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  23 March 2022
  EUROPE - Interreligious prayer for peace and proposal for a trip of religious leaders to Kiev Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - An interreligious prayer and a moment of silence together to invoke peace in Ukraine: this is the initiative promoted for tomorrow, March 24, by the international association "Religions for Peace ...
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  23 March 2022
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Week for life, to be "defended, promoted, respected and loved" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - From March 20 to 27, the Church in Venezuela celebrates the "Week for Life", on the occasion of the celebration of the Day for Life, which is celebrated on March 25, the Solemnity of the Annunci ...
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  23 March 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - March 24, Missionary Martyrs Day: "Voice of the Word" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Thirty years ago, the Missionary Youth Movement of the Italian Pontifical Mission Societies decided to celebrate every year a "Day of prayer and fasting in memory of the Missionary Martyrs". The da ...
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  23 March 2022
  AFRICA - "We have never stopped taking care of tuberculosis patients": March 24 world tuberculosis day Padua (Agenzia Fides) - "In all the hospitals where we operate, from Rumbek in South Sudan to Wolisso in Ethiopia, passing through Tosamaganga in Tanzania, patients with tuberculosis arrive. In some countries, such as A ...
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  23 March 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Raï reaffirms perspective of Lebanon's “neutrality” Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Only if Lebanon is neutral in relation to the global and regional balance of power confronting it in the Middle East will it be possible for Lebanon to "regain its position" and its positive role ...
• 23 March 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - "No ethnic group is too small to be unable to contribute to the growth of Ghana" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Tamale and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ghana, His Exc. Mgr. Philip Naameh, said that no ethnic group in Ghana should feel too small to contribute to the grow ...
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  22 March 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A pact for life and to eliminate violence and intolerance in political confrontation Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Fifth pre-electoral report on violence against political, social and municipal leaders - from March 13, 2021 to January 13, 2022 - produced by the Electoral Observation Mission (OEO), report ...
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  22 March 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Caritas and regional authorities of San Martín join forces for Covid vaccination in indigenous communities Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Communities Vaccination Promotion and Awareness Project of the Peruvian Amazon, to contain the deadly effects of the pandemic", is supported by Caritas Germany and implemented by Car ...
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  22 March 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "It was one of the best trips I've ever done": says a missionary from Monassao Monassao (Agenzia Fides) - "Singila mingi, Nzapa! (Many thanks to God). This is how my mission begins, remembering that it is never mine but God's, in this blessed land , but so wounded by poverty, war, instability. The ...
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  22 March 2022
  ASIA - The implications of the war in Central Asia: between ethnic-linguistic divisions and new arrivals from Russia Milan (Agenzia Fides) - The war in Ukraine and the consequent sanctions imposed by the West on Russia are leading to developments that also affect Central Asia. Fr. Edoardo Canetta, a missionary in Kazakhstan for twenty ...
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  22 March 2022
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Christian, Muslim and Jewish exponents of the Holy Land to Russian Patriarch Kirill: do everything possible to stop the war in Ukraine Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - A letter hanging on the walls of a Russian Orthodox church in Jerusalem, signed by 150 Christians, Jews and Muslims from all over the world, and addressed to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, with t ...
• 22 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Be careful not to preach the Christianity of prosperity", warns the Bishop of Ekwuluobia Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Be careful not to preach the Christianity of prosperity", warned His Excellency Msgr. Peter Ebere Okpaleke, Bishop of Ekwuluobia, in Anambra State, southern Nigeria, during the 51st Assembly of B ...
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  22 March 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Bringing God's love to the poor and the excluded: the mission of Sister Joseph, new Superior of the Missionaries of Charity New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - - "I thank God for the mercy granted to me through the gift of my vocation in the Congregation and now this new responsibility. With the guidance and blessing of God, I commit myself to adhere ...
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  22 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - Paulines in Lviv: "There is so much pain and so many tears" Lviv (Agenzia Fides) - "Our city, Lviv, has become a transit place for hundreds of thousands of people, all fleeing the bombings in central and eastern Ukraine. There is so much pain and so many tears. Mostly women and c ...
• 21 March 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 19, 2022, the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Francis Kalist, currently Bishop of Meerut, as Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore (India). (S ...