News

• 29 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Third priest kidnapped in Nigeria in March Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Father Leo Raphael Ozigi is the third Catholic priest kidnapped in March in Nigeria. Fr. Ozigi, parish priest of the church of St Mary, in the village of Sarkin Pawa, in the local government are ...
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  29 March 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Diocese of Campina Grande inaugurates new seminary Campina Grande (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Campina Grande, in the Brazilian state of Paraiba, inaugurated on Friday March 25th, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord, the Propedeutic Seminary "São José". Durin ...
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  29 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Orionini in Lviv: Missiles fell one kilometer from their monastery Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the afternoon of Saturday, March 26, Lviv was also bombarded around 3:30 p.m. Italian time. Some missiles fell just over a kilometer from the monastery of Orione (see Fides, 25/2/2022). The two ...
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  28 March 2022
  AMERICA - New Presidency of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazonia, CEAMA San Paolo (Agenzia Fides) - The first Ordinary Assembly of 2022 of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) was held in hybrid form (in presence and virtual) in Sao Paulo, Brazil on March 26 and 27. According to th ...
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  28 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - A possible basis for peace talks Milan (Agenzia Fides) - "We have reached a point where the respect due to the thousands of dead and the pain of so many families, both Ukrainian and Russian, absolutely demand a peaceful solution. In the negotiations it ...
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  28 March 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Encourage collaboration between the sisters involved in the communication and dissemination of their work of evangelization Mombasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Nuns are an essential component of the Catholic Church in the particular missionary activity of evangelization", said Msgr. Martin Kivuva Musonde, Archbishop of Mombasa, during a seminar on the ...
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  28 March 2022
  AMERICA/CANADA - Historic trip of Canadian Bishops and indigenous delegates to meet Pope Francis Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of 32 Indigenous Elders, knowledge keepers, residential school survivors, and youth will journey together from across the country, left Canada to meet with Pope Francis in Rome. Thes ...
• 28 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Assault on the airport in Kaduna, capital of the homonymous State where two priests have been kidnapped in recent weeks Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Citizens of the State of Kaduna are tired of the government's rhetorical responses without concrete actions taken to protect lives and property", says the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN, a ...
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  28 March 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - A Protestant Christian pastor killed in Chhattisgarh Bijapur (Agenzia Fides) - A 50-year-old Protestant Christian Pastor was murdered by a group of masked men in the district of Bijapur, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The episode of violence, which took place on Marc ...
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  28 March 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Farewell to Cardinal Antonios Naguib, Patriarch Emeritus of the Catholic Copts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "He was a good pastor for all of us. And for me also a father. He ordained me a priest, and I was the first to receive episcopal ordination from him, in June 1978, when he had been bishop for a fe ...
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  26 March 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - New priests for the Church, hope for the people Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church of Myanmar is wounded and displaced. Priests are the hope of the people. They are the refuge of brothers and sisters who suffer. Myanmar needs reconciliation and dialogue: for this ...
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  26 March 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - Animation activities linked to the anniversaries of the Pontifical Mission Societies Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of people collaborate in missionary animation in the 42 dioceses of Poland, all involved in the many initiatives planned for the anniversaries of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS). ...
• 26 March 2022
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Erection of the Diocese of Tshilomba and appointment of first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25, 2022, the Holy Father erected the diocese of Tshilomba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, with territory taken from the diocese of Luiza, making it a suffragan of the metropol ...
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  26 March 2022
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Education and business training: Comboni missionaries promote opportunities for young people Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The 'Comboni Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center' (Ciec) aims to increase and encourage new skills: it is in fact a business incubator, designed to strengthen social cohesion, offer opportu ...
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  26 March 2022
  AFRICA/TOGO - Work continues on the new Tové dispensary and collaboration between missionaries continues Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - "I was in Tovè in 2005 for a meeting with all the Italian missionary personnel present in Togo, organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies. At that time in the area there was only a small chap ...