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  28 February 2022
  ASIA/TURKEY - Ukrainian President Zelensky telephones Patriarch Bartholomew: "We feel the support of your prayers" Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank you for this warm conversation, Your Holiness Bartholomew. Your words are like hands that support us in this difficult moment". This is how the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky wa ...
• 28 February 2022
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Resignation of the Bishop of Byumba and appointment Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Byumba (Rwanda) presented by His Exc. Msgr. Servilien Nzakamwita. The Holy Father has appointed ...
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  26 February 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Letter to the authorities: the Archdiocese of Hanoi calls for respect for religious freedom Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Hanoi has sent a letter of urgent complaint to various leaders, civil servants and civil authorities, at provincial and national government level, asking the "People's Commi ...
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  26 February 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Pallottine missionaries committed to "making every child flourish" Vutukuru (Agenzia Fides) - "In India we are dedicated to accompanying boys and girls in the process of schooling and to the fight against poverty that affects many families. Our mission is that every child flourishes". T ...
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  26 February 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Being an ambassador is a bit like a mission" memory of Ambassador Attanasio killed in Congo Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - Together with some diocesan and voluntary organizations for Africa, the Society for African Missions (SMA) organized an event in memory of Ambassador Luca Attanasio, assassinated in Congo on Febru ...
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  26 February 2022
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - The Bishops on the occasion of Independence Day: "Let the truth come out for the good of the nation" Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - In the usual message published on the occasion of Independence Day, the Dominican Episcopal Conference (CED) addresses the main issues of national interest, presenting to all Dominicans th ...
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  26 February 2022
  AFRICA/BENIN - A "Pastoral of Memory", to celebrate the work of missionaries in Africa Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "Missionary work was the seed from which the African clergy and entire generations of convinced Christians germinated, whose vision and action have contributed to making our Church in Africa a C ...
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  26 February 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The role of the family, respect for society and generosity towards others at the center of Missionary Childhood week Agboville (Agenzia Fides) - "For this edition of the week of missionary childhood, we have put family, respect and generosity at the center. These are basic values for the development of a society", explained Father Mode ...
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  26 February 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The war in Ukraine and the pain of the Eastern Churches: "the only one who benefits from it is the devil" Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - "Wars are a defeat for all parties involved. The only one who enjoys them is the devil, who already dances on the heads of corpses, and plays with the pain of widows, orphans and grieving mothers". ...
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  25 February 2022
  ASIA/CHINA - Prayer, diligence, sacrifice and dedication: inauguration of the second semester of the National Seminary of Catholic Church in China Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – To pray with fervor, to study diligently, to sacrifice oneself with courage, to show passionate dedication: with reference to the motto of the Seminar and with the solemn prayer of "Our Father ...
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  25 February 2022
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Father Gabriel and the mission in Gaza Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - Life in Gaza is not easy for anyone. For 70 years, the consequences of the Arab-Israeli conflict have turned the Gaza Strip into the largest open-air prison in the world, cyclically disrupted by ou ...
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  25 February 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Two Catholic priests arrested for providing humanitarian aid to displaced people Pekhon (Agenzia Fides) - The Myanmar army has arrested two Catholic priests who were on their way to help internally displaced people in Shan State, in the eastern part of Myanmar. As Fides learned from the local Church, ...
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  25 February 2022
  AMERICA - "Peace for the world": Churches in America united on a day of prayer and fasting for peace Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "We make the appeal of the Holy Father our own and invite the 22 Episcopal Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the ecclesial institutions and organizations of our continent ...
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  25 February 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Our pride and our strength is faith. We must never stop being ambassadors of peace" Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not enough to call ourselves Christians or disciples of God or children of God. We must work within ourselves, within our hearts. Only if we continue to act as believers will we be ...
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  25 February 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - COVID-19: Campaign to disprove false myths and encourage vaccination initiated by Catholic nuns Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Our awareness campaign has helped to increase the number of people who have been vaccinated", says Sister Lucy Hometowu, superior general of the Sisters of Mary Mother of the Church, who is also ...