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• 30 June 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Appointment of the Bishop of Odienné, Alain Clément Amiezi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Alain Clément Amiezi of the clergy of Bondoukou, until now parish priest of the Cathédrale Sainte-Odile, as bishop of the diocese of Odienné, C ...
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  30 June 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Bishops: "The food crisis is just round the corner" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Food crisis is threatening the Central African Republic, says the local Episcopal Conference in the message published at the end of the Plenary Assembly. "In some cities, a food crisis is to be ...
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  30 June 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Cardinal Kutwa: "The Diocese of Grand-Bassam, the gateway to faith" Grand-Bassam (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Grand-Bassam (east of Abidjan) has celebrated its 40th anniversary and the significant date has been the reason to launch a year of celebrations that ended this month and mar ...
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  30 June 2022
  AMERICA - The Bishops after the massacres of Melilla and San Antonio: the hardening of migration policies is ineffective, we must expand the possibilities of regular migration Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "We reject punitive approaches and the 'struggle' against irregular migrants in the formulation of migration and border management policies, not only because of their inefficiency and high finan ...
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  30 June 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The mission of the new priests: "Close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and always merciful" Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "God wants us not to harden our hearts towards the faithful, we must listen to them and love them. As priests, our hearts should be like the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a heart of flesh, not of stone ...
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  28 June 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - Catholics and Orthodox celebrate the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul together in "Peter's Grotto" Antakya (Agenzia Fides) - Also this year, baptized Catholics and Orthodox are preparing to experience intense moments of communion on June, 28 and 29, in the context of the liturgical memory of the Holy Apostles Peter an ...
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  28 June 2022
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Peace and reconciliation in Korea and Ukraine Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Although conflicts, wars, hostilities and divisions in the world are constantly intensifying, the Church cannot turn away or renounce her mission for peace, harmony and unity on this planet. As C ...
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  28 June 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Bishop of Buea: "The people live in fear, the Church inspires hope" Buea (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest challenge the Church faces in our lands is to lead a pastoral life among a people who live in fear. The life of our people has no semblance of normality, many families are forced to f ...
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  28 June 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The commitment of Christian, Catholic and Orthodox religious: pray for peace and make peace Odessa (Agenzia Fides) - The Peace Caravan which left Italy two days ago to show its closeness and solidarity with the victims of the Ukrainian war and to bring them material aid collected by the 176 associations recogni ...
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  28 June 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Archbishop of Bukavu denounces "A wind of war and insecurity is blowing again in eastern DRC" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is serious. A wind of war and insecurity is blowing again in this eastern part of our country", writes His Excellency Msgr. François-Xavier Maroy Rusengo, Archbishop of Bukavu, ...
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  27 June 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The murderers of one of the two priests killed captured in Auchi Auchi (Agenzia Fides) - The murderers of Father Christopher Odia Ogedegbe, from Auchi, have been captured. The Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Minna, Msgr. Luka Sylvester Gopep recently gave the news to Fides. "The ...
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  27 June 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Appeal by the Church: Humanitarian aid to flood survivors in Assam Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to help the survivors of the heavy floods that hit Assam, a state in north-eastern India. This is what Archbishop John Moolachira, at the head of the diocese of Guwahati, capital o ...
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  27 June 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Vatican Secretary of State will soon travel to Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "To show the great consideration he has for our country, the Holy Father has decided to send His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of Vatican City, to Kinshasa to pray with u ...
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  27 June 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Violence against priests, churches and congregations does not stop: two other priests assassinated Kaduna (Agenzia Fides) - Every week, innocent Nigerians lose their lives in terrorist attacks against places of worship, homes and means of transport, and many are also injured or kidnapped. This past weekend, two other ...
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  27 June 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The "diplomacy of bodies": the caravan of peace arrives in Odessa Odessa (Agenzia Fides) - The Caravan of Peace and Solidarity arrived this morning in Odessa, the Ukrainian port city on the Black Sea. It had left the Italian city of Gorizia on Saturday where, on behalf of the civil soc ...