News Analysis

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  4 November 2024
  ASIA/AZERBAIJAN - COP29 in Baku and major international meetings for economic and geopolitical issues by Cosimo Graziani Baku (Agenzia Fides) - From 11 to 22 November the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will take place, in its 29th edition. This year ...
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  15 October 2024
  Cardinal Marengo: mission is a mystery by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo IMC Rome (Agenzia Fides) - We are pleased to publish the Prolusion made today by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, Consolata missionary and Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, on the occasion of the ...
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  28 September 2024
  BRICS expansion process shows limits of the organization by Cosimo Graziani Kazan (Agenzia Fides) - The next BRICS Summit will take place from 22 to 24 October in the Russian city of Kazan. The geopolitical and economic alliance known as BRICS takes its name from the initi ...
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  14 September 2024
  The dialogue between China and the Holy See and the realism of the Pope by Gianni Valente "I am pleased with the dialogues with China. The results are good. Even for the appointment of bishops, things are progressing with goodwill". This is what Pope Francis said on Friday during the p ...
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  21 August 2024
  EUROPE/UKRAINE - This is how the Orthodox Church connected with the Moscow Patriarchate has been banned from Ukraine by Chiara Dommarco Kiev (Fides News Agency) – On Tuesday, August 20, the Verkhovna Rada, the unicameral Parliament of Ukraine, approved, in its second reading, Bill 8371, entitled "On the protection of the constitut ...
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  26 July 2024
  ASIA - The Ancient Church of the East in China: A Missionary Perspective by Gianni Valente (We publish below the presentation by the Director of Fides at the 2024 Xi'an International Jingjiao Forum, a Conference dedicated to the Syriac Church of the East (Jingjiao in Chinese) held from 5 ...
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  17 July 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - In Xi'an academics and scholars turn the spotlight back on the history of the ancient Church of the East in China by Gianni Valente Xi'an (Agenzia Fides) - The pagoda in Daqin, although in quite a state and unusable, still stands out in the mountains of Zhouzhi county, a few dozen kilometres from Xi'an. That pagoda – say a gro ...
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  12 July 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Will India’s foreign policy change after the last elections? by Cosimo Graziani New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The unfortunate outcome of the elections in the world's most populous democracy for the Indian government has raised the suspicion among more than one observer that Prim ...
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  15 June 2024
  AFRICA - Seoul is also targeting African countries in search of strategic minerals, new markets and UN support Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "Shared growth, sustainability and solidarity". These are the three "pillars" of cooperation between African countries and South Korea, according to the joint statement issued at the end of the Af ...
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  8 April 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - 'Money, money, money'. The reasons for conflicts and the arms race according to missionary Archbishop, Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi by Victor Gaetan* Archbishop Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi, age 65, holds a startling number of key positions, yet he’s calm as a church usher. President of Caritas Internationalis, Secretary General of the Federation ...
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  27 February 2024
  BRICS+ Is A Polyhedron, Pope Francis’s Favorite Image by Victor Gaetan* Numerous multilateral organizations sprang up after World War II, all with one center—the United States. The World Bank and International Fund were created in 1944 to stabilize the postwar global e ...
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  15 January 2024
  EUROPE/CYPRUS - The betrayed hopes of the "open-air prisoners" of Pournara by Roberto Morozzo della Rocca* Nicosia (Agenzia Fides) - Of the 27 countries of the European Union, the Republic of Cyprus is the most eccentric and marginal. Both in geographical terms (it exists on the Asian contine ...
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  8 January 2024
  Diplomacy and mission of the Church: This is why the Pope speaks to the Ambassadors by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The speech that the Bishop of Rome addresses every year to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See is not just an expression of the current Pope's "personal opinion" o ...
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  23 December 2023
  VATICAN - Pius XII, the Korean War, the West and that Christmas of 1951 by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Christmas 1951, like now, the world was at war. At the time it was the Korean War. It began with the invasion of South Korea by the North Korean army (June 25, 1950). An immense ...
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  1 December 2023
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - A Light Shining from Astana: How Kazakhstan Turned Tragedy into Positivity by Victor Gaetan The Republic of Kazakhstan, five times bigger than France, established diplomatic relations with the Holy See in 1992. It turned the catastrophe of 1.5 million victims of nuclear experiments into an ...