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  24 May 2022
  VATICAN - Pontifical Mission Societies: Shaping the future with a view to the history of its origins Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - A new awareness of being baptized and sent, and therefore "missionary disciples" of Christ, is to be born from the roots of its own genesis and looking at the life of Blessed Pauline Jaricot: this ...
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  24 May 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Association of Middle Eastern theological faculties renews its leadership Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The delegated members of the Association of Faculties and Institutes of Theology of the Middle East, gathered in assembly on May 22 and 23 in Egypt, at the Coptic Catholic Seminary in the Cairo di ...
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  24 May 2022
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes: "The Church is a teacher of dialogue, reconciliation and forgiveness, because that is what Jesus taught us" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us give God the opportunity to reach our hearts, let us give God the opportunity to be the center of our lives, in a special way to our Mother", urged Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop o ...
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  24 May 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Catechists, servants of the synodal spirit, to build a more fraternal Chile Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The National Commission for Catechesis, in view of the "Day of the Catechist 2022", which will be celebrated in Chile on Saturday 28 May, the eve of the Ascension of the Lord, invited catechist ...
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  23 May 2022
  VATICAN - Pauline Jaricot is blessed: "She loved Christ, letting Him act through her" Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - Pauline Marie Jaricot (1799-1862), the citizen of Lyon, foundress of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, one of the four Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), was proclaimed bles ...
• 23 May 2022
  OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Appointment of the Bishop of Christchurch, Msgr. Michael Andrew Gielen Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 21, 2022, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Michael Andrew Gielen, until now titular of Abbir Maius and auxiliary of Auckland, as bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand. (SL) (Agenzia Fi ...
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  23 May 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - After the latest crimes, the Bishops ask "once again everyone to lay down their weapons and put an end to all forms of violence" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "All the limits of violence and human respect are overcome when a man of God is attacked and another is attacked within the house of the Lord, who deserves all our respect. We ask everyone o ...
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  23 May 2022
  AFRICA - Food emergency in the Horn of Africa: the worst drought in the last forty years Gode (Agenzia Fides) - "We are running out of time, we need funds to save lives". The undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, Martin Griffiths, returning from a very recent visit to Kenya, has raised a very strong alarm ...
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  23 May 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: May Pauline Jaricot's example arouse in everyone the desire to participate in spreading the Gospel in the world Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - " This afternoon in Lyon, Pauline Marie Jericot, Foundress of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith for the support of the missions, will be beatified", recalled Pope Francis yesterda ...
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  23 May 2022
  VATICAN - The Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith confirmed in its charism and activity Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - "The beatification of Pauline Marie Jaricot is a confirmation of the importance of the charism of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith for the Church and underscores the unique n ...
• 23 May 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Allow me to visit the people who live in the bushes" asks the new Bishop of Yei Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Allow me to visit the people who live in the bushes", said the new consecrated Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Yei on May 15, 2022, Msgr. Alex Lodiong Sakor Eyobo. "I would like to appeal to the ...
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  23 May 2022
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Bishop of Matagalpa "finds himself confined, in prayer and fasting"; solidarity from Costa Rica and Panama Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Managua "publicly reaffirms its closeness in prayer to all the people and families who suffer from the effects of the socio-political problems in which we Nicaraguans continue ...
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  23 May 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Theological faculties in the Middle East relaunch their mission: to announce the Gospel by listening to the "signs of the times" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The common reflection of Christian theologians who live and work in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa can nourish the communion between the Churches and ecclesial communities of th ...
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  21 May 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Listening and walking together": opening of the Laudato Sì week 2022 Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - In the context of the seventh anniversary of the Encyclical "Laudato Sì", of Pope Francis, the Argentine Church is celebrating, from May 22 to 29, "Laudato Sí Week 2022". On Sunday, May 2 ...
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  21 May 2022
  VATICAN - The Pontifical Missionary Union: Formation, animation and missionary awareness with a fraternal and synodal style Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - "I will speak in Italian, the language of Blessed Paolo Manna, founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU)!": This is how Father Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen, Secretary General of the PMU began his ...