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  4 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - On the occasion of the start of Lent, the Bishops have multiplied their appeals for peace and reconciliation Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Building peace through mutual forgiveness and education. This is the appeal launched in their Lenten messages by various Bishops in Nigeria. "Our leaders here in the north should make education th ...
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  4 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - "We are desperate but we are not afraid, we are very determined, all of us" says Fr. Mikola from Lviv Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "The war started only a few days ago, everything works normally here, shops are open, public transport works. The situation is calm but we are preparing. There are also air warnings but at the mome ...
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  4 March 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Lenten campaign "for an education that promotes universal brotherhood and integral humanism" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The 2022 Fraternity Campaign (FC), launched by the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) on Ash Wednesday, has as its theme: "Fraternity and Education" and the biblical motto, inspire ...
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  4 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Welcome, compassion, prayer: "We live with the spirit of Job" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "In the midst of suffering, hardship, war, we, Franciscan friars of the Province of St. Michael the Archangel, continue to serve the poorest and most suffering people in the city of Konotop with ...
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  4 March 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Camillians offer the structure of a seminary and a parish to displaced Ukrainians Burakow (Agenzia Fides) - Camillian Disaster Service International (CADIS), in collaboration with other Camillian and non-Camillian organizations is also mobilizing to support the Ukrainian emergency. Specifically, the C ...
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  3 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Families and disabled people fleeing Ukraine are welcomed in the Orionine communities of Poland and Italy Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In our homes in Poland we have prepared several hundred places for refugees. Families with children with their orphanage guardians are brought to these centers. The confreres, in collaboration wit ...
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  3 March 2022
  ASIA/SYRIA - Orthodox Church of Antioch: the war in Ukraine tears apart peoples "born from the same baptismal font" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - For the end of the "painful events" in Ukraine, the Bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church want to look at the "spiritual ties between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, born from the same baptis ...
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  3 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Franciscan friars: "God's grace saved the city from devastation" Konotop (Agenzia Fides) - "Currently the city of Konotop is under siege and at all entrances there are Russian checkpoints that prohibit civilians from leaving the city and do not allow the delivery of food and medicine. ...
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  3 March 2022
  AFRICA - Alarm in several African countries over the skyrocketing price of wheat due to the war in Ukraine Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Cereal prices are soaring due to the war in Ukraine. On the Chicago Commodity Exchange, a world reference point for cereals, wheat futures stand at $ 1,134 per bushel (Anglo-Saxon unit of measureme ...
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  3 March 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "United in prayers for justice and peace": the first Lenten campaign begins in the diocese of Tombura Yambio Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "Celebrate our differences, promote our unity, heal our wounds and renew our country. Lent is just around the corner", says the Bishop of the Diocese of Tombura Yambio, Msgr. Eduardo Hiib ...
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  3 March 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - “We must look beyond ourselves and do good” La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "In our world and in our social and cultural context, we are called to sow the seeds of peace, justice and reconciliation. In order to reap these fruits, the seed of violence and war, the seed of ...
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  3 March 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society remembers the Catholic minister Shahbaz Bhatti on the 11th anniversary of his death Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - Christian, Muslim and Hindu faithful, civil society leaders and members of human rights organizations paid tribute to the late Federal Minister for Minority Affairs, the Catholic Clement Shahbaz ...
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  2 March 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Bishop Dell'Oro: "We are all children of God" Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - "Faced with what is happening in Ukraine, I believe that the obligation of each of us must be to offer our neighbor a perspective that is not political. Here in Karaganda there are people of 1 ...
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  2 March 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Church kicks off the "Synod of women" Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The appointment is for Saturday, March 5 in Bkerké, at the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchate. In that framework, and in the presence of the Maronite Patriarch Béchara Boutros Raï, the ...
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  2 March 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - "Women want and demand peace, since it is an inalienable human right": manifesto of the International Network of Women Catholic Leaders Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent Russian invasion of Ukraine endangers the life, development and potential of hundreds of thousands of women and girls who live on Ukrainian soil, destabilizing their most precious a ...