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  18 March 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Adolescent Project: protecting the health of pregnant adolescents Aber (Agenzia Fides) - In Uganda, girls are forced to drop out of school due to early pregnancies, "a phenomenon that is still widespread in the country which has serious repercussions on the lives of young girls and is ...
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  18 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Orionini: "Determined not to leave our people, our mission, we are working day and night on the charity front" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The scenes of thousands of people fleeing, which you see on television, we see live, every day, every night, when someone suddenly arrives with desperation on their faces, the tiredness of three/f ...
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  18 March 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Solidarity and support of the Bishops of Nueva Pamplona to the communities of Arauca affected by violence Arauca (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Nueva Pamplona visited the diocese of Arauca to express their support and closeness to the Bishop of this jurisdiction, Monsignor Jaime Cristóbal Ab ...
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  18 March 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Filipino Bishops will join the Pope in consecrating Russia and Ukraine to Our Lady Manila (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25, the Filipino Bishops will join Pope Francis in the solemn act of consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which will take place during a penitential celebr ...
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  18 March 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The government is counting on the Church to promote inter-religious harmony Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Republic of Indonesia expects the Catholic Church to promote religious moderation and count on the precious contribution of Catholics to sow harmony, respect, tolerance, fr ...
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  17 March 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Orthodox Church commemorates Patriarch Shenuda III on the 10th anniversary of his death Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "He taught us not to complain, seeing that he never complained, despite the many difficult circumstances he went through". With these words, the Egyptian priest Antonios Thabet, of the Coptic Orth ...
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  17 March 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - Concrete solidarity of Catholic women with the victims of the Apiatse explosion Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "It takes time to overcome the sorrowful repercussions of situations like the disaster you have suffered", said His Exc. Msgr. John Baptist Attakruh, Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, addressing the vic ...
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  17 March 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Tigray still deprived of humanitarian aid: lack of food and health facilities Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Tigray is catastrophic, the region has been isolated from the rest of the world for 500 days now", accuses Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health ...
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  17 March 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - Redemptorist seminarians interrupt their studies to work with Caritas on the Ukrainian border Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Seminarians from the Redemptorist Major Seminary of Tuchow, in the district of Tarnów, Poland, have volunteered to work on the Polish-Ukrainian border, in Zosin for more than a week. They temporar ...
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  17 March 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Towards the National Missionary Congress 2024: the First Regional Congress is held in Pereira Pereira (Agenzia Fides) - With the slogan "With Missionary Mary, beyond the borders", the First Regional Missionary Congress will be held in the city of Pereira from March18 to 20, which seeks to keep alive the concern f ...
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  17 March 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The diocesan process for the beatification of the young Akash Bashir begins Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no greater love than giving one's life for one's friends. These are the words of Jesus, who was the first to give his life for his friends and we learn this from him. Akash Bashir, a yo ...
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  17 March 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - A Constitution with a norm on free abortion cannot be felt and accepted as its own by many Chileans Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "A political Constitution with a norm on free abortion cannot be felt and accepted as its own by many Chileans, including many people who profess a religious faith, since respect for human life ...
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  16 March 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - President Aoun will visit Pope Francis on March 21 Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanese President Michel Aoun will be received in audience by Pope Francis on Monday, March 21. The date of the upcoming meeting between the Pope and the Lebanese Head of State was announced by ...
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  16 March 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Cross vandalized in Mumbai Mumbai (Agenzia Fides) - With an act of vandalism, the monument of Christ Crucified located in front of Pavan Hans, in the west of Mumbai, capital of the Indian state of Maharastra, was intentionally damaged by unknown p ...
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  16 March 2022
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Casamance: Sant'Egidio calls for the end of military operations and a willingness to negotiate Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply concerned about the armed conflict that is currently taking place in northern Casamance", declares the Community of Sant'Egidio, which for years has acted as a mediator for peace be ...