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• 6 March 2020
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Resignation of the Bishop of Kinkala and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 5, 2020 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kinkala, Republic of the Congo, presented by Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu. At the same tim ...
• 6 March 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Erection of the Diocese of Ekwulobia and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 5, 2020, the Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Ekwulobia, in Nigeria, with territory taken from the diocese of Awka, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan see of Onits ...
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  6 March 2020
  AFRICA/GHANA - COVID-19: The Church in Ghana takes preventive measures Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Ghana, like those of other countries, have also invited the faithful to take preventive measures to avoid contracting COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In a spe ...
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  6 March 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - "With Mary, beyond borders": the preparation of the National Missionary Congress proceeds Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Marian dimension of the Mission, expressed by the motto "With Mary, beyond the borders", is the main theme of the XIII National Missionary Congress which will be celebrated from 25 to 28 June ...
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  6 March 2020
  ASIA/NEPAL - The Catholic community has preserved faith and needs development and education Kathmandu (Agenzia fides) - "There was a time when you could not freely practice and profess your faith. Until the arrival of the Jesuits, in the late 1990s, there were no priests for the Eucharist and other sacraments. ...
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  6 March 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Three Bishops to lead the peace process with the communist rebels Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Three Catholic Bishops from the Philippines have made themselves available and accepted the challenge of contributing to peace talks with the armed communist rebel movement, New People's Army. As ...
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  5 March 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped on Sunday 1 March released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We have been reliably informed that Fr. David Echioda has been released by his abductors. Thank you for your prayers and support during this trying time", says the message from the Nigerian dioce ...
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  5 March 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Caritas meeting of the Bolivarian area Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The identity of Caritas is seen in our service, it is within us", said Ricardo Calle, Pastoral Councilor of Caritas Peru, on the occasion of the meeting of the Bolivarian area held from 2 to 4 Mar ...
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  5 March 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal of religious leaders to the State and the international community: to guarantee justice for the murder of Saleem Masih Lahore (Agenia Fides) - Outrage and condemnation for "a barbaric, inhuman and atrocious crime"; request to provincial and federal governments to "punish the killers firmly"; appeal to international organizations to promo ...
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  4 March 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Yes to women, Yes to life": a great prayer for life on 8 March announced by the Bishops Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the celebration of International Women's Day, March 8, and on the occasion of the legislative discussion of the project to legalize abortion, the Executive Commission of the Arge ...
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  4 March 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops lead a peaceful protest march in Abuja: "No more massacres of innocent civilians" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are protesting against the brutal killings of innocent Nigerians by Boko Haram and terrorist herdsmen who are invading peoples farm lands forcefully. We have embarked on a peaceful protest on ...
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  4 March 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Formation course on the social doctrine of the Church for 50 pastoral operators Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of the Ivory Coast through its national subcommittee Justice and Peace organized from 3 to 6 March a training formation on the social doctrine of the Church, destin ...
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  4 March 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrinians: one out of three migrants is a child, a sign that the international crisis is becoming stronger and stronger Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A third of migrants stranded in Greece are children. "It is the sign of how the international crisis is becoming stronger, and how often families allow their most precious things to leave, their ch ...
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  4 March 2020
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Christians pray for peace and healing in the country Kuching (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Malaysia "offer fasts, penances and invoke intercessions for the country, for the government, for the common good": this is what is said by Catholic Archbishop Simon Poh, at the he ...
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  4 March 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians: justice for Saleem Masih Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The barbaric murder of Saleem Masih, a young Christian from the Kasur district, who was beaten, kicked, chained and tortured with electric cables and a red-hot iron bar and died due to his injur ...