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26 March 2021
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - US Senators ask President Biden to recognize the Armenian Genocide
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led 37 of his Senate colleagues in requesting the Biden administration join the U.S. Congress in offici ...
26 March 2021
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Fr. Harrison Egwuenu released
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Harrison Egwuenu, dean of St. George's College in Obinomba, is free again.
According to Fr. Benedict Okutegbe, administrator of Sacred Heart Cathedral in the city of Warri, the priest was r ...
25 March 2021
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Christ at the center and the relaunch of Evangelization in the declarations of the new Bishop of Rumbek
Rumbek (Agenzia Fides) - "I was working as Vicar General in the diocese of Malakal and I was - and am - very satisfied with my vocation and with my life as a missionary. I believe that the Pope chose me because there was ...
25 March 2021
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Dedicated to St. Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Bishop and Martyr, the hospital chapel where he was killed
San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - "Dear Monsignor: It was Monday, March 24, 1980 and the clock indicated 6:20 p.m. You celebrated Holy Mass with your usual devotion and tenderness, saying these words: "May this immolated bo ...
25 March 2021
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Preach the Gospel of service, peace and development in the declarations of the new Apostolic Vicar of Quetta
Quetta (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace is the world's most urgent need. This is why I have chosen the episcopal motto 'Service, Peace, Development'. All human beings are a human family and God wants all human beings to live hap ...
25 March 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Bishops appeal in defense of great human values, against the imposition of the "culture of death"
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Permanent Commission of the Venezuelan Bishops has published a declaration on the right to life, entitled "Great Human Values", in which it states: "in the face of the real possibility of im ...
25 March 2021
VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle: "The pandemic has exacerbated the inequalities and wounds of the world"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The pandemic has highlighted other types of diseases that already existed before: the lack of brotherhood and the barriers that separate the rich and the poor. There are those who can acce ...
25 March 2021
EUROPE/ITALY - "Covid does not take away the guarantee that Christ has risen": the presence and testimony of the Camillians does not stop
Turin (Agenzia Fides) - "The world today has, more than ever, an extreme need for testimonies, for people capable of going against the tide, of opposing the prevailing evil which divides human beings, which rejects or do ...
25 March 2021
AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Testimonies from missionaries on the front line in caring for the population after the explosions in Bata
Bata (Agenzia Fides) - "On Sunday 7 March, around 1 pm, we heard a loud noise, as if the house was shaking. A few minutes later, another noise was heard which caused the destruction of the doors and windows of the hotel ...
25 March 2021
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Pizzaballa celebrates the solemnity of the Annunciation in Nazareth: virtual Masses do not save us, but the encounter with Christ
Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not through technology that we will meet the Lord, it is not the virtual masses that will save us, and not even social media, but the personal encounter with Him". This is how Archbishop ...
24 March 2021
EUROPE/ITALY - Saint Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, model for the whole Church in missionary outreach
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "As recognition of this important anniversary, the 150th of the proclamation of Saint Alphonsus as Doctor of the Church, Pope Francis has sent us a message in which he proposes Saint Alphonsus, as ...
24 March 2021
AFRICA/UGANDA - World Day against Tuberculosis: Covid-19 slows down the fight against the 'disease of poverty' but there are messages of hope
Moroto (Agenzia Fides) - In the year of Covid-19 in Uganda there are often problems related to the fight against viruses and infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, which is still one of the deadliest in the world toda ...
24 March 2021
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - April 23 the beatification of the martyrs of Quiché: 3 missionary priests and 7 lay people "faithful witnesses of God"
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 23, 2021 the celebrations for the beatification of ten martyrs of the Guatemalan diocese of Quiché will take place in Santa Cruz del Quiché. The bishops of Guatemala published ...
24 March 2021
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishop and priest ask for more security: many parishes affected by the increase in violence
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Eduardo Horacio García of San Justo (Gran Buenos Aires) and his priests wrote a letter to the Mayor of La Matanza, Fernando Espinoza, and to the Police Deputy of La Matanza, Chief I ...
24 March 2021
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Pilgrimage of Catholic journalists and communicators inspired by the Pope's message for the 55th World Day of Social Communications
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Come and see: Communicate by meeting people where and how they are" is the theme of Pope Francis' message for the 55th World Day of Social Communication, which was celebrated on Saturday, March ...
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