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  24 May 2022
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Pauline Jaricot's Living Rosary on an App Paris (Agenzia Fides) - "I want you to pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary": these are the words of the Virgin in Fatima, who appeared to three children to ask the whole world to pray the rosary. ...
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  24 May 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society groups call for inclusive census and electoral reform Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Confidence in a new population census can only be based on adequate preparation and participatory responsibility to guarantee a rapid, transparent and credible census. The results of the 6th ce ...
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  24 May 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - The Church of Niger needs effective support: the missionaries are present despite the current insecurity Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - - "To bear witness to our missionary charism in the diocese of Niamey through the study of local languages and cultures, to facilitate Islamic-Christian dialogue, to take care of the poorest and t ...
• 24 May 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Christian Association of Nigeria: "The State must protect the Bishop of Sokoto" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "When we learnt that a Catholic church was attacked in Sokoto, it became clear that that attack was on Bishop Matthew Kukah because he is the one who is like a voice to the voiceless in this count ...
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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 ...