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  1 February 2022
  ASIA/JORDAN - Religious leaders praise King Abdallah II's "message to the nation" on his 60th birthday Amman (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders and representatives of the Churches and Ecclesial Communities of Jordan unanimously expressed their thanks and their full and unconditional consent to the "Message to the Nation" that ...
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  1 February 2022
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Archbishop Centellas: "We must stop being adversaries and work together for the progress of our country, for the progress of each family" Sucre (Agenzia Fides) – To live the love that comes from God, which helps us to always seek forgiveness and reconciliation among all, to do good above all to those who are furthest away and to love our enemies: this wa ...
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  1 February 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Food, not weapons. Humiliation and trauma: the greatest tragedy of the witnesses of massacres in Tigray Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of the conflict in the Ethiopian region of Tigray, nothing is known about some parishes of the Eparchy of Adigrat. We know that foreign soldiers attacked several of them. Pe ...
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  31 January 2022
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack in Peshawar: a Protestant pastor killed, another seriously injured Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - Lethal attack on two Protestant pastors in Peshawar, in the north of Pakistan. Yesterday afternoon, January 30, two men on a motorbike opened fire on the car with two Protestant pastors on the ...
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  31 January 2022
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "united in the efforts of all peacemakers, let us walk with them" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - A message of consolation, closeness and accompaniment to people who suffer from violence and encouragement to all people of good will not to renounce the commitment to build peace, was sent ...
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  31 January 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A Dominican priest killed in the confessional Kon Tum (Agenzia Fides) - A Vietnamese Dominican priest, Father Joseph Tran Ngoc Thanh, was killed while listening to confessions and celebrating the Sacrament of Reconciliation in the diocese of Kon Tum. He was 41 years ...
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  31 January 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - The hopes and energy of the little 'kings of darkness', the blind children of Gaya Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - King of darkness, blind, danawo, koubey koy, in the Djerma language of the peoples who live in the westernmost part of Niger, are some of the insults that young blind students in the inclusive Cat ...
• 31 January 2022
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Sr. Marina Aguilar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 6, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Sister Marina Aguilar, of the Santa Mariana de Jesus Institute ( ...
• 31 January 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation of the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 30, 2022, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by His Exc. ...
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  31 January 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Qualified presence of Christian publishers at the 53rd International Book Fair in Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Also this year the International Book Fair hosted in Cairo, now in its 53rd edition in 2022, has registered a substantial number of publishing houses linked to Churches and ecclesial institutions ...
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  31 January 2022
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Pain for the sacred images desecrated in a parish in Pehuajó Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "It is an objective desecration of images which are loved and venerated. A wound to the believing sensibility of the parishioners, as well as a serious damage to the community's artistic a ...
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  29 January 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Schools have been reopened, a missionary: "Eradicating poverty among children through education" Moroto (Agenzia Fides) - "In the last two years, in addition to government measures, which have not reached everyone, especially in rural schools, there have been some support projects for education financed from abroad. ...
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  29 January 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters on Instagram: “Communicating the positive aspects of migration” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters (Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo) are on Instagram. On the "missionariescalabriniane" account it is possible to get information about the missionary ...
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  29 January 2022
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Sisters of the Immaculate Conception: "Under the protection of Mary, a life of prayer and mission in Tasmania" Franklin (Agenzia Fides) - "We are grateful to Archbishop Julian Porteous for encouraging and supporting us in the beginning of this adventure. We are also grateful for the time we can carry out our service in the Archdi ...
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  29 January 2022
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Over 200 catechists renew their pastoral commitment Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - In the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur lay catechists and volunteers are a precious presence to serve the local Church. More than 200 catechists from the Sacred Heart Cathedral and the Church o ...