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  30 March 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - Bishops of the "Nineveh Council": Christians could boycott the upcoming elections Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Churches present in Mosul and in the Nineveh Plain, in a striking initiative, have announced the possible boycott of the next rounds of elections by the Christian component of t ...
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  30 March 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Gospel translated into the Cuyonon language, to "connect with God" Puerto Princesa (Agenzia Fides) - Making the Gospel understandable and "connecting with God" the populations who speak the indigenous Cuyonon language, settled mainly on the island of Palawan and on other islands in the ...
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  30 March 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Formation activities for catechists and lay people resume after three years of difficulties linked to the pandemic Liaoning (Agenzia Fides) - Three years have passed since the life of the Catholic community in China began to be conditioned and, so to speak, "slowed down" due to the Covid 19 pandemic. At last now many ordinary activit ...
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  30 March 2023
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Migrants who died in Ciudad Juárez: "a sad reality that deeply challenges us all" Ciudad Juarez (Agenzia Fides) - "A sad reality that challenges us, all of us, profoundly, that does not leave us alone", underlined the Bishop of Ciudad Juárez, Monsignor José Guadalupe Torres Campos, when celebrating ...
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  30 March 2023
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - From Church founded by missionaries to missionary Church Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Out of a population of 19 million inhabitants, about 40% is Catholic, with variations from one diocese to another, according to the history of evangelization in each area", says to Fides Msgr. I ...
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  30 March 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Drought emergency in Turkana County: the population is in danger of a serious humanitarian crisis Lodwar (Agenzia Fides) - While anti-government riots against the high cost of living continue throughout the country (see Fides, 28/3/2023), the population of northern Kenya, in addition to the consequences of the Covid- ...
• 30 March 2023
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Puerto Carreño Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Fr. Álvaro Mon Pérez, C.Ss.R., until now chaplain of the Colegio Seminario Redentorista San Clemente in Manizales, as vicar apostolic of ...
• 30 March 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Aizawl Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Joachim Walder, of the clergy of Aizawl, until now episcopal vicar of the Barak Valley Region, as auxiliary of the diocese of Aizawl, assi ...
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  29 March 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: only the encounter with Jesus changes hearts and also frees us from a "Christianity without Christ" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - One becomes a Christian and proclaims the Gospel with passion, not because he studies the Bible or theology, but only through a real encounter with Jesus, who when he enters our lives "changes ever ...
• 29 March 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appointment of the Bishop of Loikaw, Celso Ba Shwe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Rev. Celso Ba Shwe, of the clergy of Loikaw, currently Diocesan Administrator as Bishop of the Diocese of Loikaw (Myanmar). His Exc. Msgr. Celso Ba S ...
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  29 March 2023
  ASIA/KYRGYZSTAN - New details on the intervention of armed agents in the Catholic church of Talas Talas (Agenzia Fides) - In the last few hours, new details have emerged that clarify the dynamics and scope of the events that took place on Sunday March 26 in the Catholic parish of Saint Nicholas in Talas, Kyrgyzstan ( ...
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  29 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The scourge of the kidnappings of priests in Nigeria is part of a larger phenomenon Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - From 2006 to 2023, 53 priests in Nigeria have been kidnapped, 12 attacked and 16 killed. In seventeen years, 81 priests in Nigeria have been victims of attacks. These are the data reported to Fide ...
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  29 March 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Father Jean-Yves Médidor: "During the days of the kidnapping, the strength of prayer sustained me" Croix des Bouquets (Agenzia Fides) - A week after his release, Father Jean-Yves Médidor, a missionary of the Clerics of Saint Viator kidnapped in Croix des Bouquets on March 10, told Agenzia Fides the ordeal of his kidn ...
• 29 March 2023
  EUROPE/MALTA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Victor Agius Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 16, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Rev. Victor Victor as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Malta for a five-year period (2023-2028) ...
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  29 March 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - The fifth peace caravan towards Ukraine is underway: "We are not resigned to war" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Palm Sunday, which in the Christian, Catholic and Orthodox tradition has a strong symbolic meaning of peace, the volunteers of the fifth peace caravan "Stopthewarnow" will spend it in Ukraine, a ...