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23 January 2024
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - 360° policy: Russian mercenaries, Rwandan soldiers and perhaps American "contractors"
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "President Faustin-Archange Touadera is implementing a 360° policy so as not to tie himself too closely to an international actor", a local source from the Central African Republic tells Fides. ...
23 January 2024
ASIA/BAHRAIN - 'Reaching for Hope, Branching together': Family Day 2024 in the Sacred Heart Parish in Manama
Manama (Agenzia Fides) - "We are the people of one God, we are one family, we come from different countries, with different languages, cultures and traditions, but we are all brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ", emphas ...
23 January 2024
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic studies no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - It is a turning point for religious minorities in Pakistan: the study of Islam is no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students in schools at all levels. The Federal Ministry of Education and V ...
22 January 2024
ASIA/INDONESIA - Election campaign: “Avoid instrumentalizing the election”
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Call for "observation of the democratic process", for a "peaceful, honest, fair and dignified election" and for the avoidance of religious content and topics in the political election campaign s ...
22 January 2024
ASIA/CHINA - State University honors Thomas Aquinas on his 800th birthday
Wuhan (Agenzia Fides) - The School of Philosophy of the Chinese State University "Huazhong University of Science and Technology" (HUST) in the city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, will hold an academic ceremony in J ...
22 January 2024
AMERICA/HAITI - Which of the 300 Haitian gangs kidnapped the 6 nuns?
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - There is still no news about the total of eight people (including six religious sisters) who were kidnapped in Haiti on January 19. The sisters, who belong to the Congrégation des Sœurs ...
20 January 2024
AMERICA/ECUADOR - From "island of peace" to one of the most violent countries in the world
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - From "island of peace" to the eleventh most violent country in the world, on a par with Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, accor ...
20 January 2024
ASIA/VIETNAM - The diocesan phase of the cause of beatification opens for two missionary bishops
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The testimony of the two bishops François Pallu (MEP) (1626-1684) and Pierre Lambert de La Motte (MEP) (1624 - 1679), the first missionaries sent to the Far East, is precious for Vietnamese Catho ...
19 January 2024
AFRICA/SUDAN - More and more civilians are caught up in the “war between the generals”
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The war in Sudan has now transformed from a clash between the regular army (SAF) led by General Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the command of Mohamed Hamdan Da ...
19 January 2024
ASIA/INDONESIA - Presidential election: Ash Wednesday rite postponed to Thursday
Ruteng (Agenzia Fides) - So that the faithful can experience the important moment of the elections with full attention and with a conscience enlightened by faith and the search for the common good and charity, and on the ...
19 January 2024
ASIA/BAHRAIN - "The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia is a symbol of freedom and religious coexistence"
Awali (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, in Awali, also known as the Cathedral in the Desert, in addition to its predominantly religious nature, is a place of welcome and sharing for thousands of peop ...
18 January 2024
ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako calls for withdrawal of sectarian militias from the Nineveh Plain
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, calls on the government in Baghdad "to assume its national and legal responsibilities by adopting practical and clear measures ...
18 January 2024
EUROPE/SPAIN - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, José María Calderón Castro
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 19, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed for a another five years the Reverend Father José María Calderón Castro ...
18 January 2024
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Prosecutor investigating links between narcos and corrupt officials killed
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - César Suárez, the Ecuadorian prosecutor assassinated yesterday, January 17, was carrying out delicate investigations. The prosecutor was murdered with at least 20 gunshots last night in Guayaqui ...
18 January 2024
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - 16 non-governmental organizations dissolved, including some Catholic organizations
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the release of 19 Catholic Bishops, priests and seminarians (see Fides, 15/1/2024) detained in the prisons of Managua, it became known that sixteen non-governmental organization ...
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