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  4 April 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The artist who designed the statue for the Mass of Pope Francis in Juba has been killed Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The artist who designed the statue exhibited at the Mass presided over by Pope Francis during his pilgrimage to South Sudan from February 3 to 5, 2023 has been killed. According to the Catholic Rad ...
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  4 April 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Via Crucis in Niger always with the hope of the resurrection: the hope of the missionary Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 14 traditional Stations of the Cross at Easter, Father Rafael Casamayor shared the "Stations of the Cross" which, every Friday, symbolically celebrates the community of Dosso where ...
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  4 April 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church convenes a National Dialogue for Peace in view of a viable proposal to the authorities and the country Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "In order to collect all the possible contributions for peace in justice and to make a viable proposal to our authorities and to the country, we have convened the National Dialogue for Peace ...
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  3 April 2023
  AMERICA/CHILE - Recognition of ecclesial organizations for the defense of human rights during the dictatorship Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank you for this work, for risking your life to protect those who were persecuted for their ideas at the time, for believing in a different world, for fighting for justice". These are the wo ...
• 3 April 2023
  AMERICA/GUADELOUPE - Appointment of Bishop of Basse-Terre and Pointe-à-Pitre Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Philippe Guiougou, of the clergy of the diocese of Saint-Denis-en-France, until now vicar general and moderator of the Pastoral Unit of Saint-Deni ...
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  3 April 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "The widow's offering": the Lenten offerings of poor Bangladeshis for works of charity Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - These are offerings that come from very poor families, from faithful who often struggle for survival but who - like the evangelical "widow's offering" - do not want to miss a donation for communit ...
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  3 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Deaths due to pandemic, premature deaths, decrease in vocations: the aging of Chinese clergy is accentuating Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The "Qingming Feast", a day in which, according to Chinese tradition, ancestors and the dead are commemorated, falls every year on April 4 or 5. On this anniversary, the Catholic Church in China ...
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  3 April 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Apostolic Prefect of Robe: "Easter projects us forward to heaven and eternal glory" Robe (Agenzia Fides) - "Here we are in the year of grace 2014 that began in last year's Easter (Christians count the year from one Easter to another, for this reason we write the current year in the Easter candle!) and h ...
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  3 April 2023
  AFRICA/MALAWI - President of the Episcopal Conference: "Cyclone Freddy is a tragedy that has never happened in the history of the country" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a huge tragedy that has never happened in the history of the country. The population is in a very difficult situation", says Msgr. George Desmond Tambala, Archbishop of Lilongwe and Pres ...
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  1 April 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Three historical figures of the Catholic community of Seoul towards the altars Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Seoul has officially declared the opening of the beatification process for three historical figures of priests who provided pastoral service in the Archdiocese: Bishop Barthelem ...
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  1 April 2023
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Laity: Samaritans of our time and our culture, for social and ecclesial transformation Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) - "According to their baptismal identity, the laity assume the commitment to be authentic Christians, so that in every social, political, economic, ecclesial reality ... they can embody values an ...
• 1 April 2023
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Resignation of Bishop of Bubanza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Bubanza, Burundi, presented by Bishop Jean Ntagwarara. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 1/4/2023) ...
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  1 April 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Palm Sunday: Catholic communities promote the seventh National Collection Day Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - On Palm Sunday, for the seventh consecutive year, the Chinese Catholic community celebrates National Collection Day tomorrow, April 2. The initiative is promoted by Jinde Charites, the orga ...
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  1 April 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A religious of the Missionaries of Africa killed by mistake Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a tragic accident", a person in charge of the General House of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) told Agenzia Fides, confirming the accidental murder of one of his community ...
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  1 April 2023
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - The Catholic community in Moscow commemorates Father Konstantin Budkiewicz 100 years after his execution Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "The cross is not a source of bitterness and disappointment, but is already the beginning of glory". This is how Paolo Pezzi, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Mother of God in Moscow, spoke yesterd ...