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27 April 2024
ASIA/CHINA - Marian Month at the Shrine of Sheshan: online bookings for pilgrimages
Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the beginning of the Marian Month of May, online bookings are now available for the organization of pilgrimages to the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Sheshan in the Diocese of Shanghai ...
27 April 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The "patriots" of the Wazalendo militias become a danger to the population
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Among the more than 100 different armed groups active in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (including mercenaries from Eastern Europe), the "Wazalendo" have acquired a special import ...
26 April 2024
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Lara and all the others: The young lives sacrificed in the massacre in Gaza
by Father Ibrahim Faltas ofm*
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - It is a duty to remember with sadness and respect every human life lost due to the violence of war. These are losses that could have been avoided. But humanit ...
26 April 2024
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Catechist murdered in the east of the Country
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The catechist Edouard Zoetyenga Yougbare was kidnapped and killed near Saatenga, in the diocese of Fada N'Gourma, in eastern Burkina Faso. According to a diocesan priest quoted by the Aci Af ...
26 April 2024
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Beatification process for the Filipino girl Niña Ruiz Abad begins: "God first of all"
Laoag (Agenzia Fides) - This is a figure that the Philippine Church presents to the world and that will be particularly highlighted on the occasion of World Children's Day, proclaimed by the Pope for 25 and 26 May: the d ...
25 April 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The M23 rebel movement takes up arms again: Congolese fear “balkanization”
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Balkanization". The Congolese use this term to describe the attempt by neighboring countries to divide the Democratic Republic of Congo by dividing it into numerous territories controlled by d ...
25 April 2024
ASIA/CHINA - World Day of Prayer for Priestly Vocations in Catholic Communities: Between hope and crisis
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The care and support of priestly and religious vocations are signs that shape the daily horizon of every baptized person. In this spirit, Catholic communities in China celebrated the 61st World ...
24 April 2024
ASIA/JAPAN - Catholics in Nagasaki witness the Resurrection
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The faithful of Nagasaki have had the strength to overcome many difficult difficulties throughout their history. They persevered first in the period of persecution and then, in the 20th ce ...
24 April 2024
ASIA/KOREA - Appointment of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 18, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Rev. Father Joseph Cheong Yong-jin of the clergy of Cheonju, as National Direct ...
24 April 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Land rights conflicts: An often overlooked factor in the wars in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The war in North Kivu, in which the M23 is involved, is perceived by the Congolese as a war of aggression carried out by neighboring Rwanda with the help of this armed group. The M23 is known t ...
22 April 2024
EUROPE/ROMANIA - Blessing of the chapel of the the Pontifical Mission Societies in Romania, dedicated to Blessed Pauline Jaricot
by Cristina Grigore
Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - Father Tadeusz Nowak, Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith (POPF), describes as a "historic moment" the inauguration of the chapel ...
22 April 2024
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Commemoration of the victims of the Easter attacks: Catholic Church wants to initiate the beatification process of their martyrdom
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, April 21, in the Archdiocese of Colombo - but also in the other dioceses of Sri Lanka - with Eucharistic celebrations, ringing of bells and two minutes of silence, the country's Catho ...
22 April 2024
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of the new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Gebremariam
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 19, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Rev. Father Abraham Gebremariama as National Director of the Pontifical Miss ...
22 April 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Update after the reactions sparked by a publication by Fides Agency on Cardinal Ambongo
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The latest publication of our Agency on Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu (see Fides, 18/4/2024) has sparked strong and partly negative reactions. In certain cases, the Cardinal has been attributed ...
20 April 2024
ASIA/HOLY LAND - A theatre, a swimming pool, a football field to educate about peace
by Father Ibrahim Faltas ofm *
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Franciscans opened their first school in the Middle East in 1598, in Bethlehem, in the Holy Land.
Since then, many more schools have opened, providing ed ...
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