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20 April 2024
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The journey towards World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul: Opportunity for fruitful cooperation under the sign of synodality
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The preparation for World Youth Day 2027 is an opportunity for fruitful collaboration between bishops, priests, religious and laity on a path of communion and synodality. The Organizing Committee ...
19 April 2024
EUROPE/LUXEMBOURG - Appointment of the new director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Claude Bache
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 19, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, , appointed the Rev. Father Claude Bache as National Director of the Pontifical Missio ...
19 April 2024
ASIA/CHINA - World Day of Prayer for Spiritual Vocations: “Mission means following Christ”
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - A cloth bag with the "Our Father" printed on it and an invitation to everyone to always carry the Word of God with them "to be nourished by it every day". This is the unique gift distributed at ...
19 April 2024
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - After the release of the main suspect, Bishops call for a “thorough investigation” into the attack on Bishop Carlassare
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask the authorities to ensure a thorough investigation into this incident and to bring those responsible to justice", say the Catholic Bishops of Sudan and South Sudan, who have jointly called ...
19 April 2024
VATICAN - The Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization to the diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies: “'The mission is mine, not yours,' said the Lord to Saint Francis”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "If we do not have a deep awareness of the meaning and importance of mission in the Church, we would reduce the Pontifical Mission Societies to an organization for collecting and distributi ...
19 April 2024
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Stop the spread of gambling in Negros Oriental: civil society protects the lives of young people
Dumaguete City (Agenzia Fides) - Gambling is a scourge in the Philippines. Present in society and culture for centuries, it has also taken on illegal forms and is widespread throughout the archipelago. The Philippine gov ...
18 April 2024
ASIA/KUWAIT - Mission in the Confessional: The Story of Father Dominic Santamaria
by Antonella Prenna
Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - More than eighteen thousand masses, eight thousand one hundred and forty baptisms and seven hundred and forty-eight marriages. The number of liturgies and sacraments ce ...
18 April 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Ambongo: “The situation in Goma is serious. We fear widespread insecurity in the east of the DRC”
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in and around Goma is worsening day by day," says Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Metropolitan Archbishop of Kinshasa, to Fides. He refers to the capital of North Kivu in the ...
18 April 2024
AFRICA/GHANA - Catholic women from the diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga bring gifts to the refugees of Tarikom on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The National Council of Catholic Women, in collaboration with the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women of Navrongo-Bolgatanga, has collected food and other donations for the asylum seekers at the re ...
17 April 2024
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Punjab Province: Catholic lawyer is human rights minister
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic lawyer Khalil Tahir Sindhu is Minister of Human Rights in the government of Pakistan's Punjab province, an area that is the economic, social and cultural heart of the nation and where th ...
17 April 2024
ASIA/CHINA - 100th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic parish in Lanniquing: Yi ethnic group pays tribute to the French missionary Paul Vial
Kunming (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 Catholics, most of whom belong to ethnic minorities in Yunnan province (southwest China), celebrated the 100th anniversary of the parish of Our Lady of Lourdes in Lanniqing, whose ...
17 April 2024
EUROPE/ROMANIA - Participants in the Conference of Childhood Missionaries in Europe meet and thank Roma ethnic missionary children
Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - From 25 European countries, forty-three delegates participated in the Conference of Missionary Childhood of Europe (CEME), which began on 7 April in Bucharest and ended on April 13th, with a f ...
17 April 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops of Bukavu Ecclesiastical Province: “Insecurity is endemic and the state is absent”
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Insecurity has become endemic" say the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bukavu (comprising the dioceses of Bukavu, Butembo-Beni, Goma, Kasongo, Kindu and Uvira) at the end of their me ...
16 April 2024
ASIA/LEBANON - Is there an attempt to destabilize a country shaken by the economic crisis and the conflict in the Middle East?
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Is there an attempt to destabilize Lebanon by reactivating sectarian conflicts? This is the question that is being asked in the Land of the Cedars following a series of events that have heightene ...
16 April 2024
ASIA/INDIA - "No" to religious polarization on the eve of the elections: Catholic religious and lay people reject the film on "love jihad"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India, where an electoral marathon begins on April 19th - a long process in seven stages for the election of the Indian Parliament that will end on June 1st - there is no need for cultural, ...
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