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  3 May 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Building peace in the Amhara region of the country: the commitment of Catholics Debre Berhan (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation led by the Secretary General of the Bishops' Conference of Ethiopia (CBCE), Abba Teshome Fikre, was recently visited the North Shoa conflict area, one of the administrative ar ...
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  3 May 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Religious and faithful in the world united in Marian prayer for peace and justice in Myanmar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It is a month of May characterized, in Myanmar and abroad, by the ardent Marian prayer for peace and justice in Myanmar. The international campaign promoted by Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Ar ...
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  3 May 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï thanks Saudi Arabia and again calls for an "international solution" to the Lebanese crisis Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A "thank you" to Saudi Arabia for allowing at least the Lebanese trucks blocked at the border to enter its territory and unload their goods, before triggering the embargo imposed by Riyadh on imp ...
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  1 May 2021
  VATICAN - Fr. Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen, Vietnamese Franciscan Friar, new Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionary Union Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen, OFMConv, is the new Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), as well as Director of the International Center for Missionary Animation (CIAM) a ...
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  30 April 2021
  VATICAN - Jeanne Bigard, the mother of a multitude of priests Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Looking closely at the influence of the Pontifical Society of St. Peter from its origins to today, some are surprised and wonder what were the most important character traits that allowed ...
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  30 April 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Consolata missionaries: "Support the efforts of indigenous communities to react to the condition of abandonment and degradation" Cartago (Agenzia Fides) - "For some time the entire territory of the diocese of Cartago has been experiencing a very problematic social situation characterized by degradation and insecurity. Its causes are to be found, o ...
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  30 April 2021
  EUROPE/POLAND - "Tailor-made" vocations: a project to support seminarians in mission countries Krakow (Agenzia Fides) - The Pious Disciples of the Divine Master of Poland are committed to helping seminarians in mission countries. On Good Shepherd Sunday, World Day of Prayer for Vocations, the project "Tailor-made ...
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  30 April 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Border mission and the Pope's blessing Gode (Agenzia Fides) - "In the tribulations of this very strange time, the Lord has reserved for us one of those consolations that rarely happen in life. In March, here in Gode, we unexpectedly received a visit from the ...
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  30 April 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Burmese communities abroad demonstrate in favor of the new government of national unity Milan (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese communities abroad will be linked together on Sunday May 2nd in a kind of global human chain that will stretch across the world through 16 countries in Asia, America and Europe, where ...
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  30 April 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The youngest diocese in Vietnam welcomes the new Bishop Ha Tinh (Agenzia Fides) - "We are here to say thanks to Mgr. Paul Thai Hop for his immense contribution as Bishop in the dioceses. Above all we remember his work as president of the Episcopal Commission for "Justice and ...
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  29 April 2021
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Caritas promotes inclusion and trains “accompanying teachers” Almaty (Agenzia Fides) – To promote a culture of inclusion, the Church in Kazakhstan has launched a number of initiatives that benefit children with physical or mental disabilities or people with Down syndrome. The coo ...
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  29 April 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church is close to the population of the city besieged by criminal violence Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Mexico will make all its resources and structures available for aid programs to promote human life. This was emphasized by the Apostolic Nuncio in Mexico, Archbishop F ...
• 29 April 2021
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Bishop Bertin: "Hidden life of the faithful and humanitarian work of Caritas" Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - For thirty years Somalia has been a divided country, without stable institutions, crossed by fundamentalist turmoil. In this complex context, a very small Christian community continues to live ...
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  29 April 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appeal by an Asian interfaith network: stop the massacre of civilians Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Let's stop the killing of innocent civilians in Myanmar": is the title of the global action campaign promoted in the Asian continent by an interreligious network of which they are part: the Franc ...
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  29 April 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Forgiveness, unity, and reconciliation: the message of the wounded Bishop Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Prayer, unity, forgiveness and reconciliation: this is the message sent, from a hospital bed, by the Comboni Msgr. Christian Carlassare, bishop-elect of Rumbek, in South Sudan, victim of an atta ...