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  10 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: Missionary warns of conflicting reports and media campaigns Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "As far as we know, the rebels are still advancing towards Goma. The M23 militias are currently 35 km from the capital of North Kivu," says Pierre Kabeza, a former trade unionist now representi ...
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  10 February 2023
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Bishops on the current situation: “We must not get used to violence” San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Yes to justice, to love, to peace", said Pope John Paul II during his visit to Costa Rica on March 3, 1983. It is under this motto that the members of the Costa Rican Bishops' Conference pres ...
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  10 February 2023
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Korean community's closeness and solidarity with earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Images of the widespread devastation caused by the earthquake on February 6 in Turkey and Syria have not left Catholics in South Korea indifferent. Peter Chung Soon-Taick, O.C.D., Archbishop of S ...
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  9 February 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - With martial law in 37 other cities, the army is determined to "crush any resistance" Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - With the imposition of martial law in 37 other townships throughout the country, including the strongholds of the resistance in the regions of Sagaing and Magwe, the pressure of the military go ...
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  9 February 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Celebrating the God of the Mission: centenary of the presence of the Consolata Missionaries Iringa (Agenzia Fides) - "What is the point of celebrating the Centenary of the presence of the Consolata Missionaries in Tanzania? What are we celebrating? Who are we celebrating?" write Sister Simona Brambilla, Superi ...
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  9 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The toll of the assault on a UN convoy worsens Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions remain high in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This morning, February 9, new clashes are reported between the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) and M23 rebels ...
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  9 February 2023
  AMERICA - Appeal to young people: “Our time has come! Our commitment is the transformation of society and the construction of the civilization of love” Bogotà (Agenzia Fiudes) - "We want to express our feeling of closeness to the young people of Peru, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico and other countries of the continent; to those who have been suffering the ravages ...
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  9 February 2023
  ASIA/TURKEY - Bishop Bizzeti: dramatic situation. The earthquake forces to abandon the politics of conflict Iskenderun (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of the earthquake that has annihilated thousands of human lives and reduced entire neighborhoods between Syria and Turkey to rubble, the collective tragedy and common pain of diff ...
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  9 February 2023
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarchs and Heads of Churches: after the earthquake, no more sanctions and embargo against the Syrian people Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - After the earthquake that hit large areas in northern Syria on Monday, February 6, economic embargoes and sanctions imposed by Western countries and organizations against the Syrian Arab Republ ...
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  8 February 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Somascan Fathers in celebration and on mission for orphaned and abandoned children Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Celebrating today, February 8, the feast of Saint Jerome Emiliani (Venice, 1486 - Somasca, Feb. 8, 1537) in the parish named after him in the municipality of Muntinlupa - one of the cities that m ...
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  8 February 2023
  ASIA/SYRIA - Monk (and next bishop) Jacques Mourad: the earthquake, the "full measure" of pain, and the mystery of our faith Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The only thing missing was this earthquake to fill to the brim the cup of suffering. And now, in this very situation, hope, charity, solidarity among all still passes, thanks be to God. Today th ...
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  8 February 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The military parade through the streets of Goma to "reassure the population" and silence the protests Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In Goma, the protests against the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) and the Blue Helmets of MONUSCO, accused of lack of action against the rebel advance towards the capital of North ...
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  8 February 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic 'Faith Weekly' calls for prayer and donations for earthquake victims Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A strong appeal for prayer and solidarity in favor of the Turkish and Syrian populations affected by the disastrous earthquake was launched immediately after the first tremendous earthquake on T ...
• 8 February 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Sister Regina da Costa Pedro Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 10, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Sr. Regina Da Costa Padro, of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions ( ...
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  8 February 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The work of the Church to combat human trafficking must be integrated by a government program Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "An important role of this Commission is listening. We hear the cry of anguish of our sisters and brothers who experience various forms of violence. We have heard the cry of hunger, the absence ...