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  23 March 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Father Norberto, a Carmelite missionary injured by a mine, had already escaped three road ambushes Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Father Norberto Pozzi, born in 1952, Discalced Carmelite missionary from Lecco, injured in the north-west of Central Africa by a landmine on February 10 (see Fides, 13/2/2023), was the victim of ...
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  23 March 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - The priest of the Clerics of St. Viator who had been kidnapped at Croix des Bouquets has been released Croix des Bouquets (Agenzia Fides) - Father Jean-Yves Medidor, priest of the Clerics of St. Viator, parish priest of Christ-Roi le Meilleur in Port-au-Prince has been released. The news was announced by Father Nestor Fil ...
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  23 March 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - "She ended her life praying for everyone". Sister Maria Agustina Rivas, killed for being a peacemaker by Stefano Lodigiani La Florida (Agenzia Fides) - "A missionary nun killed for having been a peacemaker", this is the title of the news in which Agenzia Fides reported on the tragic death of Sister Maria Agustina Riva ...
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  22 March 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Several religious congregations are mobilizing to intervene in favor of the populations affected by Cyclone Yaku Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Collapsed houses, severe flooding, flooding of several rivers, landslides and numerous problems in urban areas are some of the consequences of the passage of Cyclone Yaku in Peru between March 16 a ...
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  22 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "We have joy in our hearts despite the violence" write the catechists from the Niger-Burkina Faso border area Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We have come to tell you that we have joy in our hearts despite the prevailing security situation in the area; we always have faith in Jesus Christ", write the catechists from Makalondi, Bomoang ...
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  22 March 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - New attack against indigenous peoples in the state of Maranhão São Benedito (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, March 19, around 4 a.m., the Traditional Baixão dos Rochas community, in São Benedito do Rio Preto, a municipality about 240 kilometers from São Luís, in the state of Maranh ...
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  22 March 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Message from the "Silsilah" movement for Ramadan: rediscovering spiritual values together Zamboanga city (Agenzia Fides) - The Muslim faithful in the Philippines, an Asian nation with a strong Catholic majority where there is a Muslim community of about six million souls, concentrated in the south of the arch ...
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  22 March 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Evangelization is vain and sterile without the gifts of holiness and witness Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The proclamation of the Gospel "is more than just simple doctrinal and moral transmission". The proclamation of the Gospel "is, first and foremost, witness – one cannot evangelize without witness ...
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  22 March 2023
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Luisa Guidotti Mistrali: "I want to go on mission as a doctor, leave forever, remaining lay among the laity" by Stefano Lodigiani Mutoko (Agenzia Fides) - "An Italian lay missionary, Dr. Luisa Guidotti, 47 years old, originally from Modena, who for more than ten years had been directing the medical center of the mission, abo ...
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  21 March 2023
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Young heralds of truth: National Youth Day returns after the pandemic San José (Agenzia Fides) - On a pilgrimage from the Church of La Soledad to the Metropolitan Cathedral, dozens of young people placed in the hands of God the "Dream of San José": the National Youth Day (DNJ) which will ...
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  21 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Release of two Western hostages kidnapped in the Sahel Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The two hostages were recovered safe and sound by the Nigerien authorities before being handed over to the French and American authorities", said the Minister of Interior of Niger Hamadou Souley ...
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  21 March 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Sacrament of Confession 24 hours a day Manila (Agenzia Fides) - It will be a place always open, where the mercy of God is ready to welcome the faithful 24 hours a day: this is the new chapel of Divine Mercy, whose construction has been launched for Lent 2023 ...
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  21 March 2023
  PAKISTAN - Sacrificing one's life to save the lives of others: the simple and strong faith of young Akash by Stefano Lodigiani Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not need and do not want civil war. We Christians are men of peace. Do not let pain cloud our gaze: may it always be the gaze of Christ and of his Gospel. What futu ...
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  20 March 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Two nuns from China's first indigenous female religious congregation take 'perpetual vows' Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Two sisters of the Congregation of Saint Joseph of the Archdiocese of Beijing made their final vows today, March 20, on the occasion of the liturgical feast dedicated to the Solemnity of Saint J ...
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  20 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Awaiting the results of Saturday's poll. Reported intimidation and violence Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The counting of the local elections of March 18 (see Fides, 18/3/2023) is underway. According to Festus Okoye, spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, these electio ...