News

• 19 May 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Morondava Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverand Jean Nicolas Rakotojaona, of the clergy of Antananarivo, currently Rector of the Major Seminary of Philosophy Saint Paul Apôtre in Antsir ...
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  19 May 2023
  ASIA/TURKEY - Iskederun and Antioch, faith amid the rubble. The construction of a pastoral center to celebrate the Eucharist is being studied Izmir (Agenzia Fides) - Rubble, interior and exterior wounds, closed roads, sleeping tents instead of houses. This is the reality told by Father Adrian E. Loza, OFM, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
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  19 May 2023
  AFRICA/MALI - Arthur Kenneth Elliott freed after seven years of imprisonment Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The news of the release of Arthur Kenneth Elliott, the Australian doctor kidnapped in Burkina Faso seven years ago, arrived a few hours ago. It was exactly on January 15, 2016 when Dr. Elliot, no ...
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  19 May 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Pastoral care of Communication: "a dynamic, dialogical, interactive and multidirectional process" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - During the Week of Communication that the Church in Brazil is experiencing in view of the 57th World Day of Social Communications, on May 21, the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) ...
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  19 May 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Traveling and promoting the spirituality of dialogue and "dialogue of life": the path of the Focolare Movement Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - With the visit to the Catholic parish of St. Odilia in Tangerang, in the archdiocese of Jakarta, the visit to Indonesia of Margaret Karram and Jesús Morán, President and Co-President of the Fo ...
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  17 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Massacre in Darfur and camps ready to welcome refugees in South Sudan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - While the fighting continues to intensify in Khartoum, the most serious situation in terms of human casualties is in the province of Darfur. In the past week, clashes have claimed more than 350 ...
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  17 May 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Franciscan Sisters of Sukabumi were born from the mission of a Dutch religious congregation Sukabumi (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary history of the Franciscan Sisters in the city of Bergen op Zoom (Boz), in the Netherlands, fully expresses the authentic spirit and apostolic dedication of many people and congre ...
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  17 May 2023
  VATICAN - Francis Xavier's apostolic zeal: leaving one's homeland to preach the Gospel is the greatness of every missionary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today's general audience was dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier, Patron of the missions. Continuing the cycle of catecheses dedicated to the "passion for evangelization", Pope Francis first ...
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  17 May 2023
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Families "promoters of human life, builders of society, custodians of the common home and active subjects of evangelization" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The purpose is to highlight that the family, living its vocation to be a community of life and love, is the protagonist of human life in all its dimensions. We need families to increasingly assu ...
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  16 May 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - War and cyclone, a nation on its knees Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - In Sittwe, capital of the Biman State of Rakhine, in western Myanmar, cyclone Mocha, which hit the area on May 14 and 15, killed at least 40 people, devastating houses, fields, also destroying ...
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  16 May 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - After the conflicts in the east of the country, instability in the west which is approaching the capital Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The latent conflict in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo is worsening, reaching areas not far from the capital, Kinshasa. Between May 11 and 13, the "Mobondo" militia of the Yaka co ...
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  16 May 2023
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Educating young people for peace, a sign of hope in the midst of the Colombian conflict Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Education is essential to prevent children and adolescents from repeating the violence that plagues the region. This was stated by Juan Casas, director of the Jesuit Refugee Service Colombia (JRS ...
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  16 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - A month of war: the population is at the end of their tether and the country in chaos Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Fighting and looting continue to hinder humanitarian groups from working to help the Sudanese population whom are exhausted after a month of armed conflict. The situation in the country does no ...
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  15 May 2023
  AMERICA/CHILE - God's wisdom contrasts with 'politics' and many demographic 'programs': Bishop of Melipilla on Mother's Day Melipilla (Agenzia Fides) - "Celebrating Mother's Day must also mean a willingness on the part of those responsible for work, health, business and housing programs, so that women can fulfill their mission of motherhood w ...
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  15 May 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - President William Ruto has apologised to Kenya over the Shakohola massacre Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – In the country which is shocked by the massacre in the Shakahola forest (see Fides, 3/5/2023), requests are multiplying to regulate not so much freedom of worship as the compliance with the la ...