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  27 April 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - A possible permanent truce is expected in Juba after two weeks heavy gunfire and airstrikes Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The 72-hour truce established on April 21 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries to mark the end of Ramadan should expire tonight, April 27. H ...
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  27 April 2023
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We continue to trust in the democratic path" exhort the Bishops, who announce a mission among the most abandoned Pilar (Agenzia Fides) - "What have we done with our homeland? Forty years after the recovery of democracy, we see with pain how many chances we have lost to build a flourishing and happy Argentina". The bitter observatio ...
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  27 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - New priestly ordinations for Chinese dioceses on the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - From the diocese of Beijing to the dioceses of Wanxian (now Wanzhou), Sanyuan (in Shaanxi Province) and Jilin, Chinese Catholic communities welcomed six new priests ordained, as is customary, on ...
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  27 April 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Vietnamese Catholics, engaged in the mission in Korea for twenty years Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Vietnamese Catholic faithful present in the Archdiocese of Seoul are migrants who have settled in Korea and are fully integrated into the local Church. In recent days they participated in a Eu ...
• 26 April 2023
  ASIA/TIMOR - Appointment of Bishop of Baucau Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Leandro Maria Alves, of the clergy of Díli, until now parish priest of the Cathedral and executive secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Timor ...
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  26 April 2023
  AFRICA/GHANA - Mission Kumasi: meeting point of religion, royalty and diplomacy Kumasi (Agenzia Fides) - In 1880 Father Auguste Moreau, of the Society of African Missions (SMA), together with Father Eugene Murat, arrived in Elmina, the oldest European settlement in West Africa. According to chronol ...
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  26 April 2023
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Election campaign: A country in search of peace, stability and development Dili (Agenzia Fides) - With a view to the general elections scheduled for May 21 in East Timor, the electoral campaign has begun in the youngest nation in Asia. The President of the Bishops' Conference of East Timor, Bis ...
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  26 April 2023
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishop Gerardi Conedera was murdered 25 years ago: "A committed witness of charity" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "On this April 26, just two days after publicly presenting the conclusions of the Historical Memory Recovery Project (REMHI, Recuperacion de la memoria historica), we commemorate the 25th ...
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  26 April 2023
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops encourage hope: 'We need honest and non-political solutions' Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace be with you" is the greeting of the Risen Lord, "the Lord of history, who wants to encourage us in hope and in building the common good of our beloved homeland, Bolivia": this is the e ...
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  26 April 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: prayer is the "invisible force" of monks and nuns that sustains the mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I understood it was Love alone that made the Church’s members act, that if Love ever became extinct, apostles would not preach the Gospel and martyrs would not shed their blood", wrote Saint Ter ...
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  25 April 2023
  AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - Cape Verdeans begin the journey to celebrate the first 500 years of the Gospel on the Island of Santiago Praia (Agenzia Fides) - A state in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a bridge that seems designed to connect Africa, Europe and America. Cape Verde is an archipelago composed of ten volcanic islands (only one is uninhabi ...
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  25 April 2023
  VATICAN - Appointment of under-secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for first evangelization and the new particular Churches Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Msgr. Samuele Sangalli, until now official of the Dicastery for Bishops, as under-secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for first evangelizati ...
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  25 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Reopening of shrines after 3 years. Chinese Catholic communities are preparing for the Marian month Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "We can join the universal Church, remembering the prayer intention of Pope Francis and imitating Our Lady the Virgin Mary in following Christ her Son, to reveal the face of the Risen Lord and l ...
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  24 April 2023
  EUROPE/NETHERLANDS - The missionary commitment in the Catholic communities of the Netherlands Tilburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Netherlands, in collaboration with the School of Catholic Theology in Tilburg, organized a symposium to recall the important anniv ...
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  24 April 2023
  ASIA/TURKEY - 108 years since the Armenian Genocide. Commemorations banned in Istanbul Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - On April 24, 1915 more than 100 Armenian intellectuals, parliamentarians, writers and journalists were taken from their homes and deported on a journey of death to the Turkish towns of Çankır ...