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  26 May 2023
  AFRICA - 'Women Beyond Borders': to give voice to women working in the existential peripheries around the world Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Comboni Sisters have launched “Comboni Sisters – Women Beyond Borders,” a new digital media aimed at sharing the stories of missionary women working in existential peripheries around the ...
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  25 May 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Prayer and symposium for reconciliation and unity on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in South Korea is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the war that devastated the peninsula from 1950 to 1953. To mark the occasion, the Korean Church has annou ...
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  25 May 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The kidnapping industry" in Nigeria spares no one Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – While Father Kingsley Maduka, the parish priest of the Catholic parish of Christ the King, Ezinnachi-Ugwaku, Okigwe L.G.A., in the State of Imo, in south-eastern Nigeria, is finding his freedom, ...
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  25 May 2023
  AMERICA - Week of prayer: "anointed by the same Spirit, let us seek to be a reflection of Trinitarian love, love in unity, love in diversity" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - In many Latin American Catholic communities the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity" takes place on the days before or after Pentecost. The churches in Brazil celebrate it during the week of Ma ...
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  24 May 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Girls forced into early marriage: education is the key to the fight against this phenomenon Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - A dramatic figure has been published by UNICEF in recent weeks, indicating that approximately 51% of girls under 18 in Bangladesh are forced into early marriage. Due to a cultural practice, which ...
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  24 May 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Marian processions, Confirmations, Masses and Prayers: how Chinese Catholics experienced the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - 300 Catholics from the parish of Bailing, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians, in the diocese of Shantou (Chinese province of Guangdong), received today, Wednesday, May 24, ...
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  24 May 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis believes witnessing in times of persecution "can bear much fruit for the faith". And invites to pray for the proclamation of the Gospel in China Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Witnessing to the Gospel in times of persecution "can bear much fruit for the faith". This is attested by dozens of witnesses and martyrs who confessed their faith in Christ in unfavorable circums ...
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  24 May 2023
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The search for peace is based on respect for life, human dignity and dialogue, not on violence Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The scandalous and cruel practice of recruitingand using minors for war, so frequent by various armed groups, indicates a high level of degradation of the armed conflict in the country. The Colo ...
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  24 May 2023
  AFRICA/GHANA - Evangelization, peace and care for Creation: the challenges of the Church in Ghana according to the President of the Episcopal Conference Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Ghana has constantly grown in number, but this poses a challenge because we do not have enough evangelization agents", says Msgr. Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, Bishop of Sunyani and President ...
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  24 May 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "A long journey in God's hands". The missionary adventure of Sister Adriana, 62 years at the service of the Korean people Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I arrived in Seoul and everything was destroyed. There were only the cathedral and the central station." Thus begins the story of Sister Adriana Bricchi, a missionary of the Daughters of Saint Mar ...
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  23 May 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Santa Ana Maya parish priest murdered with firearms Huandacareo (Agenzia Fides) - The Office of the Attorney General of the State of Michoacán is investigating the murder of Father Javier García Villafaña, which occurred on Monday, May 22, 2023 in the municipality of H ...
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  23 May 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Bloody invisible hands fuel the conflict between Teke and Yaka" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The bloodthirsty invisible hands of Kinshasa" are at the origin of the conflict in the region of Kwamouth, in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This was affirmed by the Bisho ...
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  23 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - There is no respite for the Sudanese people: even the latest ceasefire attempt has failed Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, May 23, 2023, the truce between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which came into effect last night, was broken (see Fides, 22/5/2023). Army heli ...
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  23 May 2023
  ASIAVIETNAM - Pilgrims return to La Vang shrine to 'cry out' to Mary Hue (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not miss the opportunity to make a pilgrimage with your family or your community. This is the time to pray as a family. Come and visit and pray to Our Lady of La Vang": the agencies that organiz ...
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  23 May 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Launch of an "online" identity verification system for Muslim, Catholic and Protestant religious Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - From today, May 23, 2023, the "online" verification system for the identity of Muslim, Catholic and Protestant religious has also been launched. The same system, as Agenzia Fides reports (see Fi ...