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• 4 April 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Resignation of the Bishop of Inhambane and appointment Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Inhambane (Mozambique) presented by His Exc. Msgr. Adriano Langa, O.F.M.. The Holy Father has a ...
• 4 April 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Bishop of Lodwar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Fr. John Mbinda, C.S.Sp., former Provincial Superior of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit in Kenya and South Sudan, as Bishop of the Diocese of Lodwa ...
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  4 April 2022
  AMERICA/CANADA - The dialogue between Catholic Bishops and indigenous delegates continues, to achieve "a brighter future" Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply grateful to each of the indigenous delegates who came with us to the Holy See to share their experiences and their wishes for a better future for their people", said the President ...
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  4 April 2022
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Society of Africa Missions wants to ensure educational opportunities in rural areas Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "The level of education in Liberia differs greatly between urban and rural areas. In the rural areas we are disadvantaged, we have no help from the Ministry", says Joseph Vayombo, director of the � ...
• 4 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Christian denominations of Kaduna: "No to the hypothesis of hiring foreign mercenaries to fight against terrorists" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are surprised by the news reported by some newspapers according to which governor Nasir el-Rufai has threatened to deploy foreign mercenaries if the federal government fails to fight banditry ...
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  4 April 2022
  EUROPE/MALTA - Pope Francis: The mission of the Church always begins again as a "new start" and a "return to the sources" Gozo (Agenzia Fides) - "The joy of the Church is to evangelize". And faith in Christ and the same apostolic mission entrusted to the Church can only be renewed and persevere over time if the experience of the first encou ...
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  2 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "Let's take care of our Common Home!" theme of the first meeting of Indigenous Ecology Belem de Solimões (Agenzia Fides) - The first Indigenous Ecology Meeting was held from March 27 to 30, 2022, organized by the Association of Artistic and Cultural Development of the Indigenous Village of Belém do Solim ...
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  2 April 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - New "men of the peripheries" in the Church of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh city (Agenzia Fides) - Deacons are "gatherers in the Lord's rice field", Samaritans, prophets, pastors at the service of the ecclesial community in the Asian country. The gift of 61 new deacons revitalizes th ...
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  2 April 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "Living the Gospel and accompanying young people": inauguration of a new community of the Missionaries of Mary Garoua (Agenzia Fides) - "For some years we have been planning to open a new community of the Missionaries of Mary in Cameroon: we will live in the midst of a Muslim majority people. Jesus, Light of the nations, wants to ...
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  2 April 2022
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - What does God want from the young people of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan? Samarkand (Agenzia Fides) - Meeting the young Catholics of Central Asia, understanding their spiritual needs, giving them the proclamation of Christ: these are the objectives of the diocesan meeting of young people from ...
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  2 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY: "BACK TO THE COMIGI: Mission restarts from the future", the Missio Giovani conference kicks off on April 22 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting with the Holy Father will open the awaited appointment of the VI edition of CO.MI.GI., the Youth Missionary Conference which returns in presence this year after the "forced pause" dicta ...
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  2 April 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to Canadian indigenous peoples: the Christian faith cannot be transmitted in a way contrary to the faith itself Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christian faith cannot be confessed, witnessed and communicated to others with methods and tools that are foreign and contrary to the dynamics of the faith itself. Pope Francis repeated this in h ...
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  2 April 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The commitment to the formation of the new generations of the Catholic Missionary Institute of Abidjan Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - ICMA, the Catholic Missionary Institute of Abidjan, was consecrated to Mary Our Lady of Evangelization last March 19 on the feast of St. Joseph. The rite at the end of the Holy Mass which conclu ...
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  2 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The peace march of Italian civil society arrives in Lviv Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "The ongoing conflict evokes the ghost of a past which was considered definitively archived. Instead the bombs, the destruction, the Ukrainian and Russian deaths, the devastation of recent weeks ha ...
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  1 April 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic Church and United Nations in Arauca: dialogue and processes to support victims are needed Arauca (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of the Catholic Church and the United Nations visited the territory of the Department of Arauca in view of the renewed outbreak of fighting between armed groups, which has caused ...