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• 18 March 2022
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The Pontiff will celebrate Mass near the site of the ambush on Ambassador Attanasio Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis will celebrate a Mass not far from the place where, on February 22, 2021, the Italian Ambassador in Kinshasa, Luca Attanasio, was killed. This was announced by sources from the gov ...
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  18 March 2022
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Latin Patriarchate schools in conference to address the educational emergency with new strategies Ramallah (Agenzia Fides) - The schools of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem operating in Palestine celebrate their first programmatic conference in the name of realism and the search for new strategies and new paths to ...
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  17 March 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - A Constitution with a norm on free abortion cannot be felt and accepted as its own by many Chileans Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "A political Constitution with a norm on free abortion cannot be felt and accepted as its own by many Chileans, including many people who profess a religious faith, since respect for human life ...
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  17 March 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The diocesan process for the beatification of the young Akash Bashir begins Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no greater love than giving one's life for one's friends. These are the words of Jesus, who was the first to give his life for his friends and we learn this from him. Akash Bashir, a yo ...
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  17 March 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Towards the National Missionary Congress 2024: the First Regional Congress is held in Pereira Pereira (Agenzia Fides) - With the slogan "With Missionary Mary, beyond the borders", the First Regional Missionary Congress will be held in the city of Pereira from March18 to 20, which seeks to keep alive the concern f ...
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  17 March 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - Redemptorist seminarians interrupt their studies to work with Caritas on the Ukrainian border Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Seminarians from the Redemptorist Major Seminary of Tuchow, in the district of Tarnów, Poland, have volunteered to work on the Polish-Ukrainian border, in Zosin for more than a week. They temporar ...
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  17 March 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Tigray still deprived of humanitarian aid: lack of food and health facilities Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Tigray is catastrophic, the region has been isolated from the rest of the world for 500 days now", accuses Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health ...
• 17 March 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - Concrete solidarity of Catholic women with the victims of the Apiatse explosion Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "It takes time to overcome the sorrowful repercussions of situations like the disaster you have suffered", said His Exc. Msgr. John Baptist Attakruh, Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi, addressing the vic ...
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  17 March 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Orthodox Church commemorates Patriarch Shenuda III on the 10th anniversary of his death Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "He taught us not to complain, seeing that he never complained, despite the many difficult circumstances he went through". With these words, the Egyptian priest Antonios Thabet, of the Coptic Orth ...
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  16 March 2022
  ASIA/HONG KONG - The laity, committed to being the engine of evangelization and participation in the synodal process Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - The Association of Catholic Laity of the Diocese of Hong Kong (Hong Kong Central Council of Catholic Laity HKCCCL) has renewed its commitment to being the engine of evangelization in the dioce ...
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  16 March 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The Salesians: "Listen to the voices of the children who die in the bombardments! The world must know these horrors" Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesians of the "Mary Help of Christians" Vice Province of Greek-Catholic Ukraine have raised their voices to defend the lives of the youngest in the face of the horrors of war. In an appeal p ...
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  16 March 2022
  AMERICA - The Church in Latin America and the Caribbean joins the Pope in the consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, March 25, during the Celebration of Penance, which he will preside at 5 pm in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The ...
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  16 March 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The ecumenical dimension of Pope Francis' visit to the Country Torit (Agenzia Fides) - "Upon hearing the news of the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to the country, we have appointed a committee of four persons from the Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference (SCBC) to begin the work of p ...
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  16 March 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Referendum on the revocation of the presidential mandate: for the Bishops "it is a decision of great responsibility" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 10, the National Electoral Institute (INE) called on Mexican citizens to express their opinion in a referendum, as established by the Constitution, on the revocation or confirmation ...
• 16 March 2022
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Casamance: Sant'Egidio calls for the end of military operations and a willingness to negotiate Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply concerned about the armed conflict that is currently taking place in northern Casamance", declares the Community of Sant'Egidio, which for years has acted as a mediator for peace be ...