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  21 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Cardinal Berhaneyesus: “Through the Cross of Christ we can conquer hatred with love” Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "Faith in the Resurrection of Christ gives every Christian and all humanity the strength to conquer all evil and sin", said Cardinal Berhaneyesus in the official message delivered to all pub ...
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  21 April 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - In the first months of 2022, 127 episodes of violence against Christians in India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - At least 127 episodes of violence against Christians in India were recorded in the first 103 days of 2022: this is stated in a report released by the United Christian Forum (UCF), an ecumenica ...
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  21 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The cry for help from the Yanomami communities and indigenous reservations Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Faithful to its mystical and prophetic commitment to the cry of the poor and the earth, the Special Pastoral Episcopal Commission for the Fight against Human Trafficking (CEPEETH) expresses it ...
• 20 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Resignation of bishop of Warri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - on April 18, 2022 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Warri, Nigeria, presented by Bishop John Oke’ Afareha. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 20/4/2022) ...
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  20 April 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Franciscan religious killed in church after the Easter vigil La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "Given the news of the robbery in the convent of San Francisco in the city of Santa Cruz and the violent murder of Friar Wilberth Daza Rodas OFM, our Church is in mourning and dismayed by the eve ...
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  20 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Intentional mass starvation": humanitarian truce in Tigray is at stake Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans are dying of hunger. The humanitarian truce that began on March 24 is already at stake. The government has allowed only one aid convoy to enter Tigray, the ...
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  20 April 2022
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The Pope in Kazakhstan to give "senim" and say that peace is possible Milan (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pope's trip to Kazakhstan is very important news and has many links with the current crisis". This is what Father Edoardo Canetta, former Apostolic Vicar of Central Asia, told Fides, a missio ...
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  20 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Conflicts over land, water, work: they often do not find space in the media Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The annual report prepared by the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) registered 1,768 conflicts in 2021, 13.92% less than in 2020. These are situations related to land, water and labor rights, whic ...
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  20 April 2022
  AFRICA - The Comboni Missionaries: 150 years of love for the mission Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "The Congregation of the Pious Mothers of Nigrizia, now known as the Comboni Missionary Sisters, took its first steps on January 1, 1872. The day before, Maria Caspi had crossed the threshold of ...
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  20 April 2022
  ASIA/RUSSIA - Easter in Siberia: a community experiences the Eucharist and prays for peace Novosibirsk (Agenzia Fides) - An Easter lived in the intensity of prayer and with the "certain hope" of the Resurrection: this is how the community of the faithful of the diocese of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk, in ...
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  20 April 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Violence in Arauca even at Easter: four people killed, including two children Arauca (Agenzia Fides) - "Every death afflicts us. But even more the death and injury of children, our children, who are completely innocent of this crazy wave of violence to which the region has been subjected, especial ...
• 13 April 2022
  AFRICA/SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 10, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Santo Gaba Samuel, of the diocesan clergy of Tombura-Ya ...
• 13 April 2022
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, rev. Jean Claude Rakotoarisoa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 14, 2021, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Jean Claude Rakotoarisoa, of the diocesan clergy of T ...
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  13 April 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Artemide Zatti, the first Salesian Brother, consecrated, but not a priest - to be proclaimed a Saint: a message of hope Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 April 2022, during the Audience granted to His Eminence Most Reverend Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Supreme Pontiff authorized the same ...
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  13 April 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - The synodal journey of the sisters of Leshan, in the footsteps of the "Woman among women" Leshan (Agenzia Fides) - In the footsteps of "Woman among women", the sisters of the diocesan Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Our Lady, of the diocese of Kiating (today Leshan), in the province of Sichuan in mainland ...