News

• 15 July 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Appointment of Bishop of Shanghai Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Bishop Joseph Shen Bin as bishop of Shanghai, in continental China, transferring him from the diocese of Haimen, province of Jiangsu. Bishop Joseph ...
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  15 July 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Missionary Bishop Wenceslao Padilla, a "good and faithful servant" who gave his life for the rebirth of the Church by Paolo Affatato "The God of our fathers was truly abounding in grace and love, and he protected and guided us at every step of our journey of faith in our small community of believers in Mongolia". With these words, i ...
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  15 July 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Mission in the Pygmy village Monasao (Agenzia Fides) - "They know all the seasons well, and at every time of the year they know what the forest can give". "They" are the Bayaka Pygmies who live in the Monasao mission, in the Catholic diocese of Berb ...
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  14 July 2023
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Health and education to fight poverty: missionaries in a small village on the outskirts Daloa (Agenzia Fides) - "Improving people's health is a way of fighting poverty". Starting from this principle, Father Ysmael Herbin Gbagoué, a missionary in Daloa, spoke of the need to restructure a dispensary that th ...
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  14 July 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "The Lord gives us priests from persecuted communities" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Father Laurent has only been a priest for a week. He is originally from Kankani, a village on the border with Burkina Faso where people are threatened by armed groups, who had to flee to Makalond ...
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  14 July 2023
  ASIA/THAILAND - The dramatic "limbo" of Burmese refugees Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – More than 90,000 Burmese refugees are living in nine refugee camps organised by the Thai government along the Thai-Myanmar border and, according to data from the United Nations High Commission ...
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  14 July 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Sister Elena and the boat on the Nile that rescues refugees fleeing the war in Sudan Malakal (Agenzia Fides) - Sudan is on the brink of the collapse. From a low-intensity conflict, hostilities are transitioning into open war three months after the outbreak. After the umpteenth ceasefire agreed and not re ...
• 14 July 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Asif John Khokhar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 24, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed the position of Father Asif John Khokhar (for biographical notes see Fides 26/7/2018) a ...
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  13 July 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Human rights activists receive death threats from Burundian rebels Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Three human rights activists have received death threats in South Kivu, eastern DRC, by a Burundian rebel group active in that part of the country. According to a communiqué from the "Lutte Po ...
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  13 July 2023
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - President Bio confirmed in office: Second term marked by numerous challenges and protests from the opposition Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Among the 13 candidates, 12 men and 1 woman, who presented themselves for the presidential elections held on June 24, Julius Maada Bio was re-elected and confirmed in office by the People's Par ...
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  13 July 2023
  ASIA/HONG KONG - 300 young people from Hong Kong leave for WYD in Lisbon. Bishop Chow: participate in the meeting with an open and grateful heart Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300 boys and girls from the diocese of Hong Kong will participate in the next World Youth Day in Lisbon. The Hong Kong youth preparing to leave are organized into 14 groups from pari ...
• 13 July 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saint Augustine" Interdiocesan Philosophical Major Seminary in Matola Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 24, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Father Nito Chatulica, C.S.Sp. as Rector of the "Saint Augustine" Interdiocesan ...
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  13 July 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian students' appeal: "Save Manipur" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - While the media and political attention seems to be waning on the social situation in Manipur, the scene of inter-ethnic violence, students from various Indian schools scattered throughout the ...
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  12 July 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Waiting for Pope Francis. History, friends and hopes in the "House of Mercy" Ulaanbataar (Agenzia Fides) - The appointment is sscheduled for Monday, September 4: at 9.30 a.m. Pope Francis will meet with the workers of charity in the last public event of his apostolic journey in Mongolia before th ...
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  12 July 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Al Shabaab continues to claim victims among civilians: yet another attack in the north of the capital Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Attacks on civilians continue in Somalia against a background of political instability, famine and floods. Another group of civilians lost their lives when they were blown up by a landmine ope ...