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  21 February 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The ten-month war has devastated the country Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The war that broke out in Sudan ten months ago has triggered a devastating humanitarian crisis. As of January 2024, there were over 10.7 million displaced people, the largest displacement crisi ...
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  21 February 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Gorom: Precarious conditions in refugee camps Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The most basic services are lacking, refugees in the Gorom camp, west of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are struggling to get food," report local sources, given the deteriorating conditions ...
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  20 February 2024
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Zimbabwean bishops warn of increasing poverty in their Country Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Another Bishops' Conference in Africa warns that the government's economic policies are worsening the poverty in which the majority of the population lives. Like the Bishops of Nigeria (see Fides ...
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  20 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - The synod with the outcasts Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The "outcasts", known as Dalits or "casteless", are those excluded from Indian society, marginalized by a caste system rooted for thousand of years. Although the Constitution has formally abol ...
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  20 February 2024
  VATICAN - Present and future of the "Missio ad gentes" at the center of the Course for the English-speaking directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - About thirty diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), mostly from the African continent, are participating in the missionary formation course that opened yesterday afternoon ...
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  20 February 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako, message to the Chaldeans: Iraqi Christians are also infected by sectarianism Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Sectarianism is destroying the sense of belonging of the Iraqi nation, and even Christians are are "drawn into these sectarian logics and its divisions". For them, a fragile minority community, th ...
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  19 February 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Resumption of jihadist attacks in the north, but with a new "modus operandi" Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Attacks by jihadists linked to the ISIS militia "Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamma'ah" have increased in the Pemba province, northern Mozambique. In recent days, the small Mozambican fishing village of Q ...
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  19 February 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Possible introduction of compulsory military service leads to young people fleeing Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - There is great concern in Burmese society, especially among young men and women, after the ruling military junta declared its intention to introduce military service as "conscription", without gi ...
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  19 February 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillians on the island of Flores: “It is not good for man to be alone” Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "They are like a big family with 'one heart, one soul and one spirit' that cares for those who suffer and feel alone. This is the special quality that characterizes the group of young Camillians ...
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  19 February 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President of the Bishops' Conference: “Economic reforms lead to extreme poverty” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - " As a result of the government’s reform agenda, millions of Nigerians have been reduced to a life of grinding poverty, wanton suffering, and untold hardship as never before in our national hist ...
• 17 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Khammam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Prakash Sagili of the clergy of Cuddapah, until now parish priest of Saint John Bosco in Chittor and coordinator of the CCBI Health Apostolate, as ...
• 17 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Khandwa, Augustine Madathikunnel Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Augustine Madathikunnel, until now administrator of the diocese of Khandwa, India, as bishop of the same diocese. Msgr. Augustine Madathikunnel w ...
• 17 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Nalgonda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Karnam Dhaman Kumar, M.S.F.S. (Missionaries of Saint Francis de Sales d’Annecy), until now parish priest of S. Bartolomäus in Münster and ...
• 17 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Purnea Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Francis Tirkey, of the clergy of the diocese of Purnea, India, until now director of the Social Service Centre of Purnea, as bishop of the same di ...
• 17 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of Bishop of Indore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Indore, India, presented by Bishop Chacko Thottumarickal, S.V.D. The Holy Father has appointed the Rev ...