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  3 June 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - A small Catholic community in a Muslim country Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "A breath of fresh air in this time when the heat burns us and the monotony of the desert distorts our horizon", was the definition that Father Rafael Casamayor gave of a group of seminarians from ...
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  3 June 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Message to young people for Pentecost: "the times in which we live need you" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The National Commission for Youth Ministry has published a message addressed to young Chileans on the occasion of the solemnity of Pentecost, which has been a highlight of youth ministry in dio ...
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  3 June 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - 150th anniversary of the founding: Comoni Missionary Sisters and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians celebrate together Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In 2022 the Comboni Missionary Sisters and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians celebrated the 150th anniversary of the founding of their congregations. A brief report sent to Agenzia Fides by ...
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  2 June 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Your commitment shortens distances": annual collection of Caritas Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - With the motto "Your commitment shortens distances", Caritas Argentina has launched its traditional annual collection, which will take place on June 11 and 12 in parishes throughout the cou ...
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  2 June 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Amnesty International: Serious acts of violence against the civilian population in the Burmese states of Kayah and Kayin Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The violence in the Burmese states of Kayah and Kayin broke out again after the February 2021 coup, but it has further intensified from last December to March 2022, causing the death of hundreds ...
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  2 June 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros II on the Feast of the Entry of the Holy Family: “A Blessing for the Country” Kafr el Sheikh (Agenzia Fides) - May the time that Jesus and all the Holy Family spent in the land of Egypt be an eternal blessing to all Egyptians. This was confirmed by Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II on Wednesda ...
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  2 June 2022
  AFRICA/MAURITIUS - "Torture by police officers is inhumane and disturbs social cohesion", says Cardinal Piat Port Louis (Agenzia Fides) - "Together with the population I was horrified by the torture inflicted by members of the police on citizens who were in their custody. That is why it is essential that those guilty of this ra ...
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  2 June 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A Catholic exorcist group: the "No" of the Church and the State Bao Loc (Agenzia Fides) - "It is inappropriate to claim that someone is possessed by the devil or to believe that illnesses are caused by demons and that someone has a superpower of exorcism them. Arbitrary acts of exorc ...
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  2 June 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Discerning the moment that Colombia is experiencing in the light of faith Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Let's make discernment. Help to discern in the light of faith the moment that Colombia is experiencing, in view of the second round to elect the new President of the Republic". This is the title ...
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  2 June 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "The Church is not yet an angelic community. It lives in the world without being of the world" Robe (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church is not yet an angelic community. She lives in the world without being of the world, totally and seriously in the world. Living the reality of the world as an evangelizing presence is no ...
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  1 June 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops’ appeal a few weeks before Pope Francis' visit: "Stop the war in North Kivu" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The nightmare of war has been going on for too long. We ask the belligerents to return to reason", exhort the Bishops of CENCO (National Episcopal Conference of the Congo), in a statement in w ...
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  1 June 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Russian faithful in prayer with the Pope to ask for the gift of peace Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "If God is among us, we may encounter difficulties and unforeseeable circumstances, but we will not lose what is most important. And what counts most is the relationship with God: those bonds wit ...
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  1 June 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - Polish and Ukrainian religious institutions offer help to the Ukrainian people Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - There are many religious institutions in Poland and Ukraine that offer help and comfort to the Ukrainian people wounded by the ongoing conflict. Many of them carry out a hidden and silent and yet ...
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  1 June 2022
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - The reception of Ukrainian refugees has become an integral part of the life of the Salesian community of Kazincbarcika Kazincbarcika (Agenzia Fides) - Kazincbarcika is a city in northern Hungary, where the Salesians run a parish, a Salesian house, two schools, a dormitory and various other apostolic activities, with which they take care ...
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  1 June 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church celebrates the entry into Egypt of the Holy Family Sakhā (Agenzia Fides) - People who follow Jesus consecrate their family to the Lord, so that he protects them from the dangers of the present time, and preserves their path in love, sharing and freedom. This is how Copt ...