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• 8 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - "We will stay as long as we have food" say villagers subjected to violence by jihadists Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We will stay as long as we have something to eat", with these words the Italian missionary Father Mauro Armanino of the Society for Africa Missions quotes farmers from the area of Bomoanga, on t ...
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  8 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Human rights and basic needs: it is an emergency for the most destitute populations hit by tropical storms Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply concerned about the people of the southern and central districts devastated by the recent tropical storm Ana", said the President of the Bishops' Conference of Malawi (ECM), Mgr. ...
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  8 February 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishop of Buenaventura receives death threats: “Today he is the victim” Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned for the life of Bishop Rubén Darío Jaramillo of Buenaventura, who, as a good pastor and with the pain of his people in his heart, denounced what was happening in th ...
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  8 February 2022
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako teaches Iraqi politicians a lesson, quoting Imam Ali Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law, is considered by the Shiites to be the first Imam. Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako quoted the Muslim scholar as saying at the beginning of his ...
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  7 February 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Drugs kill: we cannot afford to ignore this tragedy" exhort the Bishops of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Yes, drugs kill: we cannot afford to ignore this tragedy and so many others that happen every day. We are deeply moved by the deaths of young people and adults as a result of drug use, we ...
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  7 February 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Education is the key to the development of a society: the emerging role of Catholic schools Mombasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest gift we can give to any person is not a big house or a piece of land, but rather education" declared the Archbishop of Mombasa, Msgr. Martin Kivuva, addressing the Sisters of the C ...
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  7 February 2022
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A special place for ethnic minorities in the synodal journey Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - In the synodal journey that the Church has undertaken, the indigenous Friars, the Afros, the Palenqueros, the Raizales and the Roma, have a special place: this is highlighted by the section "Eth ...
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  7 February 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Demolition of Holy Cross Social Center in Karnataka Mangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A group of radical Hindu militants destroyed the St. Anthony's Holy Cross Center, a Catholic place of prayer and hospitality, built 40 years ago in Urandady Gudde-Panjimogaru, near the city fr ...
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  7 February 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros praises the directive of President al Sisi: to erect a church in every new urban settlement Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In the intense urban development program launched in Egypt, each new urban district built in compliance with the guidelines established by the civil authorities will also have its own church, in a ...
• 7 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped in Kaduna Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria: Fr. Joseph Shekari, parish priest in Ikulu Fari (Chawai, Kauru) in Kaduna State in northern Nigeria. According to initial reports, armed men ...
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  5 February 2022
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Star Singers are growing in French-speaking Switzerland Friborg (Agenzia Fides) - Nine new groups in 2021 alone and in total a number more than tripled in six years. These are the numbers of the Star Singers of French Switzerland who on February 2, the Feast of the Presentati ...
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  5 February 2022
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - The Salesian oratory, a place of proclamation of the Good News, in the midst of political and social tension Kiev (Agenzia Fides) - "Our oratory is proving to be a refuge for many: Catholics, Orthodox, but also many non-believers. Young people spread the word using social networks, sometimes even involving their families. And t ...
• 5 February 2022
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - A missionary: "There is no clarity on the failed coup: a destabilizing act" Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment the situation is calm, I would say that we are back to normal, if it were not only for the signs left around the place where the strange coup attempt took place. Yesterday, Februar ...
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  5 February 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Justice for the murder of Moïse Kabagambe: "barbarism becomes normal when it involves the poor" Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - Justice for the murder of Moïse Kabagambe, identifying the perpetrators of this "unacceptable and brutal act with which they cowardly took the life of this 24-year-old", is what the Nati ...
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  5 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Infants and children in dire need exacerbated by cyclones and tropical Chikwawa (Agenzia Fides) - Basic necessities, essential goods for people who have lost their homes, survival kits for babies and children, are some of the priorities urgently needed by the thousands of people affected by ...