News

• 15 April 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of Bishop of Buta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Martin Banga Ayanyaki, O.S.A., until now regional vicar of the Order of Saint Augustine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as bishop of ...
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  15 April 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The civil war began a year ago and does not seem to want to end Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Around 16,000 dead and over 8 million displaced and refugees: the worst displacement crisis in the world. These figures illustrate the humanitarian tragedy of Sudan's forgotten war, which broke ...
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  15 April 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Bishop of Loikaw: "There is light in the faces of the suffering people, but a dawn of new hope for the nation is urgently needed" Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - "I am in the parish of Soudu, a village in the diocese of Loikaw. It is one of the parishes where pastoral life is still possible. Our cathedral in Loikaw is still occupied by the Burmese army. M ...
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  15 April 2024
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Floods in Rufiji: Hundreds displaced, crops destroyed, population at risk of epidemics and malnutrition Muhoro (Agenzia Fides) - The Rufiji region in western Tanzania is facing enormous difficulties and the district is facing one of the worst humanitarian crises. Thousands of people need immediate humanitarian assistance i ...
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  13 April 2024
  VATICAN - A new training course for the diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Rome Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Around 30 representatives of the National Directions of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Kenya, Cameroon, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Spain and Bahrain will take pa ...
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  13 April 2024
  The martyrology of Catholics in Rwanda in 1994 by Stefano Lodigiani Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In Rwanda, which in 1994 was struck by a tremendous genocide that reached the impressive figure of one million victims in a population of 6,733,000 inhabitants (44% Catholic ...
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  12 April 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Democratic Party wins in the parliamentary elections Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - In the parliamentary elections on April 10 in South Korea, the Democratic Party and its coalition won a clear victory: according to the official count of seats, the parties received a total of 175 ...
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  12 April 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Religion is an instrument of peace and not of war: the conclusions of the seminar in Nairobi promoted by the Dicastery for interreligious dialogue Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Religion must not be exploited to fuel conflicts which are instead determined by political, strategic and economic factors. This is the meaning of the message published at the conclusion of the ...
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  12 April 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - "Bride who adorns herself with her jewels". The six rites that make the Catholic Church in Kuwait vibrant by Antonella Prenna Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - Maronite, Coptic Catholic, Syro Malabar, Syro Malankara, Melkite and Latin are the six rites that bring together in one large Church the varied Catholic community of ...
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  11 April 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - Bishop Berndt: "We learn peace and non-violence from the people in Okinawa" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We learn peace and non-violence from the people of Okinawa. These gentle people give us the Gospel, they give us a completely Franciscan value such as that of peace, both internally and in ...
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  11 April 2024
  VATICAN - Pontifical Yearbook, the title of "Patriarch of the West": Pope claims honorary title again by Nikos Tzoitis Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In the Pontifical Yearbook 2024, published by the “Libreria Editrice Vaticana” (LEV), available since Tuesday April 9, appears on the page with the titles dedicated to Pope ...
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  11 April 2024
  AFRICA/TOGO - University academics are asking to stop the process of adopting the new Constitution Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - In Togo, where the Gnassingbé family has been in power for over 50 years, there will be no future presidential elections after Togolese deputies approved a new constitution between March 25 and 2 ...
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  11 April 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Generous participation of Chinese Catholic communities in the 2024 "National Collection" to support relief initiatives in emergency situations Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - As in the past eight years, this year, at the end of the Lenten season many Chinese Catholics took part in the National Collection Day, an initiative promoted by Jinde Charites, the organiz ...
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  11 April 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - Scholarships for disadvantaged students awarded to children of the elite: "This must stop" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "When you sit on the money for the poor, they will cry and God will hear them", warns John Bonaventure Kwofie, archbishop of Accra, commenting on the misappropriation of funds for scholarships int ...
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  10 April 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - The face of the Japanese Catholic Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the ad limina visit of the Bishops of Japan, Fides publishes some figures and information about the Catholic Church in Japan. The Catholic Church in Japan today has 419 ...