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  2 March 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Bishop Dell'Oro: "We are all children of God" Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "Faced with what is happening in Ukraine, I believe that the obligation of each of us must be to offer our neighbor a perspective that is not political. Here in Karaganda there are people of 1 ...
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  1 March 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - Bishop Bizzeti: the Turkish government's "courageous" choice to close access to the Black Sea to warships Iskenderun (Agenzia Fides) - "In Florence, for the first time, 60 Catholic bishops and 65 Christian, Muslim and Jewish mayors met and signed a document, which contains many serious and interesting things. This convergenc ...
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  1 March 2022
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Intensify prayer, practice forgiveness and fasting": invitation from the Archbishop of Kasama on the eve of Lent Kasama (Agenzia Fides) - "The season of Lent is a special moment to reach out to the most vulnerable, to the sick, to prisoners, to orphans and to all those in need", declared Msgr. Ignatius Chama, Metropolitan Archbisho ...
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  1 March 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic journalists, promoters of harmony and truth Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "The contribution of Catholic journalists to the nation is invaluable", says to Fides the Executive Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Indonesia, Father Peter Christian Siswantoko, told Ag ...
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  1 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Oblate missionaries of Mary Immaculate in prayer: "We feel the closeness of the Pope and of the whole Church" Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - "We are fine but we live in precariousness and uncertainty. Our help comes from the Lord and our hope is his Providence and we live these terrible moments immersed in prayer. Let us put our lives i ...