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  5 February 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Two religious kidnapped in Plateau State: in Nigeria questions are being asked about the complicity in the banking sector for the payment of ransoms Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two Claretian missionaries (Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) were kidnapped by armed men on the night of February 1 in Plateau state, central Nigeria: Father Ken Kanwa C.M.F., parish ...
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  4 February 2024
  The Abu Dhabi prophecy, 5 years later by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On February 4, 2019, when the Bishop of Rome and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar signed the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together in Abu Dhabi, their une ...
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  4 February 2024
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - Five years of Abu Dhabi Document: Bishop Martinelli underlines the prophetic significance Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - In this "dramatic moment in the history of humanity, marked by so many conflicts", the Document on Human Fraternity signed in Abu Dhabi by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar Ahmed al ...
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  3 February 2024
  AFRICA - Beginning of a new era: Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger leave the Economic Community of West African States Rome (Agenzia Fides) - With the announcement last January 28 of the withdrawal of the military regimes of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the integration process ...
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  3 February 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - On the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Archdiocese of Karachi: laying the foundation stone for a new church Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In the area of Safoora Goth, a district in the eastern part of the metropolis of Karachi, capital of the Sindh province, in southern Pakistan, the number of Catholics has increased and the famil ...
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  3 February 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Caritas St. Petersburg: A “small bridge” to escape drug and alcohol addiction By Chiara Dommarco St. Petersburg (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas St. Petersburg, led by Dr. Natalia Anatol'evna Pewtsova, was founded in 1993 and has been offering concrete help to those in need and training programs for pro ...
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  2 February 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Day of Consecrated Life: six new nuns among the “Shanti Rani Sisters Dinajpur (Agenzia Fides) - The experience of consecrated life, a life entirely given to God, close to Him in prayer and charity, continues to attract young women in Bangladesh. This is what the Catechist Sisters of the ...
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  2 February 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - President of the Bishop's Conference: "Everyone must respect the rule of law" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We have been advising Kenyans to respect the law. Even before the elections in 2022 we called on Kenyans to remain peaceful and where they were not happy with the outcome of the election, they ...
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  2 February 2024
  VATICAN - Pope's message for World Mission Day 2024. The mission is to invite everyone to the Lord's banquet. By Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Evangelization" is "a tireless going out towards all humanity" to invite everyone "to the Lord’s banquet". This celebration is that of the "happiness of his Kingdom", the c ...
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  1 February 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 32 people die in a series of attacks Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A series of attacks on villages in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), that began on January 27 and continued until yesterday, January 31, left at least 32 civili ...
• 1 February 2024
  VATICAN - Dr. Benjamín Estévez de Cominges appointed Secretary General of the Secretariat for the Economy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today, the Holy Father has appointed Dr. Benjamín Estévez de Cominges, until now delegate for the Administration of the Dicastery for Evangelization in the Section for first evangelizat ...
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  1 February 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Third anniversary of the coup: "silent strike" and prayer Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Some Catholic faithful of Myanmar are spending the third anniversary of the coup carried out by the military junta on February 1, 2021 in silent Eucharistic adoration, praying the Rosary, placing ...
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  1 February 2024
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The Camillian presence makes the faith journey of the entire community grow Masaka (Agenzia Fides) - In the year of the 25th anniversary of the arrival of the Camillians in Uganda (2024-2025), the Order of Ministers of the Sick, rooted in the charism of the Order's founder and Saint Camillus of ...
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  31 January 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Peace and human brotherhood: King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa received the Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia Manama (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, January 30, 2024, in the presence of three Ministers and the Protocol, His Majesty the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, received Bishop Aldo Berardi, O.SS.T., Apostolic Vicar ...
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  31 January 2024
  ASIA/TURKEY - Reparation Mass in Istanbul church desecrated by the attack Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow, Thursday, February 1st, at 7 p.m., a mass of reparation will be celebrated in the church of the Nativity of Our Lady in Büyükdere, in the Sariyer district, north of Istanbul, wher ...