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  8 March 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Testimony of the women of Doctors with Africa CUAMM Padua (Agenzia Fides) - Women are at the center of Doctors with Africa CUAMM's commitment to health. To pay homage and witness their great and constant commitment, on the occasion of March 8, the organization shared the ...
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  8 March 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Women on mission": women at the forefront of the Church's mission Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "This is its mission: to be an instrument of love in a polarized world permeated by hatred! Women are at the forefront of the mission". This is what the Counselor of the Episcopal Pastoral Comm ...
• 8 March 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appointment of bishop of Rumbek Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as bishop of the diocese of Rumbek, South Sudan, the Reverend Fr. Christian Carlassare, M.C.C.J., until now vicar general of the diocese of Malakal. Msgr. Chr ...
• 8 March 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Protection of minors and vulnerable people: a challenge for the Church Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Protection of minors and vulnerable people in the Church in Ivory Coast" is the central theme of a training session organized by the Bishops' Conference of Ivory Coast in collaboration with the ...
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  8 March 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Call of Catholics for the independence of the Commission for Minorities from the government Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - “The working style of the National Commission for Minorities has so far been unsatisfactory. The themes of the meetings have not been made public so far and there are members of the Committee ...
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  8 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Two young people killed in the compound of the Catholic Cathedral surrounded by the military Myitkyina (Agenzia Fides) - "The day of 8 March was marked by a harsh repression by the security forces against young demonstrators across the country. The agents open fire and claim more victims than in recent days", a ...
• 8 March 2021
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - A series of explosions shocks the economic capital Malabo (Agenzia Fides) - At least 17 people died and 420 were injured yesterday, Sunday 7 March, in a series of 4/5 explosions in a barrack in Bata, the most populous city and also the economic capital of Equatorial Guin ...
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  7 March 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Pope Francis in Mosul, Qaraqosh and Erbil: "Christ is alive and at work in his holy and faithful people" Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, I can see at first hand that the Church in Iraq is alive, that Christ is alive and at work in this, his holy and faithful people", said Pope Francis at the end of his homily in Italian at ...
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  6 March 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish-American Day: "Not all of our brothers and sisters in Latin America can receive the sacraments regularly" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - On the first Sunday in March, this year on March 7th, the Spanish-American Day, which focuses on relations with the local churches in Latin America. The day, organized by the Spanish Bishops' Con ...
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  6 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist monastic order to the military: call for an end to violence, it is urgent to start negotiations Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Sitagu Sayadaw of Shwe Kyin - the second most important Buddhist monastic order in Myanmar - took a stand alongside other elderly Buddhist monks in the country to call on the military junta to en ...
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  6 March 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Beginning of the Pope's apostolic visit to the land of Abraham Ur (Agenzia Fides) - "Here, where Abraham our father lived, we seem to have returned home". Thus, after being received in Najaf by Ayatollah Ali al Sistani (photo), Pope Francis began his speech today, in the plain of Ur ...
• 6 March 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation of bishop of Matadi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Matadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, presented by Bishop Daniel Nlandu Mayi. (SL) (Agenzia Fides ...
• 6 March 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appointment of bishop of Sibolga Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as bishop of the diocese of Sibolga, Indonesia, the Reverend Fransiskus Tuaman Sinaga of the clergy of the same diocese, until now director of the Dian Mandala ...
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  5 March 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Testimony of a long-term Spanish missionary and the presence of Jesus Christ, the Good Samaritan Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In Spain, the Hispanic-American Day will be celebrated next Sunday and for the occasion, Agenzia Fides has received from the Archdiocese of Toledo the testimony of Father Félix Zaragoza, the o ...
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  5 March 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Church's request to postpone the elections scheduled for Easter Sunday in the State of Tripura Agartala (Agenzia Fides) - Christians living in the state of Tripura, in northeast India, are saddened by the fact that the Autonomous District Council elections are scheduled for Easter Sunday. They therefore request th ...