News

• 
  23 February 2023
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Lent, "a journey through trials and suffering, towards full joy" Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "What we are living this year is a Lent somewhat different from previous years, because Sri Lanka is going through a situation of great economic, political, social, and even moral suffering. We ...
• 
  23 February 2023
  OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - "PUTUPUTURA'A", the meeting of the Catholics of the Raromatai archipelago Uturoa (Agenzia Fides) - The mission of the laity baptized in the Church was the focus of the three-day meeting that has just ended in Uturoa on the island of Raiatea in the Raromatai archipelago, the Leeward Islands. Th ...
• 
  22 February 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: the "protagonist" of the mission is the Holy Spirit. We must invoke Him Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the Church "everything must be conformed to the requirements of the proclamation of the Gospel; not to the opinions of the conservatives or the progressives, but to the fact that Jesus reaches p ...
• 
  22 February 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The number of the latest jihadist attacks worsens Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - At least 70 soldiers have been killed in four days in two different clashes with jihadist groups in northern Burkina Faso. The bloodiest clash dates back to February 17 when at least 51 sol ...
• 
  22 February 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Fasting from hatred: in time of Lent, the life of displaced people of the civil conflict Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us fast from hatred towards others, even our enemies, to discover Christ who lives in them. Let us fast from pessimism and the dark thoughts that gather in our hearts today, to fill us with C ...
• 
  22 February 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The missionaries in the Anjanamasina juvenile prison: Making young people feel loved, important to someone, not a burden to get rid of Ankililoaka (Agenzia Fides) - 'Trano zaza maditra', or Home for naughty boys, is the name of the state rehabilitation center which receives more than a hundred children and young people in Anjanamasina, a suburb of the c ...
• 
  22 February 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Start of Lent, praying for the Pope's intentions Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "We must seize the opportunity of Lent to return to the Our Father". This is the encouragement addressed this year to the Catholics of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou by Archbishop joseph Gan Junq ...
• 
  21 February 2023
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST- Lent. Catholic Patriarchs open the time of the "Great Fast" under the sign of the Fathers of the Church Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Eastern Churches begin the penitential season of Lent while earthquakes, poverty, conflicts and political crises continue to sow pain and anguish in the region. The Patriarchs of the Eastern ...
• 
  21 February 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Uncertainty and the economic crisis characterize the election campaign Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to the insecurity (only yesterday, February 20th, at least eight police officers were killed in the south-east of the country), Nigeria is also facing serious economic difficulties ahe ...
• 
  21 February 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Missionary biker, last foreign bishop, says goodbye to Kalimantan Sanggau (Agenzia Fides) - At the wheel of his "two-wheeler" he covered miles and miles on the rough roads of West Kalimantan. He visited villages, celebrated the Eucharist and gave the sacraments, catechized children, yo ...
• 
  21 February 2023
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Death of the bishop of Los Angeles: housekeeper's husband arrested Los Angeles (Agenzia Fides) - The Los Angeles County authorities have arrested the husband of a woman who worked as a housekeeper for Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell, who was found dead in his home in Hacienda Height ...
• 
  21 February 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Father Norberto Pozzi is to have a second operation in Italy Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Norberto is on his way to Italy," says Father Aurelio Gazzera, a confrere of the 71-year-old Italian Carmelite missionary Norberto Pozzi, who was injured in a land mine explosion on the B ...
• 
  20 February 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Walking, together, for the protection of life Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Walking and praying side by side, religious, laity, priests, bishops for the protection and dignity of life, from birth to natural death, for the promotion of the family, for the defense of every ...
• 
  20 February 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Magdalene and the Tibetan church, an "oasis of coexistence" even for the Chinese state media by Marta Zhao Lhasa (Agenzia Fides) - The China News Service (CNS) (chinanews.com.cn) describes the Catholic community of Yanjing as an "oasis of coexistence" between religions and a "place of encounter" between culture ...
• 
  20 February 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Attention to the use of new technologies for the vote on February 25 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Our votes are precious; we must use them well, encouraging all eligible citizens to vote en masse for God-fearing, honest, dynamic and transparent leaders for a better Nigeria", says the final co ...