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  16 February 2022
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Lenten Campaign for a three-year period will be in support of vulnerable families affected by Covid-19 Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - This year the Fraternity Lenten Campaign will have the slogan "Chile reaches out to vulnerable families". After a process of national consultation with the dioceses, informs the note sent to Fi ...
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  16 February 2022
  VATICAN - Pope Francis remembers Father Richard, killed in Congo on February 2, during his general audience Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of today's general audience, greeting the religious of the Order of Clerics Regular Minor, the Holy Father Francis said: "I am thinking of your young confrere, Father Richard, fr ...
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  15 February 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. - "Where nobody wants to go": Doctors with Africa CUAMM reaches more than 200,000 people Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Finally the last mile! We left the capital of the Central African Republic four years ago, where the country's only pediatric hospital is located. Here we have been called to carry out hard and ...
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  15 February 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Churches and ethnic-territorial organizations request an urgent meeting with the government due to the dramatic situation in Chocó Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church, other Churches, ethnic-territorial organizations, and social organizations of Chocó and Western Antioquia, presented a letter to President Iván Duque in which they urgentl ...
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  15 February 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Citizens demand anti-conversion law to be stopped in Karnataka state New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Prominent citizens of all walks of life in India call for the anti-conversion law, approved in the Karnataka State Parliament on February 14, to be stopped, and for all anti-conversion laws in ...
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  15 February 2022
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - Early elections: foreseeable transfer of power from father to son Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - The announced resignation of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, with the consequent early presidential elections and the foreseeable rise to power of the son of the same leader, Serd ...
• 15 February 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A new rebellion is about to break out in South Kivu, according to local human rights activists Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A new rebellion is emerging in the plain of Ruzizi, in the province of South-Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This was reported in a note sent to Fides by the local NGO AC ...
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  15 February 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - "Honorary citizenship" to Pope John Paul II: encouragement and commitment for the entire country San José (Agenzia Fides) - On February 10, in an official act of the Legislative Assembly, the portrait of Saint John Paul II was unveiled to celebrate the Honorary Citizenship of Costa Rica that was granted to him. In ...
• 15 February 2022
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Appointment of the Bishop of Chiayi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Norbert Pu, of the clergy of Chiayi, until now parish priest of Christ the King in Putzu, as bishop of the diocese of Chiayi, Taiwan. Msgr. Norbe ...
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  15 February 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Farewell to Mar Addai II, Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Ancient Church of the East mourns the death of its Patriarch Mar Addai II, who died on February 11, at the age of 74. With the death of its Patriarch, a new season opens and not without unce ...
• 14 February 2022
  AFRICA/BENIN - Appointment of Bishop of Djougou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 12, 2022, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Fr. Bernard de Clairvaux Toha Wontacien, O.S.F.S., until now provincial superior of the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales in Be ...
• 14 February 2022
  AMERICA/CASTRIES - Resignation of the Archbishop of Castries (Santa Lucia) and appointment Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 11, 2022 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Castries (Santa Lucia) presented by His Exc. Msgr. Robert Rivas, O.P. ...
• 14 February 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Resignation of Bishop of Yei and appointment Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 11, 2022 Tthe Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Yei (South Sudan), presented by His Exc. Msgr. Erkolano Lodu Tombe. The Holy Father ...
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  14 February 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Unity and love: the message of the Bishop ordained on Valentine's Day, inspired by the martyrs Hung Hoa (Agenzia Fides) - "The motto of the newly elected Bishop is 'Unity and Love': unity in Christianity is being one with Christ through the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Love is the essence of our God, God is love. U ...
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  14 February 2022
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Covid-19 has not stopped the celebrations of the Camillian Missionaries in Flores for the sick on the island Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - In recent years, on the occasion of World Day of the Sick, the Camillian missionaries, present in Maumere, Island of Flores, have always organized a special Eucharistic celebration for sick peop ...