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  16 May 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Protection, defense and care of life, not its destruction": decriminalization of assisted suicide approved Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Constitutional Court of Colombia has decided to decriminalize medically assisted suicide. This allows those who request it to have access to a dignified death. Medically assisted suicide is a ...
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  16 May 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The XII General Assembly of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) begins Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "Courage, it's me, do not be afraid!". The reassuring words that Jesus addresses to the Apostles, troubled and uncertain after having seen him walking towards them on the waters, in the Lake of Ti ...
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  16 May 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The role of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the growth of the living and active faith of the local Church Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pontifical Mission Societies can be defined as the four evangelical arms of the Holy Father in carrying out the mission of the Church that Jesus Christ began on earth". This is how Father Pontian K ...
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  9 May 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Peru has a new blessed: Sister Aguchita, heroic missionary, witness to the martyrdom of the Gospel of justice and peace in the Peruvian jungle San Ramon (Agenzia Fides) - "Yesterday in San Ramón (Peru), Sister María Agostina Rivas López, known as Aguchita, a nun of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, who was killed in hatred of the ...
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  9 May 2022
  VATICAN - On the beatification of Pauline Jaricot: first screening and presentation of the short film "To look from above" Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - The short film of the forthcoming beatification of Pauline Jaricot made by Fides on behalf of the Pontifical Mission Societies is entitled "To look from above". The presentation, which will be ...
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  9 May 2022
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Taza Province: Church aid projects for children and elders in the north of the country Taza (Agenzia Fides) - A dozen families in the city of Taza, in the northeastern mountain range of Morocco, have received assistance and support services for their children aged 7 to 12. Thanks to a project led by Sister ...
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  9 May 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Consecrated life, a gift for the Church and society Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The vocation to consecrated life is an invaluable gift for the Church and for all Indonesian society: this was witnessed by priests, religious and nuns of the parishes of the archipelago in the ...
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  9 May 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops meet presidential candidates: continue to work for the common good, integral development and work Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - Monsignor Héctor Fabio Henao Gaviria, delegate of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia (CEC) for relations between Church and State, presented the results of the meetings that took place betwee ...
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  9 May 2022
  AFRICA - The Bishops of West Africa urge to live the Christian vocation to give a future to young people Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We strongly denounce the policies and practices of our governments and leaders that facilitate and allow the exploitation and marginalization of our people and endanger the future of our children ...
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  9 May 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Prayer, awareness and concrete help for young women to fight against abortion Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - "Abortion is murder, it is a grave sin and an offense to God. Every day, many children are deprived of the right to life, of the right to grow as human beings", said Fr. Francis Nguyen Kim Phung d ...
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  9 May 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - St. Giragos Cathedral in Diyarbakir: Largest Armenian church in the Middle East reopens Diyarbakir (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Apostolic Cathedral of St Giragos in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir reopens for religious services. This also provides an opportunity to review the status of relations between th ...
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  7 May 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Day of Vocations: for a "synodal" vocational ministry Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Lurín and President of the Episcopal Commission for the Clergy, Seminaries and Vocations of the Peruvian Episcopate, Msgr. Carlos García Camader, invites us to live, in communion wi ...
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  7 May 2022
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - A path of fraternity for the Bishops of Central Asia Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - The first meeting of the newly formed Bishops' Conference of Central Asia, held from April 26 to 30 in Nursultan, Kazakhstan, was an opportunity to plan the future, but also to experience a mom ...
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  7 May 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Care of leprosy patients: work of the Church on a mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In her missionary work, the Church has a long tradition of assisting lepers, often abandoned even by their own families. She has always offered them concrete possibilities of healing and reintegrat ...
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  7 May 2022
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The survivors of the Easter attacks: "United in faith, awaiting truth and justice" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We will not stop demanding truth and justice for the attacks of 2019. The authorities must commit themselves to finding the perpetrators and instigators of the massacres. It is necessary to establ ...