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• 14 February 2022
  AFRICA/BENIN - Appointment of Bishop of Djougou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 12, 2022, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Fr. Bernard de Clairvaux Toha Wontacien, O.S.F.S., until now provincial superior of the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales in Be ...
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  12 February 2022
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The new Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco takes office in Algiers: "our Blessed are light on our path" Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - An Algerian Church "allied without repentance", which shares all the joys and sorrows of the Algerian people without claiming privileges, and wants to imitate the "discretion" of Jesus at the we ...
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  12 February 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society to the government: Give public recognition to Akash Bashir, the Servant of God Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask the government of Pakistan to award our Christian martyr Akash Bashir one of the highest civil awards for his courage. It has been almost 7 years since Akash Bashir sacrificed his life a ...
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  12 February 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - A new Lasallian school: "The service of education is part of the evangelical mission" Homa Bay (Agenzia Fides) - "Building a school in the awareness of the preciousness of the service of education is part of the evangelical mission to give dignity to people, to evangelize communities". This is what Brothe ...
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  12 February 2022
  VATICAN - Korea and its young missionaries among the themes of the latest POSI bulletin scheduled for the 2022 celebrations Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - In 1965 the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI) was officially founded in Korea and has been operating at full capacity since 1987, giving life to an ever more dynamic and growing re ...
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  12 February 2022
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Pauline Jaricot at the center of the last day of the meeting of the European Directors of the PMS Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Paulina Jaricot is a source of inspiration for us today", said Father Tadeusz Jan Nowak, OMI, Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, during the meeting of ...
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  12 February 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Brave and creative young people, a sign of hope for Venezuela Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of Adolescence and Youth of the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference, through the National Youth Program and Youth Pastoral Days, invites all young people to joyfully celebrate the 16th ...
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  10 February 2022
  VATICAN - Service to the sick, an integral part of the Church's evangelizing mission Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church which, following the example of Christ, has always felt over the centuries the duty of service towards the sick and suffering as an integral part of her mission, is aware that i ...
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  10 February 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - The ancient Monastery of Sumela used as a disco for an electronic music video. The government opens an investigation Trabzon (Agenzia Fides) - The ancient Monastery of Sumela, located in the province of Trabzon and closed for years to visitors because it has undergone demanding restoration works, was used as a setting to create an elec ...
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  10 February 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Human trafficking, an ancient crime that makes use of modern social media Pretoria (Agenzia Fides) - "Trafficking is not just being taken from one country to another country and then become a slave. Trafficking is when someone owns someone else’s life and exploiting it", said Jacqueline Four ...
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  10 February 2022
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - A hundred years of mission for the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - For a century, the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel have been working for the proclamation of the Gospel and for the missio ad gentes, offering quality education and committing themselves to the ...
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  10 February 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Attention and respect: the health care of Camillian missionaries towards the most vulnerable sections of the population Karungu (Agenzia Fides) - "All the sick have the right to care, adequate assistance and respect". This is the goal of the St. Camillus Mission Hospital in Karungu (see Fides, 26/11/2004). The hospital, founded and run by ...
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  10 February 2022
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Australian Church urges the government: "To welcome more Afghan refugees" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The scale of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan requires the urgent creation of additional places in Australia’s humanitarian intake. This is why the Bishops, together with other members o ...
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  10 February 2022
  AMERICA/CUBA - The catechists of Ciego de Ávila on the 25th anniversary of the diocese: "do not transmit concepts, but faith" Ciego de Ávila (Agenzia Fides) - Within the framework of the 25th anniversary of the Cuban diocese of Ciego de Ávila, erected on February 2, 1996, the different pastoral areas celebrated the jubilee together with the c ...
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  9 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The contribution of the Catholic University Alumni geared to improve special needs education Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We have resolved that this year, we should assist the project that the University embarked on in buying materials for the special needs laboratory at the main campus in Nguludi", said Nohara C ...