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  4 August 2022
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The United Nations intervenes: crisis, drought and terrorist attacks Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent attack by Al Shabab in Ethiopia is another demonstration of the will of the terrorist group to become an international structure and not just Somali". This is reported by sources f ...
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  4 August 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - The work of the Jesuit Catholic network: Pastoral care and care for migrants Ranchi (Agenzia Fides) - Priests, nuns and laity of the local Church in the Indian state of Jharkhand are committed to promoting human rights, working as social workers, lawyers and pastoral agents in the care of migrant ...
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  4 August 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Against violence in the countryside, for the defense of peoples, waters and forests Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The updated data on violence in the countryside, prepared by the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) and the Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi), show that the killings in the conflicts went from a ...
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  3 August 2022
  AFRICA/CONGO RD- Tensions with the blue helmets continue; Kinshasa expels UN mission spokesperson Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Kinshasa has asked the UN Mission in Congo (MONUSCO) to remove its spokesman Mathias Gillmann. "In relation to the recent escalation of tensions between MONUSCO and the popula ...
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  3 August 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - He mocked Jesus. An Al Azhar professor will be tried for insulting Christianity and Islam Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - His name is Mabrouk Attia and he is a professor of Islamic Law at Al Azhar University, the Egyptian professor-preacher who has ended up at the center of controversy and criminal cases for irrevere ...
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  3 August 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nobody is safe, the situation is getting out of hand Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "There is massive insecurity. People are being killed every day. The bandits and the terrorists seem to have a free hand. We don't know where the security forces are". This is the alarm launched b ...
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  3 August 2022
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Five Catholic radios closed in the department of Matagalpa: a new violation of freedom of expression and religion Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The Nicaraguan diocese of Matagalpa reports the latest events: "On August 1 we received a letter from Mrs. Nahima Janett Díaz Flores, general director of the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommu ...
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  3 August 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Father Peytrequín, new continental coordinator of the PMS: "I dream of an 'outgoing' America" San Josè (Agenzia Fides) - "I dream of an America that is more and more 'outgoing', that promotes the mission ad gentes and inter gentes first of all from the particular Churches. I dream of greater missionary cooperati ...
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  3 August 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Grandparents and the elderly, precious accompaniment in families Gazipur (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of grandparents and the elderly is still precious for families in society in Bangladesh. In particular in rural areas, families are still close together and the elderly live with ch ...
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  3 August 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - A summer of intense pastoral activity for the Catholic community, towards a newfound normality Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The restrictions against covid in China are still in force but with less rigidity than in the past, as a result of the improvement in the health situation. Thus, the Catholic community throughou ...
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  2 August 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Faced with the escalation of violence in Apartadó: prayers for peace and reconciliation, symbolic acts of rejection Apartadó (Agenzia Fides) - "No reason justifies violence and its consequences on peoples, institutions and families": is reiterated in the "communiqué to public opinion and men of good will" of the Diocese of Apartadó ...
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  2 August 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Political stalemate and Parliament occupied. Patriarch Sako: The sectarian quota system has failed Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi political blocs must start a national consultation table to end the institutional stalemate that is paralyzing the country, before "a Tsunami wipes us all away". Cardinal Louis Raphael ...
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  2 August 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops after the serious incidents with the UN peacekeepers: "Anger is understandable, but violence is never tolerable" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions continue in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo between the local population and the UN Blue Helmets of the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), after the assaults that began on J ...
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  2 August 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appeal to Catholic women: take a lead on assisting the Church in her noble pastoral mission Kiambu (Agenzia Fides) - "As part of the wider church congregation, you must not sit on the wall. On the contrary, you must participate in the Church’s ministry", said the Archbishop of Nairobi, Msgr. Philip Anyolo, ad ...
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  2 August 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Proclaiming the Gospel in the media: communicators on mission Ayubia (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholic professional communicators are evangelizers in the media: it is their vocation and responsibility. We want to train our Catholic media professionals and help them improve their work in ...