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  14 July 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sisters spokespersons for the most marginalized communities to be at the center of the international debate on development Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The International Union of Superiors General (UISG) has released the second video of the campaign "New Leaders: Sisters Advocating Globally ", to highlight the commitment to tackling the world’s ...
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  14 July 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "The missio ad gentes in the formation of seminarians": this is what is being discussed these days at the IV National Missionary Congress of Seminarians João Pessoa (Agenzia Fides) – More than 350 participants are taking part in the 4th National Missionary Congress of Seminarians, known as 4Cominse, which began last Monday and will continue until next Sunday. The even ...
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  14 July 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Dreaming under the stars": Doctors with Africa CUAMM and Pope John Paul I Padua (Agenzia Fides) - A special meeting will be held tonight, July 14, 2022, in Campo San Martino, Padua, between Doctors with Africa CUAMM and the John Paul I Vatican Foundation. Focus will be on Africa and the next b ...
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  14 July 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - Christians on the Niger-Burkina Faso border: “A life in the face of the cross” Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The Italian-Argentinian priest Carlos Bazzara of the Society for African Missions (SMA) once placed the cross on the top of the hill. The cross, thus marking the border between Niger and Burkina ...
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  13 July 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - In Lui, the dream is of going from weapons to hoes to books Lui (Agenzia Fides) - "True revolutions are born from tenacious work, from sowing day after day, in the midst of efforts, sacrifices and commitment", declared Don Dante Carraro, director of Doctors with Africa CUAMM, on ...
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  13 July 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Inauguration of the new CELAM headquarters, intended "to work and serve the evangelization of all the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "While I invite you to thank God for the happy conclusion of this material work, which can be of help in the realization of projects of evangelization and pastoral formation in support of the Epi ...
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  13 July 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - "To live in frugality and refrain from extravagance" according to the Word of God and the encyclical Laudato Sì Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted" (Jn 6:12): the words of Jesus addressed to his disciples after the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, togeth ...
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  13 July 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Leader of indigenous peoples of 6 countries at the Human Rights school Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - The Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), through the section of Human Rights and International Advocacy, started the third edition of the School for the Promotion of Human Rights on July 4, i ...
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  13 July 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Palestinian President Abbas calls Pope Francis on the eve of Biden's trip to the Middle East Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - On the eve of US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel and Palestine, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas took the initiative to contact Pope Francis by telephone to wish the Pope good health an ...
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  13 July 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The new PMS Director: "A Church of proximity that announces and lives peace" Buea (Agenzia Fides) - "In Cameroon we have 26 dioceses and the missionary work of the Church is in the hands of the Lord, of the college of Bishops, of missionaries, of all the baptized. The Bishops drew up the general ...
• 13 July 2022
  AFRICA/SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - Resignation of the Bishop of São Tomé and Príncipe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of São Tomé and Princípe (São Tomé e Princípe), presented by His Exc. Msgr. Manuel António Mendes d ...
• 12 July 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops invite to moderate the tones in the campaign before the vote on August 9 Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We pray for them that they don't continue like that because everyone from the children are hearing our leaders exchanging words at a time they should be concentrating in building peace", says H ...
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  12 July 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Missionary parishes and the exercise of synodality: a contribution of Catholics to civil and public life Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "The parish we dream of is called to evangelize and be evangelized, to be a community of communities, sustained by the spirituality of communion, to celebrate the mysteries of faith as a source ...
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  12 July 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Despair, illness, death: an existential threat to the people of Tigray. Appeal from the Diocesan Catholic Secretariat of Adigrat Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "I once again urge all the partners involved to continue supporting humanitarian aid for people affected by the war in Tigray in order to respond together to the immense humanitarian need of the ...
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  12 July 2022
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - After two years, the pilgrimage to Santa María Madre de Guayaquil, "Mother of Life, Mother of Peace" resumes Guayaquil (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Guayaquil and the Sanctuary of "Santa María Madre de Guayaquil", after two years in virtual mode, due to the Covid 19 pandemic, are preparing for the VII Pilgrimage to the ...