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  3 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Corpus Christi: numerous processions throughout the country Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Chinese Catholic communities throughout the country took part in the processions that took place on Sunday, 2 June, on the occasion of the feast of Corpus Christi, at the end of the three days t ...
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  3 June 2024
  AFRICA/TOGO - A WEB TV created by missionaries to communicate with the Togolese and African faithful Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - The words of the founder of the Society of African Missions, Melchior de Marion Brésillac: "...seek every opportunity to proclaim the Good News" inspired the African missionaries when they create ...
• 3 June 2024
  OCEANIA/TUVALU - Appointment of ecclesiastical superior of the Missio sui iuris of Funafati Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Eliseo Napiere, M.S.P. until now member of the Presbyteral Council and parish priest of Saint James the Less in Perris, in the diocese of San ...
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  3 June 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - ANC loses absolute majority: "South Africa enters uncharted territories" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for "Justice and Peace" of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Southern Africa (which brings together the bishops of South Africa, Botswana and Eswatini) confirms that the ge ...
• 3 June 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of bishop of Ajmer Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 1, 2024, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Ajmer, India, presented by Bishop Pius Thomas D’Souza. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 3/6/2024) ...
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  3 June 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - After mass violence in Sargodha: Christian dies of serious injuries Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) - Nazir Masih, 72, a Christian who was attacked and beaten by a mob on May 25 in Sargodha, a city in the Pakistani province of Punjab, died today, June 3, in Rawalpindi Hospital. He had been ac ...
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  1 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The diocese of Changzhi retraces the history of the Catholic Church in China to commemorate one hundred years since the "Primum Concilium Sinense" Changzhi (Agenzia Fides) - Looking back at the history of the Church in China, the Diocese of Changzhi (in the Chinese province of Shanxi) commemorates the "Primum Concilium Sinense", the first General Council of the Cat ...
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  1 June 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “Chain of Harmony”: Silsilah Movement launches prayer initiative Zamboanga (Agenzia Fides) - "In the forty years of the history of the Silsilah Movement, we can remember many events, some sad, others joyful, but they challenged us to move forward and keep going. One of these painful m ...
• 31 May 2024
  ITALY/EUROPE - Father Giuseppe Pizzoli confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 6, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed Rev. Giuseppe Pizzoli as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societie ...
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  31 May 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - After Father Basil Gbuzuo, Father Oliver Buba has also been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Oliver Buba, kidnapped on May 21 in the Nigerian state of Adamawa (see Fides, 22/5/2024), is free. This was announced by the Bishop of Yola, Stephen Dami Mamza, in whose diocese Father Bub ...
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  31 May 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Cyclone Remal: human cost is very high Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The human cost is very high, there are obstacles to transport and delays in medical care. More than 700 pregnant women in Patuakhali district are struggling to reach the main health services for ...
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  31 May 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - 2024 parliamentary elections: African National Congress loses absolute majority Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The African National Congress (ANC) is in the lead in the counting of the partial results of the parliamentary elections of May 29, but has not achieved an absolute majority. According to t ...
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  30 May 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal Nzapalainga: “A small elite is trying to appropriate all goods while a people lives in poverty” by Luca Attanasio Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - In the various areas of the Central African Republic, the proportion of Christians varies between 75% and 85% of the total population. This percentage makes the country one o ...
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  30 May 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - The journey of faith of the Malabar Catholic community among the 'basements' of Little Kerala by Antonella Prenna Abbasiya (Agenzia Fides) – Jilīb is one of the oldest and most populated neighborhoods in Kuwait, divided into five blocks. Of these, block 4 is also known as ʿAbbāsīya. Here is the parish de ...
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  29 May 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - In Xiamen Bishops and scholars from Taiwan and mainland China meet to "walk together" in a Seminar dedicated to inculturation Xiamen (Agenzia Fides) - "Walking together in love, hand in hand": is the title of the Seminar on inculturation held jointly by Bishops and scholars of the Church of Taiwan and the Church of mainland China. The seminar w ...