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  26 April 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Dialogue, cooperation and positive developments in relations between the Holy See and Vietnam Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Relations between Vietnam and the Holy See are on the right track. On April 22, at the Central Government Office, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh received Undersecretary for Relations with th ...
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  26 April 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Minister for Religious Affairs wants to invite Pope Francis Amboina (Agenzia Fides) - Indonesia invites Pope Francis to visit the country: Minister of Religious Affairs Menag RI Yaqut Cholil Qoumas informed the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Pietro Pioppo and the Indonesian Catholic ...
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  26 April 2022
  AFRICA /D.R.CONGO - Vocation and priestly mission, gift and mystery to be preserved Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The priestly vocation is a gift and a mystery: this is what the Archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu said in his address to the more than six hundred priests who gathered t ...
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  25 April 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Pope's visit: decisive in finding a new peace agreement Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent months we have feared a return to war in South Sudan, especially when Vice-President Machar suspended his participation in the negotiations on responsibilities for the implementation o ...
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  25 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - A march to stop the war and its escalation: take the word out of arms and give it back to politics Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I greet and thank the participants in the extraordinary Perugia-Assisi March for peace and fraternity, which is taking place today; as well as those who have joined, giving life to similar events ...
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  25 April 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 9 Coptic Christians who ended up in prison for protests over delays in the reconstruction of their church were released for Easter Samalut (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, April 23, the 9 Coptic Christians who had been imprisoned since January 30 for having participated in the previous days in the protests carried out by some Christian residents of th ...
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  25 April 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Bishop of Almaty: "The Pope's visit to this land will bear many fruits" Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "The Easter season brings with it many reasons for joy: the first is the fact that, after two years of pandemic, we were finally able to celebrate Holy Week and Divine Mercy Sunday under normal ...
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  25 April 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A training course for the integration of missionaries in the Venezuelan socio-cultural context underway Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Introduction to the Venezuelan reality": this is the name of the course conceived by the Missionary Training Center of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Venezuela. This is an unprecedented fo ...
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  25 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Camillian missionaries: "Make Christ present by bringing a sign of hope to the sick" Munkacs (Agenzia Fides) - "Among the Ukrainian refugees, many sick, due to their precarious health conditions, cannot move because they are confined to a hospital bed or in a wheelchair. There are lonely and abandoned pe ...
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  22 April 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - National Catholic Collection Day: "God always gives more than we think" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "God always gives more than we think, we just have to put his teaching into practice with love", said the head of the economic affairs of the small parish of Huangshi, located in the province of Hu ...
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  22 April 2022
  AFRICA/TOGO - Recent developments in Lomè: Missionary reports on the work of religious in the peripheries Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - "Our students are on vacation, with their families and in their parishes. After Easter we will welcome five interns from Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Tanzania who will work in different parishes ...
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  22 April 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Great National Mission: the Missionary Cross will travel to all the dioceses San José (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the Great National Mission that the Catholic Church of Costa Rica is carrying out, the enthronement of a Missionary Cross is planned in each of the eight dioceses of the country. Th ...
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  22 April 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops to the President and parliamentarians: "Assume your responsibility for which you were elected!" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The Peruvian Episcopal Conference, aware of the reality that Peruvians live in all corners of the country, makes an urgent appeal to their political leaders to assume the current situation with gr ...
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  22 April 2022
  ASIA/TIMOR LESTE - The Archbishop of Dili to the president: the Constitution must be respected, for a prosperous and peaceful nation Dili (Agenzia Fides) - "I hope that whoever is elected president returns to the state Constitution since it serves as a check on the country's capacity to operate properly", said Msgr. Dom Virgilio do Carmo da Silva SDB, ...
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  22 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - A march for peace, relaunching the Pope's appeal: "Stop! War is madness" Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - "After almost two months of bombs, killings, suffering and devastation, alarmed by the serious social consequences of this new war, it is time to give space and voice to peace and to do so it is ...