News

• 9 October 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of Metropolitan Archbishop of Imphal Vatican City ( Fides News Agency) - On Oct. 7, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Imphal (India) presented by Archbishop Dominic Lumon. The Holy Father appo ...
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  9 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We have no information about our kidnapped sisters" Abuja ( Fides News Agency) - Three nuns and a seminarian were kidnapped along with their driver in Imo State, southern Nigeria. According to a memo from their congregation, the nuns belong to the Missionary Daughters of ...
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  8 October 2023
  ASIA/ HOLY LAND - Gaza parish priest: no one knows what lies ahead Gaza (Fides News Agency) - "No one knows what lies ahead, and unfortunately there are no signs that what started yesterday may end soon." Father Gabriel Romanelli, pastor of Gaza's Catholic parish dedicated to the Holy F ...
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  7 October 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - What name for Jesus in the Indonesian language? Jakarta (Fides News Agency) - The Indonesian government will no longer use, in Bahasa, Indonesia's national language, the term "Isa Al-Masih," a word of Arabic origin, to refer to Jesus Christ and Christian holidays. An ...
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  7 October 2023
  AFRICA/CHAD -Archbishop Djitangar: Impatience growing against foreign military presence in our country N'Djamena (Fides News Agency) - We are the youngest Church in Africa, so much so that we will be the last African Church in 2029 to celebrate 100 years since the first evangelization" says Archbishop of N'Djamena, Goetb ...
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  6 October 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - Laurea Honoris Causa to author Maria Eugénia Neto, widow of one of the African revolutionary leaders received by Paul VI Rome (Fides News Agency) - "There is a long history of friendship between our two countries, similar to the time when a Pope received, for the first time, representatives of nationalist movements at war with colonizing P ...
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  6 October 2023
  AFRICA/TOGO- Caritas and "Justice and Peace" project to prevent conflict on the Togo-Benin border Lomé (Fides News agency) - The cross-border project "Nuwaki Togo-Benin", implemented by the Episcopal Council for Justice and Peace of the Togolese Diocese of Dapaong in collaboration with Caritas Natitingou (Benin), h ...
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  6 October 2023
  ASIA/THAILAND - Immersed in nature, young people discover the deep meaning of "Laudate Deum" Chiang Mai (Fides News Agency) - "Immersing ourselves in nature allows us to discover and learn many new things. We lived the 'Time of Creation,' inspired by Laudato si'. Now, with young university students in Northern T ...
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  6 October 2023
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Pre-Election Clashes in Foya Foya (Fides News Agency) - Twenty years ago with the peace agreements signed in Accra, Ghana, one of the bloodiest pages of African history came to an end: the dual Liberian civil war. "The memory of the conflict, of the ...
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  5 October 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenyan delegation presents expectations and hopes of Kenyan Catholics at synod Nairobi ( Fides News Agency) - The expectations and hopes of Kenyan Catholics are being brought to the Assembly of the Synod of Bishops by the Kenyan delegation, represented by the President of the Kenya Conference of Ca ...
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  5 October 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Annalena Tonelli: Somali Church remembers the martyr on the 20th anniversary of her murder Djibouti ( Fides News Agency) - "I chose to be for others: the poor, the suffering, the abandoned, the unloved, which I was as a child and so I have been and I trust to continue until the end of my life. I wanted to foll ...
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  5 October 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Five months after the start of violence in Manipur, a way forward is sought to start peace talks Imphal ( Fides News Agency) - "The path to seek peace is a steep, difficult, impassable one," says Thomas Menamparampil, Archbishop Emeritus of Guwahati who, at the head of the "Manipur Interfaith Forum for Peace and Har ...
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  4 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 5 female students kidnapped from a university hostel in the north of the country Abuja (Fides News Agency ) - At least five female students were abducted by an armed group that attacked a hostel at the Federal University of Dutsin-Ma, in Katsina State, northern Nigeria. Reports indicate that the ass ...
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  4 October 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Severe humanitarian crisis on Sudan-South Sudan border; war in Khartoum continues unabated Khartoum (Fides News Agency) - The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is worsening with strong repercussions in neighboring countries especially South Sudan. The World Food Program (WFP) has sounded the alarm over the looming ...
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  4 October 2023
  VATICAN - The Christian realism of "Laudate Deum" by Gianni Valente Rome (Fides News Agency) - " Praise God” is the title of this letter. For when human beings claim to take God’s place, they become their own worst enemies." These words conclude the new Apostolic ...