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  15 May 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Acts of vandalism in the St. Carol Lwanga cathedral Kahama (Agenzia Fides) - In these days the bishops of Tanzania are scheduled to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican to discuss, among other things, alarming issues such as the desecration of several buildings of the Ca ...
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  15 May 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Karnataka chooses the Congress Party: a change for democracy and freedom Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "The election result in Karnataka could be a decisive moment in India's recent political history. The defeat of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), the ruling party until now in the state and al ...
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  15 May 2023
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - "Self-determination and a State for the Palestinian people". Heads of Churches in Jerusalem commemorate 75 years since the "Nakba" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem urge all to pray and work "so that God may grant wisdom to move towards a better future, so that the Palestinian people may be granted the right t ...
• 15 May 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Kisangani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 13, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Fr. Lénard Ndjate, M.C.C.I., until now provincial of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus in the Democratic Republ ...
• 15 May 2023
  AFRICA/COTE D’IVOIRE - Appointment of bishop of Katiola Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 13, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Honoré Beugré Dakpa, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Gagnoa, until now secretary general of the Catholic University of ...
• 15 May 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of auxiliary bishop of Bombay, Msgr. Allwyn D'Silva Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 13, 2023, the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Bombay, India, presented by Bishop Allwyn D’Silva, titular of D ...
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  14 May 2023
  Cardinal Tagle: This is how Chinese Catholics love and follow the Successor of Peter Rome (Agenzia Fides) - We publish the full version of the speech given by Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, on the occasion of the presentation of the volume in Chinese " ...
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  13 May 2023
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christians take to the streets for a "solidarity demonstration" after the attacks on Chaldean Patriarch Sako Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - More than two hundred Christians gathered in Tahrir Square, in the center of Baghdad, on the evening of Friday May 12, to show their solidarity with Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako, Patriarch of th ...
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  13 May 2023
  VATICAN - "Antiquum ministerium", fruit of the Second Vatican Council by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Although the figure of the catechist appears already after the First Vatican Council (1870), with the emergence of a great catechetical movement, the driving impulse ...
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  12 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The political and social crisis affects above all the poor Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "The current political crisis in Pakistan is the manifestation of a confrontation between powers and potentates which is not beneficial for the country. Tensions and street demonstrations have a ...
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  12 May 2023
  ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop Stephen Chow to "La Civiltà Cattolica": Many Chinese Catholics hope for a meeting between Pope Francis and President Xi Jinping Rome (Agenzia Fides) - About a third of the dioceses of mainland China are "waiting their respective episcopal appointments", revealed Jesuit Bishop Peter Chow Sau-yan, head of the diocese of Hong Kong, in an in-depth in ...
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  12 May 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Eparch of Adigrat: the impact of the crisis in Tigray also affects pastoral service programs Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - Famine, cities and homes looted, hospitals destroyed, businesses razed to the ground, sacred places desecrated, rapes. The people of Tigray have been suffering unimaginable suffering for almost ...
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  12 May 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The President criticizes the military for the death of the Minister of Labour killed by his bodyguard Kampala (Agenzia Fides). "It is a matter of great embarrassment for the army that a soldier assigned as a bodyguard ends up killing those he was supposed to protect", Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said at the funeral ...
• 12 May 2023
  AMERICA/PANAMA - No amount of money can compensate for the damage that mining can cause Panama (Agenzia Fides) - "Metal mining is neither feasible nor sustainable in a country with the water and biodiversity richness and climate vulnerability of Panama. This is proven by many international and national stud ...
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  12 May 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: mission "is not our work, but God's" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Mission, like communion, "is above all a mystery of grace". Mission "is not our work, but God’s; we do not do it alone, but moved by the Spirit and docile to his action". Thus Pope Francis once a ...