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  1 June 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church celebrates the entry into Egypt of the Holy Family Sakhā (Agenzia Fides) - People who follow Jesus consecrate their family to the Lord, so that he protects them from the dangers of the present time, and preserves their path in love, sharing and freedom. This is how Copt ...
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  1 June 2022
  EUROPE/HUNGARY - The reception of Ukrainian refugees has become an integral part of the life of the Salesian community of Kazincbarcika Kazincbarcika (Agenzia Fides) - Kazincbarcika is a city in northern Hungary, where the Salesians run a parish, a Salesian house, two schools, a dormitory and various other apostolic activities, with which they take care ...
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  1 June 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - Polish and Ukrainian religious institutions offer help to the Ukrainian people Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - There are many religious institutions in Poland and Ukraine that offer help and comfort to the Ukrainian people wounded by the ongoing conflict. Many of them carry out a hidden and silent and yet ...
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  1 June 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Russian faithful in prayer with the Pope to ask for the gift of peace Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "If God is among us, we may encounter difficulties and unforeseeable circumstances, but we will not lose what is most important. And what counts most is the relationship with God: those bonds wit ...
• 1 June 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops’ appeal a few weeks before Pope Francis' visit: "Stop the war in North Kivu" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The nightmare of war has been going on for too long. We ask the belligerents to return to reason", exhort the Bishops of CENCO (National Episcopal Conference of the Congo), in a statement in w ...
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  31 May 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Diploma in Communication and Catholic Media: "A difficult mission for which we must prepare" San Josè (Agenzia Fides) - According to information published by the Episcopal Conference, which reached Fides, the objective is to make communication in the local Church more professional. Monsignor Daniel Francisco Bl ...
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  31 May 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Father Canetta: a new treaty to end the war in Europe Milan (Agenzia Fides) - "To try to unblock a very difficult negotiation, it is necessary to start from a proposal that can represent a starting platform. The proposal could be that of a new treaty, like the "Collective S ...
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  31 May 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Reducing Poverty and Improving Food Security in Baringo County, severely affected by climate change Baringo (Agenzia Fides) - Reducing poverty and building community resilience by improving food security and responding to climate change in Baringo County is the goal of a post-Covid-19 project, launched in May 2021, by ...
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  31 May 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians wanted to carry out the most humble jobs: the Punjab government puts an end to this practice Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We welcome the notification from the government of the province of Punjab, issued last week, which states that all government offices will no longer have to indicate, in any announcement or publ ...
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  31 May 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Catholic school in America has a future, but the task ahead is not easy Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - " The Catholic school of America has a future!". With this conviction, the 27th Inter-American Congress of Catholic Education concluded in Mexico City on May 27 and 28, with the participatio ...
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  31 May 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - The General Chapter of the Comboni Missionaries begins Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The XIX General Chapter of the Comboni Missionaries, inspired by the biblical icon "I am the vine, you are the branches" (Jn 15.5), will take place from June 1 to 30, at the General House of the In ...
• 31 May 2022
  ASIA/LAOS - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Paksé Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Andrew Souksavath Nouane Asa, of the clergy of Paksé, Laos, until now apostolic administrator of Paksé, as vicar apostolic of the same vicariate ...
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  31 May 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Celebrations in the Marian shrine Jabal al Tayr: around one million pilgrims expected Samalut (Agenzia Fides) - This year more than one million Egyptian pilgrims, both Coptic Christians and Muslims, are expected at the Marian Monastery-Shrine of Jabal al Tayr, near the city of Samalut, in the Egyptian pro ...
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  30 May 2022
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Monsignor Alvarez: "The only way to grow for a family, for a csociety, is the culture of encounter" Matagalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "Social, matrimonial and community humility and the culture of respect are important, respect for differences, forgiveness is also important... Christ from the cross teaches us forgiveness": u ...
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  30 May 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - The Franciscans: let us ask God for the gift of peace Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "The charism of St. Francis of Assisi is certainly linked in a particular way to the theme of peace, as was the life of Jesus itself: the poor man of Assisi reminded those he met of the importanc ...