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  9 May 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Peru has a new blessed: Sister Aguchita, heroic missionary, witness to the martyrdom of the Gospel of justice and peace in the Peruvian jungle San Ramon (Agenzia Fides) - "Yesterday in San Ramón (Peru), Sister María Agostina Rivas López, known as Aguchita, a nun of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, who was killed in hatred of the ...
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  7 May 2022
  AFRICA - The Bishop of Agboville elected President of CEREAO/RECOWA Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Agboville (Ivory Coast) His Exc. Msgr. Alexis Touably Youlo, was elected President of the Regional Bishops' Conference of West Africa (CEREAO/RECOWA) during the Fourth Plenary Assemb ...
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  7 May 2022
  VATICAN - "As long as Christ is announced". The missionary heart of Albino Luciani by Gianni Valente "Missionaries are those who pull the cart of the Church. Those who pull the cart are those who ask for the places of fatigue and risk". This is what Albino Luciani repeated to his sister Antonia, many ...
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  7 May 2022
  AMERICA/USA - The documentary on the story of Pauline Jaricot produced by the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States is now available New York (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith (see Fides, May 3, 2022), the Pontifical Mission Societies of the United States have created ...
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  7 May 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Felix Zakari Fidson, kidnapped at the end of March, has been freed Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Felix Zakari Fidson, priest of the diocese of Zaria, in the state of Kaduna, northern Nigeria, kidnapped on March 24, has been released (see Fides, 25/3/2022). "With a heart filled with joy, ...
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  7 May 2022
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The survivors of the Easter attacks: "United in faith, awaiting truth and justice" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We will not stop demanding truth and justice for the attacks of 2019. The authorities must commit themselves to finding the perpetrators and instigators of the massacres. It is necessary to establ ...
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  7 May 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Care of leprosy patients: work of the Church on a mission Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In her missionary work, the Church has a long tradition of assisting lepers, often abandoned even by their own families. She has always offered them concrete possibilities of healing and reintegrat ...
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  7 May 2022
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - A path of fraternity for the Bishops of Central Asia Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - The first meeting of the newly formed Bishops' Conference of Central Asia, held from April 26 to 30 in Nursultan, Kazakhstan, was an opportunity to plan the future, but also to experience a mom ...
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  7 May 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Day of Vocations: for a "synodal" vocational ministry Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Lurín and President of the Episcopal Commission for the Clergy, Seminaries and Vocations of the Peruvian Episcopate, Msgr. Carlos García Camader, invites us to live, in communion wi ...
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  6 May 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Young Catholics as Messengers of the Gospel in Society Nadiad (Agenzia Fides) - Young Indian Catholics are messengers of the Gospel in society and are actively involved in bringing Christ's gaze to issues such as human dignity, poverty, addictions, youth problems, hostilitie ...
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  6 May 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: in the Christian mission there are no "protagonists" and "executors" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church "exists to evangelize, to go forth and to sow the seed of the Gospel in history". Each baptized person can be involved in this great adventure, whatever his condition and his role in the ...
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  6 May 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Presentation of the Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees for the South African dioceses Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The need for Guidelines for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees in the SACBC (Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference) arises from the reflection of how the Church can speak to th ...
• 6 May 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Khrist Premalaya" Regional Theologate Seminary" in the Archdiocese of Bhopal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 1, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Francis Scaria, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Bhopal as ...
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  6 May 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Archbishop Pezzi: leave a door open to dialogue; the other is never an enemy Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "I think that these hopes for dialogue are well founded. I think that mistrust is more unfounded. This is what Msgr. Paolo Pezzi, Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of the Mother of God in Moscow, ...
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  6 May 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Uncertainties and hopes in a country in conflict Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "Orthodox fundamentalist groups could create problems for Ethiopia by fueling a new military escalation", one of the seven members of the Inter-Religious Council of Ethiopia (EIRC) told Fide ...