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  7 June 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Confusing and inaccurate news about one of the greatest humanitarian tragedies on the planet Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - "Intervene to save the lives of the 18 soldiers who are still in Ethiopia and others who are hiding along the Eritrean border with the country at war" is the latest appeal launched to the United ...
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  7 June 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Peace and tolerance in elections: cooperation agreement signed by religious confessions Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Superior Electoral Court (TSE, Tribunal Superior Electoral) and representatives of various religious realities, including the Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB), signed yesterday, Monday, ...
• 7 June 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest kidnapped, as Nigeria remains shocked over the massacre in the church of Owo Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Although it is still not clear who was responsible for the massacre in the church of Saint Francis Xavier in Owo, Ondo State (south-western Nigeria), which took place on Sunday June 5 (see Fides, ...
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  7 June 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Mar Yakoob III Danil elected new Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Ancient Church of the East has a new Patriarch: Mar Yakoob Danil, currently Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand. The Synod of Bishops of the Ancient Church of the East, convened to ele ...
• 6 June 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "No priest was kidnapped in the assault on the church of Owo" clarifies the diocese of Ondo Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In the attack, which took place yesterday, Sunday June 5, on the Church of Saint Francis of Owo, in Ondo State, no priest was kidnapped. This was announced in a statement sent to Agenzia Fides by ...
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  6 June 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Chocó asks the Pope to intervene to achieve a humanitarian agreement and a solution to the conflict Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, June 4, the Bishop of Quibdó, Monsignor Juan Carlos Barreto, during a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, presented to the Pope the humanitarian crisis and the human rig ...
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  6 June 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Pietro Wu Junwei dies of a heart attack. During the pandemic he had worked to keep churches and activities open Xinjiang (Agenzia Fides) - At 10.30 a.m. on May 10, 2022, His Exc. Msgr. Peter Wu Junwei, Bishop of the Apostolic Prefecture of Xinjiang/Yuncheng, in the Chinese region of Shanxi, died of an acute myocardial infarction a ...
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  6 June 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Mentally disabled Christian accused of blasphemy released on bail Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The granting of bail to Stephen Mashi, a mentally unstable person accused of blasphemy, is a positive measure: a mentally unstable person cannot be accused of anything, because he does not have ...
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  6 June 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - Between precariousness and prayer, the community of Dosso celebrates 40 years of the parish of St. Charles Lwanga Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "We have the great joy of celebrating 40 years of our parish. In 40 years we have experienced many things, we have celebrated joys, but we have also gone through dark times. That is why we thank G ...
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  6 June 2022
  AMERICA - Consecrated Life must be the sower, cultivator and harvester of a new way of being Church Guatapé (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a beautiful occasion to pray together to the God of the ‘call’ and reconfirm that Consecrated Life is a prophetic vanguard and an expansive gift. Let us return to each of our countr ...
• 6 June 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Christian and Muslim religious leaders condemn the massacre in the church of Owo; uncertainty about perpetrators Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - There is still no information on who perpetrated the massacre in the church of St Francis of Owo, in the state of Ondo (south-west of Nigeria), which took place yesterday, Sunday, June 5. This was ...
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  6 June 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: Iraqi Christians are true patriots, they are not a "minority" of "infidels" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Iraqi Christians represent an indigenous community, present in the lands of Mesopotamia well before the birth of Islam. They, with their dedication and creativity, have contributed in a decisive ...
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  3 June 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - 150th anniversary of the founding: Comoni Missionary Sisters and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians celebrate together Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In 2022 the Comboni Missionary Sisters and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians celebrated the 150th anniversary of the founding of their congregations. A brief report sent to Agenzia Fides by ...
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  3 June 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Message to young people for Pentecost: "the times in which we live need you" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The National Commission for Youth Ministry has published a message addressed to young Chileans on the occasion of the solemnity of Pentecost, which has been a highlight of youth ministry in dio ...
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  3 June 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - A small Catholic community in a Muslim country Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "A breath of fresh air in this time when the heat burns us and the monotony of the desert distorts our horizon", was the definition that Father Rafael Casamayor gave of a group of seminarians from ...