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  4 January 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A special "Year of the Family", with young people in mind Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - The year 2023, in the diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi will be a "Year of the Family": this was announced by Archbishop Joseh Arshad, inviting all the parishes, associations, movements and eccl ...
• 4 January 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Bishop of Baroda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 31, 2022, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Fr. Sebastião Mascarenhas, S.F.X., former superior general of the Society of the Missionaries of Saint Francis Xavier ...
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  4 January 2023
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Benedict XVI to Missionary Childhood: "I see in you little collaborators at the service that the Pope provides to the Church and to the world" Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - From September 7 to 9, 2007, the Holy Father Benedict XVI made an Apostolic Journey to Austria, on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the Mariazel Shrine. The national dir ...
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  4 January 2023
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Benedict XVI, "a Good Shepherd who takes care of a small distant flock" Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - "We carry in our hearts a grateful memory of the interest and care of a Good Shepherd towards his small distant flock". This is the image of Benedict XVI that the Apostolic Administrator of Uzb ...
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  3 January 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Catholic priest murdered in north-west of the country Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest has been killed in Burkina Faso. Father Jacques Yaro Zerbo was assassinated by unidentified armed men on Monday, January 2. According to a statement sent to Fides signed by ...
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  3 January 2023
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "The absence of war is not real peace. The country needs a real dialogue between the social and political partners" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Zimbabwe is experiencing a situation of "negative peace" says the Episcopal Commission for "Justice and Peace" of Zimbabwe, in its commentary on the message of Pope Francis for the World Day of P ...
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  3 January 2023
  From experience to experience. Proclaiming Christ according to Joseph Ratzinger by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith". This was the title of the XIII General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the last in which Benedict XVI to ...
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  3 January 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Vandalism in a Catholic church in Chhattisgarh Narayanpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh (central India) was vandalized by a tribal mob. The incident, which happened yesterday afternoon, January 2, in the ...
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  3 January 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The news of the death of Benedict XVI in areas of the country exacerbated by ethnic conflicts Malakal (Agenzia Fides) - The news of the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reaches the most remote and critical corners of the planet every day. Among these, Agenzia Fides received a testimony from the outskirts of So ...
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  2 January 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese bishops and the People of God pray for Pope Ratzinger: may he continue to intercede for the good of our Church from heaven Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Gratitude and joy, intertwined with an emotion full of consolation, prayers and grateful memory for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who left this earth on the last day of 2022. These are the sentim ...
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  2 January 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The faithful pray and remember Benedict XVI, "Pope of charity" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - As in many other Asian countries, the Catholics in the Philippines are praying for Benedict XVI, who died on the morning of December 31 at the age of 95. "I wish to thank all of you who accompani ...
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  2 January 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - A new attack on a village in the north of the country claimed by ISIS-Mozambique Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – The attack on December 30 on the village of Namande, in the district of Muidumbe, province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, has been claimed by ISIS-Mozambique. The jihadists posted im ...
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  31 December 2022
  Like a beautiful sunny day. The "good life" of Joseph Ratzinger by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Now that the increasingly fragile figure of Joseph Ratzinger has left this earth, the Church is more alone on this earth. And Pope Francis is also more alone. The unparalleled p ...
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  31 December 2022
  Benedict XVI , "humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord" has returned to the Father’s House Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has returned to the Father’s House. His heart stopped beating at 9.34 AM on Saturday morning in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, which the 95-year-old Po ...
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  30 December 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - A special day of joy, faith and sharing in the Dosso mission Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "Hand in hand we can achieve great things and bring joy to those around us". Beyond the clichés, Christmas is a difficult time in a Muslim country where Christians are a tiny minority. “However ...