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  2 March 2023
  ASIA/JORDAN - Archbishop Dal Toso takes office as Apostolic Nuncio Amman (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of March 1 Archbishop Giampietro Dal Toso arrived in Amman where he will take up his duties as Nuncio Apostolic to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. As the news portal "abouna.org." ...
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  2 March 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Lenten charity of Burmese Catholics Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - During Lent, Catholic communities collect donations for displaced people and those living in poverty in the forests, victims of the ongoing civil war in Myanmar. "In the Catholic churches of Myan ...
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  2 March 2023
  AMERICA - Summit of the Presidents of the Amazon Region: "We have to face great challenges and have little time to act" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), the Amazon World Assembly (AMA) and the Panamanian Social Forum (FOSPA) published on March 1st a joint letter addressed to the Presidents of the Ama ...
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  1 March 2023
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Sixteen new deacons will accompany future pastoral care for ethnic minorities Hưng Hóa (Agenzia Fides) - Sixteen new deacons from the Vietnamese diocese of Hưng Hóa are to accompany the proclamation of the Gospel and pastoral work in the most remote areas of north-western Vietnam, particularly ...
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  1 March 2023
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - After 46 years, investigations into the death of Bishop Carlos Ponce de Leon are reopened Rosario (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Court of Appeal of Rosario overturned a 1978 judgment that caused the death of Bishop Carlos Horacio Ponce de León of San Nicolas classified as the result of a road accident. This a ...
• 1 March 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Maputo, Tonito Francisco Xavier Muananoua Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Rev. Tonito Francisco Xavier Muananoua, of the clergy of Guruè, currently Vicar General and parish priest of the Cathedral of Santo António de Lisboa ...
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  1 March 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: Humanitarian situation worsens Goma (Agenzia Fides) - The recent wave of violence in the province of North Kivu (see Fides, 9/2/2023) has forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes and seek shelter in different areas of the region. Among ...
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  1 March 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Growing up (and studying) in the Peruvian Amazon. The boys and girls of the “St. Clotilde Boarding School” St. Clotilde (Agenzia Fides) - This year more than two hundred boys and girls will attend the “St. Clotilde Boarding School”: 114 girls and 98 boys. For ten months a year the boarding school becomes their home. They ...
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  1 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The candidate of the outgoing President's party wins the presidential elections Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The former governor of Lagos, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has won the presidential elections held in Nigeria on February 25, according to the official results published today, March 1, by the Independent N ...
• 28 February 2023
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 26, 2023, after an interim period (see Fides, 28/10/2022), Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed His Exc. Msgr. Adolfo Eduardo José Bittschi Meyer, Auxiliary Bishop of the Ar ...
• 28 February 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 18, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle confirmed rev. Pontian Kaweesa, of the diocesan clergy of Kiyinda-Mityana, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) i ...
• 28 February 2023
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 5, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle confirmed rev. Ivan Kňaze, of the diocesan clergy of Žilina, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Slovakia for ...
• 28 February 2023
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 26 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle confirmed rev. Eugenio Blaj, of the diocesan clergy of Iasi, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Romania for a ...
• 28 February 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 1, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle confirmed Rev. Isidore Nombré, of the diocesan clergy of Koudougou, the position of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
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  28 February 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ- Chaldean Patriarch Sako: Mary brings Christians and Muslims together Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "Mary has a unique position: she brings Christians and Muslims together". This was reiterated by Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, in a speech addressed to an audien ...