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  30 April 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops call for urgent change of course: "The situation is very serious" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The serious health crisis caused by the Covid 19 pandemic "has also plunged our country into a complex and systemic ethical, economic, social and political crisis, which had already challenged ...
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  30 April 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Civil society to the government: do more to protect religious freedom Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The condition of religious freedom in Pakistan raises concern: we are witnessing dozens of episodes of mob violence, the improper use of blasphemy laws, forced conversions and desecration of pla ...
• 30 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Ethnic-religious violence: "Who are we as Nigerians?" Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria is witnessing a worrying increase in ethnic-religious violence. Nigeria, the "African giant", Africa's most populous country, home of Afrobeat and Nollywood - one of the most thriving film ...
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  30 April 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Grand Mufti Shawki Allam: no Islamic prohibition on sharing "fast-breaking" dinners with Christians during Ramadan Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - There are no provisions in the Koran and in the Sunnah that prohibit Muslims from sharing the evening meal of "breaking the fast" (Al-Fitr) with Christian friends, relatives or acquaintances durin ...
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  30 April 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - Hopes and concerns of the Chilean Church, while the constituent process is in a crucial phase Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The 125th Plenary Assembly of Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Chile ended on Friday, April 29 in the city of Santiago, during which the Bishops reflected on various issues of the country ...
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  29 April 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - More than 13,000 vaccines against Covid carried out in parishes last weekend San José (Agenzia Fides) - Last weekend April 23/24, 170 parishes in Costa Rica joined the "Complete your scheme" ("Completá tu esquema") campaign so that children and adults can complete their vaccination program agai ...
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  29 April 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - The Comboni Missionaries: "Doors open in our homes to welcome and care for the Ukrainian population fleeing the war" Krakow (Agenzia Fides) - "Our Comboni communities in Poland have been committed from the very beginning to welcoming refugees from Ukraine. To date, about three million refugees have crossed the border into our country. ...
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  29 April 2022
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Catholic community prays the Rosary in view of the elections Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic faithful in the Philippines entrust the nation to Mary and join together spiritually to pray the Rosary on the occasion of the national and local elections on May 9. In a pastoral st ...
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  29 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Population on the brink: the humanitarian action of the Church, which asks for peace Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "At the end of 2021, when we understood that the conflict would continue, we agreed that more attention would be needed and to start an aid program. At that point, the Church, the Bishops, t ...
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  29 April 2022
  AFRICA - Appeals continue to support the populations of the Horn of Africa who risk dying of hunger and thirst Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Millions of people across East Africa are facing extreme levels of hunger and malnutrition. The region's food insecurity continues to be exacerbated by ongoing conflicts, severe drought, loc ...
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  29 April 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - The "Day of the Catechist": disciple-missionary called to live synodality Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Since 2013, the Bishops of Peru have decided to celebrate, on the third Sunday of Easter, the "Day of the Catechist", whose patron is St. Francis Solano. For this reason, the Episcopal Commission ...
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  29 April 2022
  ASIA - Bishop Mumbiela Sierra elected President of the newly created Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Central Asia Nursultan (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. José Luis Mumbiela Sierra, Bishop of the Diocese of the Holy Trinity in Almaty, will preside over the Catholic Bishops Conference of Central Asia for the next four years. This is what wa ...
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  28 April 2022
  AMERICA - Saint Toribio de Mogrovejom, the great evangelizer who anticipated the journey of the "Church which goes forth" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Saint Toribio anticipated the journey of the 'Church which goes forth' on our continent. He spent a total of 17 of his 25 years as Archbishop of Lima traveling some 40,000 kilometers making pas ...
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  28 April 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Sentences, violence and murders for blasphemy Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A so-called Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Lahore has ruled in the murder of Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara, who was killed by a mob in Sialkot in December 2021 on charges of blasphemy (see F ...
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  28 April 2022
  ASIA - Asia, the continent of natural disasters and poverty Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - By 2030 the world will face around 560 natural disasters a year and most of these events will affect Asia. This emerges from the Global Assessment Report 2022 published by the UN Office for Disa ...