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12 March 2024
ASIA/MALAYSIA - The ecclesial community of Malaysia welcomes and prepares for the baptism of more than 1,700 adults
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - In recent years, the Catholic community in Malaysia has registered an increasing number of adults requesting baptism. Adults wishing to be baptized undertake a path corresponding to the "Ri ...
12 March 2024
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Mass kidnappings widespread: a criminal and political phenomenon rather than “religious”
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Safe Schools Initiative, a Nigerian organization founded after the kidnapping of 276 students from a secondary school in Chibok in 2014 (the fate of 100 of them is still unknown) and is commit ...
12 March 2024
ASIA/BAHRAIN - Sacred Heart Parish celebrates church consecration: “We are the true body of Christ”
Manama (Agenzia Fides) - Every year on March 3, the Sacred Heart Church in Manama celebrates the day of its consecration with a solemn ceremony in which all the parishioners take part. And again this year, on the LXXXIV ...
11 March 2024
AFRICA/CHAD - Situation appears to be calm during the day: At night, opposition members are arrested
N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - In N'Djamena, capital of Chad, where arrests took place during the night, the situation appears to be calm during the day, despite ongoing tensions. "During the day the situation seems calm, e ...
11 March 2024
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Shahbaz Bhatti: Remembering the murdered Catholic politician
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Every year in Pakistan, the Catholic politician Shahbaz Bhatti is remembered, killed by terrorists in Islamabad on March 2, 2011 at the age of 42. His personal story and his political commitme ...
11 March 2024
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "Accepting life as it comes". The "Familia Grande Hogar de Cristo" network celebrates at the Shrine of Luján
by Gianni Valente
Luján (Agenzia Fides) - They arrived by bus from the city and from the entire region of Buenos Aires, with drums, flags and colourful banners. Thousands of young people, adults and children who have ...
11 March 2024
AMERICA/HAITI - The 3 nuns of the Madeleine community and 4 of the 6 religious of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart have been released
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The three nuns of the Saint Joseph of Cluny congregation kidnapped on Tuesday, March 5 from the La Madeleine orphanage have been released. According to the Conference of Haitian Religious ...
9 March 2024
ASIA/VIETNAM - The gift of music, "spiritual food" for orphaned children
Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - Dominic Nguyen Van Lam, a 39-year-old priest from the diocese of Bui Chu, in southern Vietnam, was convinced from the start. He firmly believed and advocated for a very special form of ...
9 March 2024
AFRICA/ANGOLA - The 'small domestic church' in Bengo: "Lent began with the washing of feet"
Terreiro (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite all the rain, there is no shortage of people attending church services. And with the invitation to the path of prayer and meditation on the Word of God, the creation of a 'small domest ...
9 March 2024
AMERICA/PARAGUAY- Paraguay at the center of an arms trafficking network for Brazilian organized crime
Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "The group was very well organized, had assault rifles and military pistols, but also machine guns and anti-aircraft ammunition, armored vehicles, hand grenades and bulletproof vests; everythi ...
8 March 2024
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Apostolic Vicariate of Caronì hosts Missionary Week
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Venezuela organized Missionary Week, a series of initiatives dedicated to missionary animation and formation that the PMS are carryi ...
8 March 2024
AFRICA/RWANDA - No to the "sustainable mining" agreement between the EU and Rwanda
Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - How can the European Union sign an agreement on the sustainability and traceability of strategic minerals with a country that does not produce them itself, but obtains them illegally from a neigh ...
8 March 2024
ASIA/JAPAN - Catholic Tokyo International Center promotes "multicultural coexistence"
Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - The Japanese call it "tabunka kyōsei", that is, "multicultural coexistence". It is lived daily in the premises of the Catholic Church of Meguro in Tokyo, where the "Catholic Tokyo International C ...
8 March 2024
AMERICA/HAITI - Redemptorists report the kidnapping of three Catholic women religious
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Pray for peace and for an end to violence in the country where criminal groups spread fear and terror among the population" is the request of Father Renold Antoine, missionary of the Red ...
8 March 2024
EUROPE/RUSSIA - The Russian edition of the "Spiritual Exercises" of Ignatius of Loyola presented in Moscow
by Chiara Dommarco
Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "Warning: this is not a book to read", Father Stephan Lipke, director of the Saint Thomas Institute of Moscow, began with irony when opening the evening organized at the Inst ...
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