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  26 January 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Kidnapped religious women released Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The six sisters of the Congregation of Saint Anne who were kidnapped on January 19 are free (see Fides 22/1/2024). Together with them, the other two captives, the driver of the minibus in ...
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  26 January 2024
  AFRICA/MALI - Tensions between Algeria and Mali: Military junta wants to end agreement signed in Algiers in 2015 Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – There is a lot of tension between Mali and Algeria. The military junta, which took power in Bamako in 2020, released a communiqué yesterday, January 25, in which it stated that it "recognized ...
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  25 January 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Archbishop makes documentary about the “Desaparecidos” of Concepción Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The memory of the events surrounding the 1973 coup and an appeal to those who still have confidential information about the prisoners disappeared during the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) are at ...
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  25 January 2024
  ASIA/THAILAND - The formation Center for priests in Saeng Tham confirms and renews its educational mission Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Many Thai priests and consecrated persons have spent years of formation and personal growth at the "Lux Mundi" College and Major Seminary in Saeng Tham, an institute that has played a very valua ...
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  25 January 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Despite the curfew: the chain of violence continues Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Attacks on communities in Plateau state, in northern Nigeria, continue. Between December 23 and 26, more than 200 people died in a series of attacks by armed gangs of Fulani herdsmen (see Fides, 2 ...
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  25 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “The majority of perpetrators are young people who are sent to the front to be killed” Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "The majority of the perpetrators are teenagers, young people without life experience and training, like a piece of meat to be slaughtered, sent to the front to be killed," said Antonio Crameri, b ...
• 25 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of bishop of Zhengzhou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Thursday 25 January 2024, the Reverend Taddeo Wang Yuesheng received episcopal consecration, following his appointment by the Holy Father on 16 December 2023 as bishop of Zhengzhou, ...
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  25 January 2024
  ASIA/CINA - The Reverend Thaddeus Wang ordained Bishop of the Diocese of Zhengzhou by Gianni Valente and Marta Zhao Zhengzhou (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Zhengzhou has a new Bishop, after being without a resident Bishop for over seventy years. Today, Thursday January 25, the episcopal ordinat ...
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  24 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillian missionaries help mentally ill people: “We feel honored” Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Here we have no time to grow old because the various activities keep us young," writes Father Luigi Galvani from the island of Flores in Indonesia. The Camillian missionary, who is a pioneer in ...
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  24 January 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Refuge and home for displaced people: aid programs for refugees and returnees Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Central African Republic is both a country that welcomes refugees and an area from which its inhabitants flee to seek their fortune in neighboring countries. This is because several Central A ...
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  24 January 2024
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Narrating the mission: Pauline Jaricot Prize is awarded for the second time Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - The life of Christian communities, the missionary and pastoral activities of local churches and the witness to the vitality and beauty of the proclamation of the Gospel are the criteria taken into ...
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  23 January 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - 360° policy: Russian mercenaries, Rwandan soldiers and perhaps American "contractors" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "President Faustin-Archange Touadera is implementing a 360° policy so as not to tie himself too closely to an international actor", a local source from the Central African Republic tells Fides. ...
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  23 January 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - 'Reaching for Hope, Branching together': Family Day 2024 in the Sacred Heart Parish in Manama Manama (Agenzia Fides) - "We are the people of one God, we are one family, we come from different countries, with different languages, cultures and traditions, but we are all brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ", emphas ...
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  23 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic studies no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - It is a turning point for religious minorities in Pakistan: the study of Islam is no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students in schools at all levels. The Federal Ministry of Education and V ...
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  22 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Election campaign: “Avoid instrumentalizing the election” Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Call for "observation of the democratic process", for a "peaceful, honest, fair and dignified election" and for the avoidance of religious content and topics in the political election campaign s ...