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  16 May 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Floods: In view of the increasing number of victims, the bishops ask for solidarity with those affected Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The floods that have hit Kenya since March have so far claimed at least 289 lives, according to to figures presented by the authorities in Nairobi on May 14. Rains could continue as a result of ...
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  16 May 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - One hundred years since the first meeting of bishops in Indonesia: bearers of hope in anticipation of the Pope's visit Jakarta (Agenzi Fides) - For a hundred years, the mission of the Church in Indonesia has been to be a bearer of hope, and the task of the bishops has been to lead a "community of hope" that moves together for the good of ...
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  16 May 2024
  AFRICA/BENIN - Father Giovanni Benetti: Mission means "being fascinated by Jesus Christ" Calavi (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission means being fascinated by Jesus Christ and trying to be a mirror of his goodness, wherever the breath of his Spirit leads us," says the Italian missionary Father Giovanni Benetti, a prie ...
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  15 May 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Regular Army Airstrikes: Two Churches hit in Chin State Kalay (Agenzia Fides) - Air strikes by the Burmese regular army hit a Catholic church and a Baptist church in the village of Lungtak, in the town of Tonzang, in the Burmese state of Chin, western Myanmar. The bombardment ...
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  15 May 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Attack on Macomia: food supplies looted Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - New details have emerged about the attack on Macomia, capital of the district of the same name in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado (see Fides 10/5/2024). The economy in Macomia wa ...
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  15 May 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - Nuncio Nugent: "We cannot change the world but we can create fraternity and a climate of trust" by Antonella Prenna Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - "I arrived in Kuwait in the middle of the Covid period, in February 2021, and presented my Letters of Credence in May of the same year although the obligation to wear ...
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  14 May 2024
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - When the death of the poor does not appear in the news by Mauro Armanino Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - They were killed on Monday May 6th. They made the mistake of trusting the military and the "Volunteers of the Fatherland" who accompanied them. They thought their ID ca ...
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  14 May 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnapping of students: over 1,680 kidnappings in the last 10 years Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nine students are still in the hands of the kidnappers who on May 9 attacked the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH) in Osara, Kogi state, northern Nigeria. An unknown number ...
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  14 May 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians in prayer and on pilgrimage for the beatification of Akash Bashir Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "The life of the Servant of God Akash Bashir is an inspiration and a ray of light in Pakistan and in the world plagued by terrorism and unrest," says Father Lazar Aslam OFMCap, a Capuchin priest ...
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  14 May 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Peace negotiations in Kenya: Not everyone is convinced of the initiative Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A new round of peace negotiations between the South Sudanese government and the Non-Signatory Opposition Group (NSOG) began on May 3 in Nairobi (Kenya). Since the civil war in South Sudan erupted i ...
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  14 May 2024
  VATICAN - The 'Concilium Sinense' of Shanghai "between history and present": International Conference at the Pontifical Urbaniana University Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Shanghai, May 15, 1924: the “Primum Concilium Sinense”, the First Council of the Catholic Church in China, begins in the Cathedral of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Bishops, Vicars General, religiou ...
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  14 May 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North and South Kivu: More clashes between army and M23 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Two people died yesterday, May 13, in the bombing of the village of Minova, in the Kalehe region, in the province of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According ...
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  13 May 2024
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The grateful memory of Father Carlos Múgica remains in the hearts of his people, 50 years after his assassination by Stefano Lodigiani Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - “Father Carlos still urges us today to strengthen in each neighborhood a community that organizes itself to accompany the life of our people, and he challenges us ...
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  13 May 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Tensions in Manipur affect voter turnout: Christians pray for reconciliation and peace Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - In Christian churches in Manipur, believers are praying "for real reconciliation and peace", while in the north-east Indian state the tensions following the inter-ethnic violence that broke out a ...
• 13 May 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Verapoly Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 11, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Antony Valumkal, until now rector and parish priest of the National Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Ransom in Vallarpadom, Kochi, as auxilia ...