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  17 May 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Communication Week: "Listening with the ear of the heart" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - For the third consecutive year, Pascom Brasil (Pastoral Care of Communication-Brazil) will celebrate the Week of Communication, in preparation for the 56th World Day of Social Communications, ( ...
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  17 May 2022
  VATICAN - Message of the Holy Father Francis to the Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies gathered in Lyon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We publish below the Message that the Holy Father Francis has sent to the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) on the occasion of the opening of the General Assembly which is taking place in ...
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  17 May 2022
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Beatification of Pauline Jaricot in Lyon: local initiatives and events Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - Lyon is preparing for the beatification celebrations next Sunday for the foundress of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, Pauline Jaricot (see Fides, 3/5/2022). In the course ...
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  16 May 2022
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - A free market in the parish, for the mutual support of the faithful Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "Our 'free market' is not only a bazaar to exchange objects and clothes, but also a place where people meet in a happy atmosphere and help each other", says Nataliya Zykova of the Moscow Catholic ...
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  16 May 2022
  AMERICA/CANADA - The Bishops: "As we prepare to welcome the Holy Father, we continue the journey of healing and reconciliation" Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are immensely grateful that the Holy Father has accepted our invitation to continue the journey of healing and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples of this land. In late July, Pope Francis ...
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  16 May 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "An abyss that only divine love can fill": the canonization of Charles de Foucauld experienced by a missionary of the 'last mile' Gode (Agenzia Fides) - - "I look at Saint Charles de Foucauld, and I am comforted and encouraged in the face of my lack of human efficacy. He insisted on the ordinary, daily life, of living with Jesus under the gaze of t ...
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  16 May 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Murder of two Sikhs in Peshawar: alarm of religious minorities Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - "Religious minorities in Pakistan are continuously persecuted, we are worried for our protection and our future in Pakistan. Members of minority religious communities are attacked and killed. T ...
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  16 May 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "Protection, defense and care of life, not its destruction": decriminalization of assisted suicide approved Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Constitutional Court of Colombia has decided to decriminalize medically assisted suicide. This allows those who request it to have access to a dignified death. Medically assisted suicide is a ...
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  16 May 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The XII General Assembly of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) begins Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "Courage, it's me, do not be afraid!". The reassuring words that Jesus addresses to the Apostles, troubled and uncertain after having seen him walking towards them on the waters, in the Lake of Ti ...
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  16 May 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The role of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the growth of the living and active faith of the local Church Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pontifical Mission Societies can be defined as the four evangelical arms of the Holy Father in carrying out the mission of the Church that Jesus Christ began on earth". This is how Father Pontian K ...
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  9 May 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Peru has a new blessed: Sister Aguchita, heroic missionary, witness to the martyrdom of the Gospel of justice and peace in the Peruvian jungle San Ramon (Agenzia Fides) - "Yesterday in San Ramón (Peru), Sister María Agostina Rivas López, known as Aguchita, a nun of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, who was killed in hatred of the ...
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  9 May 2022
  VATICAN - On the beatification of Pauline Jaricot: first screening and presentation of the short film "To look from above" Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - The short film of the forthcoming beatification of Pauline Jaricot made by Fides on behalf of the Pontifical Mission Societies is entitled "To look from above". The presentation, which will be ...
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  9 May 2022
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Taza Province: Church aid projects for children and elders in the north of the country Taza (Agenzia Fides) - A dozen families in the city of Taza, in the northeastern mountain range of Morocco, have received assistance and support services for their children aged 7 to 12. Thanks to a project led by Sister ...
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  9 May 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Consecrated life, a gift for the Church and society Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The vocation to consecrated life is an invaluable gift for the Church and for all Indonesian society: this was witnessed by priests, religious and nuns of the parishes of the archipelago in the ...
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  9 May 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops meet presidential candidates: continue to work for the common good, integral development and work Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - Monsignor Héctor Fabio Henao Gaviria, delegate of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia (CEC) for relations between Church and State, presented the results of the meetings that took place betwee ...