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  9 April 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - The mission ad gentes today Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelization in Poland, the new challenges of the mission ad gentes, young people, the conflict in Ukraine and the Jubilee Year on the occasion of the anniversaries of the Pontifical Mission So ...
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  9 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Palm Sunday: national solidarity collection "Fraternity and Education" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - As a concrete gesture of the Fraternity Campaign, every year a national solidarity collection takes place throughout Brazil on Palm Sunday: in 2022 on April 10. Bishops, priests, religious, lay ...
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  8 April 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Church-State Relations: putting Christ at the center Concepción (Agenzia Fides) - The Chilean Church organized a Conference on Church-State Relations that was held through digital platforms, in which, among others, Monsignor Fernando Chomali, Archbishop of Concepción, an ...
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  8 April 2022
  AFRICA/BENIN - Christian and Muslim religious leaders held an inter-religious celebration Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "We met in the cathedral to celebrate, at the invitation of the Archbishop with other religious confessions, namely Muslims, Catholic Christians, Protestant Christians, Methodists and the tradit ...
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  8 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sisters of Charity: 10 years of the Thouret Foundation, on the paths of charity in the peripheries of the world Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Thouret Foundation, an organization inspired by the charism and missionary tradition of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joan Antida Thouret, founded in Besançon, France, on April 11, 1799, cel ...
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  8 April 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A Lent lived by Catholics in the name of charity Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - It is a Lent marked by works of charity that Catholics are experiencing in Vietnam. Practices of charity are promoted with enthusiasm because "faith develops through charity", say the faithful. As ...
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  8 April 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Eucharist, source of mission Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - "The Eucharist is the source and summit of our life and our mission. We are Eucharistic people, called to live and bear witness to the faith in the Holy Eucharist in Pakistan. We open our heart ...
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  8 April 2022
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - "Mutual trust, listening, sharing" the synodal journey of the parish community of Fés Fés (Agenzia Fides) - "If we wanted to symbolically represent the Catholic Church here in Morocco, it would look like a beautiful Sakura, the majestic tree that gives flowers in every season, and whose roots sink deep i ...
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  8 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Course for missionaries who will work in Brazil begins again in presence, "current and indispensable for evangelizing action" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Intercultural Training Course (CENFI) organized by the Missionary Cultural Center (CCM), an organization linked to the Brazilian Episcopal Conference, has 22 participants, priests, men and ...
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  8 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The Order of Malta operations to help refugees have been extended kyiv (Agenzia Fides) - With more than 12 million people in difficulty in Ukraine, of whom 6.5 million are internally displaced, the network of the Order of Malta is intensifying its aid operations both in Ukraine and in ...
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  7 April 2022
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - The National Director of the PMS: "Sri Lanka needs justice and transparency" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "Our silence is a request for transparency and justice: people need justice. The biggest problem in Sri Lanka today is corruption. The population has lost faith in the political class and its le ...
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  7 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We will kill train passengers if the government does not meet our demands" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are not interested in money, the federal government knows what we are asking for". In a video message posted yesterday, April 6, the group that attacked the train along the Abuja-Kaduna line o ...
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  7 April 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Help children and young people to know better the message of Christ celebrated during Holy Week Maracay (Agenzia Fides) - Msgr. Enrique Parravano, Bishop of Maracay, promotes the "Mosesan" project, Holy Week Movement, an initiative that aims to help children and adolescents aged 8 to 15 to better understand the mes ...
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  7 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Peace and humanitarian aid to avert a preventable famine that is wiping out the population of Tigray Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "The aid that manages to arrive, following the military truce promoted by Prime Minister Abiy (see Fides, 25/3/2022), is not changing the lives of the besieged people and all the services of bas ...
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  7 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Welcoming and supporting others, against the horror of war Zhytomyr (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the ongoing war and all the difficulties, they continue to accompany and work for and with the population". This is what Father Michal Wocial, Salesian missionary of the Poland-Krakow ...