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• 12 February 2024
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Dodoma Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Father has appointed the Reverend Wilbroad Henry Kibozi, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Dodoma, until now vice rector and professor at the Holy Family Major Seminary in ...
• 12 February 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of Bishop of Morombe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Jean Désiré Razafinirina, of the clergy of the diocese of Toliara, until now rector and professor at the Saint Jean Baptiste Major Seminary of V ...
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  12 February 2024
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle celebrates “Lunar New Year” with Chinese Catholic students in Rome: “Jesus is the sun, we are the moon” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church does not shine with its own light. She can only give the light of Christ to the world by reflecting it on her opache body, like the moon reflects the light of the sun. This is the emblem ...
• 12 February 2024
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Erection of the diocese of Canindeyú, Paraguay, and appointment of first bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 10, the Holy Father erected the diocese of Canindeyú, Paraguay, with territory taken from the diocese of Ciudad del Este, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan Church of As ...
• 12 February 2024
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - Resignation and appointment of Bishop of Nouakchott Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 10, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Nouakchott, Mauritania, presented by Bishop Martin Happe, M.Afr. The Holy Father has appoi ...
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  10 February 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - XXXII World Day of the Sick: "The health system is on the verge of collapse, but there is not only violence on the island" by Antonella Prenna Jérémie (Agenzia Fides) - "Our hospital in Port-au-Prince remains a small beacon of hope in the face of the darkness that envelops the city today," says Father Massimo Miraglio, the only Italian ...
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  10 February 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - The emergence of criminal gangs in Haiti Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Around 300 gangs control 80% of the capital of Haiti, as the UN special envoy for the Caribbean country, Maria Isabel Salvador, reported to the UN Security Council (see Fides, 22/1/2024). ...
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  10 February 2024
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - In the “Keo-Seima” nature reserve: Catholic community begins building a church Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - Part of the “Keo Seima” nature reserve, the certified forest conservation project is located in eastern Cambodia, in the provinces of Mondulkiri and Kratié. The region is also the ancest ...
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  9 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops at the end of the assembly: Progress must be accompanied by unity Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - India, with its 1.4 billion inhabitants, has made "enormous progress" in recent decades, but on this path of growth it is important that development is inclusive and not only benefits "a small ...
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  9 February 2024
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - On the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita: Sisters of the “Talitha Kum” project celebrate World Day Against Human Trafficking Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Talitha Kum Zambia (TAKUZA) celebrated yesterday, February 8, World Day against Human Trafficking, on the feast day of Saint Josephine Bakhita, patron saint of victims of modern slavery and human ...
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  9 February 2024
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Catholic Association of Friends meets in the spirit of the encyclical 'Fratelli tutti' Foya (Agenzia Fides) - Three hundred Catholic women from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone recently met in the parish of St. John Vianney in Foya, in the light of 'the mystery of the Visitation'. "The international experi ...
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  9 February 2024
  EUROPE/HUNGARY -Meeting of European National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies: “Synodality as the ‘modus operandi’ of the Church” Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the European Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), held this year in Budapest (see Fides 6/2/2024), ended on Thursday evening, February 8, with a Eucharisti ...
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  9 February 2024
  ASIA/TURKEY - Istanbul: Byzantine church to be used as a mosque in the future Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - After Hagia Sophia, another historic Byzantine church in Istanbul, which has been used as a museum for the last 79 years, will once again house Islamic prayers and rites and be used as a mosque ...
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  8 February 2024
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Integration of Aboriginal children: the contribution of schools after the wound of the referendum Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The integration of Aboriginal people into Australian society and the social, cultural and spiritual reconciliation in the nation pass through school: with this conviction, the Redfern Jarjum Coll ...
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  8 February 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Religious abducted in Plateau State are free Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The two Claretians who were kidnapped on the night of February 1 in the central Nigerian state of Plateau have been released. Fr. Ken Kanwa C.M.F, parish priest of St. Vincent De Paul Fier Church, ...