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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 ...
• 26 March 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Thousands still flee violence in northern Mozambique Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Killings, beheadings and dismemberment of bodies, sexual violence, kidnappings, forced recruitment by armed groups and torture". These are the war crimes committed by armed groups active in the ...
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  26 March 2022
  AMERICA - Keep praying for the gift of peace, trust in the power of prayer and the intercession of the Virgin Mary Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - On this day when the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord to the Virgin Mary, all the Catholic communities of the continent have joined in the call of Pope Francis to ...
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  25 March 2022
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The day of Mary's "Yes" is the right day for the Consecration of Russia and Ukraine Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "As Bishops of Australia, we join the Holy Father and the faithful around the world in this act of Consecration and invite everyone to join us in prayer for peace in Ukraine. We invite people to ...
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  25 March 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The Archdiocese of Abidjan joins the Pope in the Act of consecration of humanity to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Abdjan (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jean Pierre Kutwa, Metropolitan Archbishop of Abidjan, in a note sent to all the ecclesial realities of the Archdiocese, urges the faithful and all the parishes to unite spiritually in p ...
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  25 March 2022
  AMERICA - "Missionary conversion" at the center of the online Lenten retreat, promoted by the Pontifical Mission Societies Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "In this 3-day Lenten retreat and six meditations, what touches us most on the journey of missionary conversion is the witness of faith, ardor and boundless missionary passion of the founders o ...
• 25 March 2022
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Belarmine Tchipundukwa, MS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 13, 2022 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in A ...