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  9 February 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Meeting of indigenous and peasant catechists: synodality experienced by catechists and their communities Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The 19th meeting of indigenous and peasant catechists promoted by the Pastoral Care for New Evangelization and Catechesis of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM), will be held from 21 to 2 ...
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  9 February 2022
  EUROPE/SPAIN - "Proclaiming Christ in Europe": meeting of the European Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "Proclaiming Christ in Europe, from apostolic times to the third millennium" is the theme of the speech by Father Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen, O.F.M. Conv., Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionar ...
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  9 February 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - For the first time a Coptic Christian becomes President of the Supreme Constitutional Court Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has appointed Coptic Christian judge Boulos Fahmy, currently vice-President of the same institution, as President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egy ...
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  9 February 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The Bishop of Kon Tum: the Dominican killed forgave his murderer Kon Tum (Agenzia Fides) - Before dying, Father Joseph Tran Ngoc Thanh, the 41-year-old Vietnamese Dominican priest killed while celebrating the Sacrament of Reconciliation in the diocese of Kon Tum on January 29, forgave ...
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  9 February 2022
  AFRICA/RWANDA - We want children to go back to school and start living with their parents again Butare (Agenzia Fides) - Child labor, disease, hunger, mistreatment are just some of the contexts in which street children are involved in Rwanda. "They do not go to school, they survive by offering their labor and dedic ...
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  9 February 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops: continue to work for the progress of the country San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Like a family, Costa Rica went to vote on February 6. We congratulate all those who participated in this election day with their vote; as well as all those who put their name to be considered ...
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  9 February 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “The House of Mary”: a charity initiative to give clothes to the poor Tando Adam (Agenzia Fides) - "We go out to reach the poor inspired by charity. We started this initiative thanks to the solidarity spirit of the parishioners, to provide for the needy. I thank God for the maximum support ...
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  8 February 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako teaches Iraqi politicians a lesson, quoting Imam Ali Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law, is considered by the Shiites to be the first Imam. Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako quoted the Muslim scholar as saying at the beginning of his ...
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  8 February 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishop of Buenaventura receives death threats: “Today he is the victim” Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned for the life of Bishop Rubén Darío Jaramillo of Buenaventura, who, as a good pastor and with the pain of his people in his heart, denounced what was happening in th ...
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  8 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Human rights and basic needs: it is an emergency for the most destitute populations hit by tropical storms Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply concerned about the people of the southern and central districts devastated by the recent tropical storm Ana", said the President of the Bishops' Conference of Malawi (ECM), Mgr. ...
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  8 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - "We will stay as long as we have food" say villagers subjected to violence by jihadists Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We will stay as long as we have something to eat", with these words the Italian missionary Father Mauro Armanino of the Society for Africa Missions quotes farmers from the area of Bomoanga, on t ...
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  8 February 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops call for a joint effort to achieve political stability Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the political crisis that Peru has been going through for some time, in addition to the third wave of the Covid 19 pandemic, the ethical, moral and ecological crisis, the Bishops of the ...
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  8 February 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Bishop's Coadjutor of Bac Ninh: pastoral care under the sign of mission Bac Ninh (Agenzia Fides) - "Two aspects that will characterize my pastoral project are contained in my episcopal coat of arms: they are the image of the flame and the rice flower, present and implicit. The flame represen ...
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  8 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The parish priest kidnapped on Sunday, February 6 released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Joseph Danjuma Shekari, Nigerian priest kidnapped on the night of Sunday, February 6, has regained his freedom (see Fides, 7/2/2022). According to a statement from the diocese of Kafanchan ...
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  8 February 2022
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Eucharistic Adoration for the unity of the Church and the unification of Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The unity of the Church, the spiritual well-being of the faithful in the difficult time of the pandemic, the reconciliation and unification of the Korean peninsula have one source: Eucharistic Ado ...