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  11 April 2022
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch Raï: the Pope's visit is a blessing for the people and a wake-up call for those in power Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The announcement of the forthcoming visit of Pope Francis to Lebanon is "a blessing for the people, a hope for the Fatherland and a warning signal for the leaders". This is how the Lebanese Card ...
• 11 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Leo Raphael Ozigi's release confirmed; two priests still in the hands of the kidnappers Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The release of Father Leo Raphael Ozigi, parish priest of St. Mary's Church, Sarkin Pawa Village, Munya Local Government Area, Niger State, kidnapped on Sunday, March 27, has been confirmed (see ...
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  9 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Palm Sunday: national solidarity collection "Fraternity and Education" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - As a concrete gesture of the Fraternity Campaign, every year a national solidarity collection takes place throughout Brazil on Palm Sunday: in 2022 on April 10. Bishops, priests, religious, lay ...
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  9 April 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - The mission ad gentes today Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelization in Poland, the new challenges of the mission ad gentes, young people, the conflict in Ukraine and the Jubilee Year on the occasion of the anniversaries of the Pontifical Mission So ...
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  9 April 2022
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - A new church built thanks to the donations of a Catholic layman Dinajpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic layman Solomon Hasda, a retired policeman of the Santal ethnic group, has donated funds and land to build a church in Chirgaou, in the diocese of Dinajpur, in northern Bangladesh. ...
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  9 April 2022
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The kidnapping of Sister Tennyson, among the six Western hostages in the Sahel, has not yet been claimed Kaya (Agenzia Fides) - The kidnapping of Sister Suellen Tennyson, missionary of the Congregation of the Marianite Sisters of the Holy Cross, kidnapped by force on the night between April 4 and 5, 2022 (see Fides, 6/4/202 ...
• 9 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Hunger, insecurity, desertification will be at the center of the regional meeting of the Bishops of West Africa Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Fratelli Tutti: Path to building human fraternity and sustainable peace in West Africa". This is the theme of the plenary meeting of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) to b ...
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  9 April 2022
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - In a book, the spirituality and missionary legacy of the first Malaysian Cardinal Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The spirituality, the "lesson and missionary legacy" of the first Cardinal of Malaysia are contained in a book entitled: "The Cardinal: The Life and Times of His Eminence Anthony Soter Card ...
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  8 April 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The Order of Malta operations to help refugees have been extended kyiv (Agenzia Fides) - With more than 12 million people in difficulty in Ukraine, of whom 6.5 million are internally displaced, the network of the Order of Malta is intensifying its aid operations both in Ukraine and in ...
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  8 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Course for missionaries who will work in Brazil begins again in presence, "current and indispensable for evangelizing action" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Intercultural Training Course (CENFI) organized by the Missionary Cultural Center (CCM), an organization linked to the Brazilian Episcopal Conference, has 22 participants, priests, men and ...
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  8 April 2022
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - "Mutual trust, listening, sharing" the synodal journey of the parish community of Fés Fés (Agenzia Fides) - "If we wanted to symbolically represent the Catholic Church here in Morocco, it would look like a beautiful Sakura, the majestic tree that gives flowers in every season, and whose roots sink deep i ...
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  8 April 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Eucharist, source of mission Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - "The Eucharist is the source and summit of our life and our mission. We are Eucharistic people, called to live and bear witness to the faith in the Holy Eucharist in Pakistan. We open our heart ...
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  8 April 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A Lent lived by Catholics in the name of charity Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - It is a Lent marked by works of charity that Catholics are experiencing in Vietnam. Practices of charity are promoted with enthusiasm because "faith develops through charity", say the faithful. As ...
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  8 April 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sisters of Charity: 10 years of the Thouret Foundation, on the paths of charity in the peripheries of the world Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Thouret Foundation, an organization inspired by the charism and missionary tradition of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joan Antida Thouret, founded in Besançon, France, on April 11, 1799, cel ...
• 8 April 2022
  AFRICA/BENIN - Christian and Muslim religious leaders held an inter-religious celebration Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "We met in the cathedral to celebrate, at the invitation of the Archbishop with other religious confessions, namely Muslims, Catholic Christians, Protestant Christians, Methodists and the tradit ...