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  23 February 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The "Lent Calendar" of the Catholics of the parish of Hancheng Tangshan (Agenzia Fides) - After the Ash Wednesday liturgy, which marks the beginning of the Lenten season, the parishioners of Hancheng church, in Tangshan, Hebei province, received a calendar card with forty suggestion ...
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  23 February 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops: “Counter poverty with measures to combat insecurity and promote agriculture” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - " The legitimacy of government depends on its capacity to protect life and property" emphasize the Nigerian Bishops in the final declaration of their first general assembly in 2024. The Catholic B ...
• 23 February 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Bangassou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, O.C.D., until now director of Caritas for the diocese of Bouar, as coadjutor bishop of Bangassou, Central African Republic. ...
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  23 February 2024
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Cardinal Marengo: “Lent is about prayer and reconciliation” Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - "Our small Catholic community in Mongolia is experiencing this season of Lent with great intensity. The nine parish communities have launched their pastoral and spiritual programs. We have t ...
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  22 February 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Ecumenical WCAL-Group: "Unbearable atrocities" waged against Palestinians in Gaza Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - In Gaza and other parts of Palestine there are "unbearable and inhuman atrocities" waged against Palestinians. Atrocities resulting "in a death toll surpassing 28,000 civilians, with over two-thi ...
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  22 February 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - Church helps migrants and asylum seekers Accra (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to the drama in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, there are many other situations of displacement and people seeking refuge that deserve the attention of international institutions. This is ...
• 22 February 2024
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Erection of the diocese of Boké, Guinea, and appointment of first bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Boké, Guinea, with territory taken from the archdiocese of Conakry. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Moïse Tinguiano, of the cler ...
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  22 February 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Naval agreement between Somalia and Turkey to counter the one between Ethiopia and Somaliland? Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Somalia does not want foreign powers to fight on its territory," said Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, assuring that the naval military agreement approved yesterday February 21st (but ...
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  21 February 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Popular Mission”: Action week aims to promote priestly and religious vocations Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - The vocation crisis has also become an acute problem for the Asian churches, where so many young people have recently chosen priestly and religious life. In the Philippines, church communities are ...
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  21 February 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The ten-month war has devastated the country Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The war that broke out in Sudan ten months ago has triggered a devastating humanitarian crisis. As of January 2024, there were over 10.7 million displaced people, the largest displacement crisi ...
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  21 February 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Gorom: Precarious conditions in refugee camps Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The most basic services are lacking, refugees in the Gorom camp, west of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are struggling to get food," report local sources, given the deteriorating conditions ...
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  20 February 2024
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Zimbabwean bishops warn of increasing poverty in their Country Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Another Bishops' Conference in Africa warns that the government's economic policies are worsening the poverty in which the majority of the population lives. Like the Bishops of Nigeria (see Fides ...
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  20 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - The synod with the outcasts Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The "outcasts", known as Dalits or "casteless", are those excluded from Indian society, marginalized by a caste system rooted for thousand of years. Although the Constitution has formally abol ...
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  20 February 2024
  VATICAN - Present and future of the "Missio ad gentes" at the center of the Course for the English-speaking directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - About thirty diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), mostly from the African continent, are participating in the missionary formation course that opened yesterday afternoon ...
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  20 February 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako, message to the Chaldeans: Iraqi Christians are also infected by sectarianism Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Sectarianism is destroying the sense of belonging of the Iraqi nation, and even Christians are are "drawn into these sectarian logics and its divisions". For them, a fragile minority community, th ...