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  20 February 2023
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - David O'Connell, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, shot dead Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 18 February the Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, David O'Connell, died in Hacienda Heights. The news was confirmed by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, José H. Gomez who emphasizes ...
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  18 February 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Catechism and integration programs for South Sudanese refugees. "Good deeds" in Adjumani refugee camps Adjumani (Agenzia Fides) - In Adjumani, in northern Uganda, the Jesuit father Lasantha Deabrew coordinates the Jesuit Refugee Service project for South Sudanese hosted in the refugee camps of Maaji and Aiylo. From this l ...
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  18 February 2023
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Alarm over the trafficking of Russian women who emigrate to Argentina to give birth Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "I am leaving for Argentina. We help people to move to Argentina, obtain permanent residence and passport, which opens visa-free entry to 170 countries around the world", announced RuArgent ...
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  17 February 2023
  ASIA/LEBANON - "Like a mustard seed". The Catholic Churches in the Middle East indicate the points of orientation of their "synodal path" Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic communities in the Middle East are called to bear witness to "fellowship and hope in suffering", to represent the face of a Church "as humble as a 'mustard seed', which grows in the pre ...
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  17 February 2023
  AFRICA - Strong resumption of jihadist attacks in the Maghreb and Sahel in January Rome (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Spanish International Observatory for Studies on Terrorism (OIET), the results of the activities of the various jihadist groups operating in the Maghreb and the Sahel are 134 attac ...
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  17 February 2023
  ASIA - The journey of the Churches of Laos and Cambodia: the proclamation of the Kingdom of God to the poor Phnom Pen (Agenzia Fides) - "Our extremely small Churches (0.1% of the population in Cambodia, - 0.5% in Laos), live in conditions similar to those of the Acts of the Apostles, with first or second generation Christians ...
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  17 February 2023
  Doctrinaires. The mission (and charity) of Teaching Catholic Doctrine by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Tradition "is to guard the fire, not to worship the ashes". This attests the evocative aphorism coined by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. A formula ofte ...
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  16 February 2023
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Priests at the service of the poor, of young people, of the care of the "Common Home" in small communities Ho Chi Minh Ville (Agenzia Fides) - "To serve God through the poor, in whom Christ is present and to be close to them every day" is the desire of Peter Pham Minh Hung, a priest in the parish of Vuon Xoai, belonging to th ...
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  16 February 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Is ISIS Mozambique now hitting only military targets? In any case, civilians are also affected Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Change of strategy by ISIS-Mozambique? This is what one wonders after the latest attacks carried out by the jihadist group against military and government targets that spared the inhabitants of t ...
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  16 February 2023
  ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo, Bishop Joseph Tobji: the earthquake opens a new time of trial, also for faith Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "After the shock and terror, we are now beginning to come to terms with the extent of the material and spiritual ruins that the earthquake has left in our lives. A hard time begins, where we will ...
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  16 February 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A musician 'trapped' in the body of a nurse: Father Camorani between missionary work and healthcare Monassao (Agenzia Fides) - "Here, in my small, modest, but dignified village hospital, the care of the body and the care of the soul come together", writes to Fides Father Davide Camorani, who arrived in Central Africa o ...
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  15 February 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Mission is born from an encounter with Jesus, going into the world "like lambs among wolves" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The mission of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus is not a "service" self-produced by Christians. Proclamation "comes from an encounter with Jesus". In every true apostolic work "we proclaim him, not ...
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  15 February 2023
  AFRICA/TOGO - Small hospital in the suburbs of an indigenous religious institute at the service of the population Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - The 'Msgr. Joseph Strebler', is a small field hospital belonging to the Sisters of Our Lady of the Church (NDE), an indigenous religious institute founded on August 15, 1952 in Noépé, Togo, by t ...
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  15 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Catholic parish and hospital in Birambizo looted: vaccination campaign against measles ruined Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Among the buildings looted on February 13 by the M23 rebels in Birambizo, in the Bukombo group, Rutshuru territory, in North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), there is also the local ...
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  15 February 2023
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Christians help earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in one of the poorest countries in the world want to help victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. In the past, the people of Bangladesh have themselves repeatedly been hit by the ...