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  31 March 2023
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Three online meetings in Russian on Pope Francis' Message for World Mission Day 2023 Astana (Agenzia Fides) - The series of three online training meetings in Russian organized by the Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Kazakhstan and the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Miss ...
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  31 March 2023
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The mission of the Church "on a synodal journey": towards the pastoral assembly in peninsular Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan pastoral assembly of ecclesial realities in Peninsular Malaysia - which is being prepared and will be held between summer and autumn 2023 - will talk about formation, the need ...
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  31 March 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Twenty missionary sisters at the service of evangelization among people in difficulty Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Famine, drought, early marriages, orphans, the elderly, human promotion, evangelization, these are some of the priorities of the sisters of the Congregation of the Social Missionaries of the Chu ...
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  31 March 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The peace process fails to advance after the change in the Ministry of Defense Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Immediately begin operations to disarm the civilian population, starting with the capital, Juba. This is the task assigned to the new Defense Minister of South Sudan, Chol Thon Balok, by President ...
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  31 March 2023
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Temporary reception centers for immigrants "end up being detention centers, where human rights are violated" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "As we have said more than once, 'Guatemala has the primary obligation to fulfill and enforce the rights of male and female citizens to remain in their country in dignified conditions and ...
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  31 March 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - New opportunities for communion and unity for the diocese of Baoding Baoding (Agenzia Fides) - After the difficult time of the pandemic, when churches were closed due to health provisions, even in the diocese of Baoding, in the Chinese province of Hebei, the daily life of the local Cathol ...
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  30 March 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - Bishops of the "Nineveh Council": Christians could boycott the upcoming elections Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Churches present in Mosul and in the Nineveh Plain, in a striking initiative, have announced the possible boycott of the next rounds of elections by the Christian component of t ...
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  30 March 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Gospel translated into the Cuyonon language, to "connect with God" Puerto Princesa (Agenzia Fides) - Making the Gospel understandable and "connecting with God" the populations who speak the indigenous Cuyonon language, settled mainly on the island of Palawan and on other islands in the ...
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  30 March 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Formation activities for catechists and lay people resume after three years of difficulties linked to the pandemic Liaoning (Agenzia Fides) - Three years have passed since the life of the Catholic community in China began to be conditioned and, so to speak, "slowed down" due to the Covid 19 pandemic. At last now many ordinary activit ...
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  30 March 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migrants who died in Ciudad Juárez: "a sad reality that deeply challenges us all" Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - "A sad reality that challenges us, all of us, profoundly, that does not leave us alone", underlined the Bishop of Ciudad Juárez, Monsignor José Guadalupe Torres Campos, when celebrating ...
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  30 March 2023
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - From Church founded by missionaries to missionary Church Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Out of a population of 19 million inhabitants, about 40% is Catholic, with variations from one diocese to another, according to the history of evangelization in each area", says to Fides Msgr. I ...
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  30 March 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Drought emergency in Turkana County: the population is in danger of a serious humanitarian crisis Lodwar (Agenzia Fides) - While anti-government riots against the high cost of living continue throughout the country (see Fides, 28/3/2023), the population of northern Kenya, in addition to the consequences of the Covid- ...
• 30 March 2023
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Puerto Carreño Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Fr. Álvaro Mon Pérez, C.Ss.R., until now chaplain of the Colegio Seminario Redentorista San Clemente in Manizales, as vicar apostolic of ...
• 30 March 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Aizawl Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Joachim Walder, of the clergy of Aizawl, until now episcopal vicar of the Barak Valley Region, as auxiliary of the diocese of Aizawl, assi ...
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  29 March 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: only the encounter with Jesus changes hearts and also frees us from a "Christianity without Christ" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - One becomes a Christian and proclaims the Gospel with passion, not because he studies the Bible or theology, but only through a real encounter with Jesus, who when he enters our lives "changes ever ...