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7 February 2024
EUROPE/HUNGARY - European Meeting of National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies: “The proclamation of the Gospel constitutes the Church”
Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - Mission and concrete synodality for a new proclamation of the Gospel on the European continent, said the President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Archbishop Emilio Nappa, on Tuesday Febru ...
7 February 2024
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Appointment of the new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 27, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed the Rev. Fr. Juvenal Nzohabonayo of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Gitega ...
7 February 2024
AFRICA/BENIN - Seminar on violent extremism and the proliferation of weapons in West Africa
Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "Prevention of violent extremism, radicalization and the proliferation of small arms in the Sahel and coastal countries of West Africa". These are the objectives of the training course launched ...
7 February 2024
ASIA/CHINA - A Christian look at the "Chinese New Year". The Lenten message of Bishop Joseph Gan
Guangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - This year again, as happens from time to time, the beginning of Lent coincides with the festive days of the Chinese New Year. A coincidence linked to the fact that the two events are fixed in ...
6 February 2024
AMERICA/CHILE - Archbishop of Santiago on forest fires: “It is a disaster”
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The number of people who died in the devastating fire in the coastal area of Valparaíso last Friday, February 2, continues to rise: "The situation is really tragic, it is a catastrophe", said ...
6 February 2024
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Parliamentary elections marked by economic crisis and political tensions
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Next February 8, the federal parliament, the so-called National Assembly, and the legislative assemblies of four provinces will be elected in Pakistan. The voters include 128 million eligible ...
6 February 2024
VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle at the Conference for the ongoing formation of priests: "In order not to become ‘wolves’ "
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In order not to become ‘wolves’, pastors "must keep watch over themselves or must take care of themselves and their faith. This is ongoing formation". With these words, echoing the Apos ...
6 February 2024
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Cardinal Czerny: "We are close to the people of South Sudan"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Free and credible elections were promised by South Sudanese President Salva Kiir to Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development, on the occasion ...
6 February 2024
EUROPE/GERMANY - Archbishop Nappa during the visit to Missio Aachen: "It feels good to do good"
Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Germany and Europe should see international church solidarity even more strongly as a personal, meaningful mission. Archbishop Emilio Nappa, President of the Pontifical Mission Soci ...
5 February 2024
VATICAN - Appointment of under-secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for Fundamental Questions regarding Evangelization in the World
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Msgr. Graziano Borgonovo, until now official of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, as under-secretary for the Dicastery for Evangelizati ...
5 February 2024
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Archbishop of Dakar: “Like many of our fellow citizens, I am disturbed by what is happening”
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Like many of our fellow citizens I am disturbed by what is happening", Archbishop Benjamin Ndiaye, Archbishop of Dakar, the capital of Senegal, told the press after President Macky Sall announced ...
5 February 2024
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Signature campaign to change the constitution: Bishops call for comprehensive public debate
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A confrontation, a reflection, a deeper and broader discernment on the proposals for revising the Constitutional Charter, in order to prevent the country from embarking on a dangerous slope towar ...
5 February 2024
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Two religious kidnapped in Plateau State: in Nigeria questions are being asked about the complicity in the banking sector for the payment of ransoms
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two Claretian missionaries (Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) were kidnapped by armed men on the night of February 1 in Plateau state, central Nigeria: Father Ken Kanwa C.M.F., parish ...
4 February 2024
The Abu Dhabi prophecy, 5 years later
by Gianni Valente
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On February 4, 2019, when the Bishop of Rome and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar signed the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together in Abu Dhabi, their une ...
4 February 2024
ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - Five years of Abu Dhabi Document: Bishop Martinelli underlines the prophetic significance
Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - In this "dramatic moment in the history of humanity, marked by so many conflicts", the Document on Human Fraternity signed in Abu Dhabi by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar Ahmed al ...
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