News Analysis

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  24 October 2023
  Time is Greater than Space. The Holy See diplomacy and the “Vietnamese lesson” by Victor Gaetan (In the decade 1965-1975, between 790,000 and 1.14 million Vietnamese civilians and soldiers died as a result of war while the US military suffered over 58,000 casualties. Between 1963-1973, the US d ...
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  21 September 2023
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Against the ‘Managua Wall’, the Holy See Can Rely on Traditional Diplomatic Tactics by Victor Gaetan Nicaragua is a member of the Central American Common Market (CACM) including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. China is CACM's second largest global trade partner, after the United Sta ...
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  31 August 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - The Bishop of Beijing prays for diplomatic ties between China and the Holy See to be established "as soon as possible" Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Joseph Li Shan of Beijing said a prayer for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the Holy See "as soon as possible" during the solemn Eucha ...
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  19 August 2023
  AFRICA - The rush for African lithium: an opportunity for the continent? Rome (Fides News Agency) - Africa holds 30-75% of the world's reserves of lithium, phosphate, copper, chromium, manganese, gold, platinum, diamonds and aluminum. Some of these are minerals, such as lithium, which are i ...
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  14 June 2023
  MIDDLE EAST - After the earthquake, the Arab countries re-embrace the "pariah nation": The end of Syria's isolation as seen by the Holy See by Victor Gaetan* Good news has been rare for Syria since 2011. Ravaged by over a decade of war, compounded by poverty and a pandemic, more persecution arrived on February 6 when earthquakes killed some 6,000 people ...
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  25 June 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Pastor who seeks peace and reconciliation in the midst of conflict Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not easy to be Archbishop of Bamenda in this time of conflict. People look at the Church with great expectations, but the crisis we have been experiencing since the clashes between the ar ...
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  11 June 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Insecurity jeopardizes the future of the country Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - The massacre at the Catholic Church in Owo (Ondo State, south-west Nigeria) on Pentecost Sunday marks a new dramatic stage in terms of the deterioration of the security situation in Nigeria and th ...
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  7 May 2022
  VATICAN - "As long as Christ is announced". The missionary heart of Albino Luciani by Gianni Valente "Missionaries are those who pull the cart of the Church. Those who pull the cart are those who ask for the places of fatigue and risk". This is what Albino Luciani repeated to his sister Antonia, many ...
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  9 April 2022
  EUROPE/POLAND - The mission ad gentes today Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelization in Poland, the new challenges of the mission ad gentes, young people, the conflict in Ukraine and the Jubilee Year on the occasion of the anniversaries of the Pontifical Mission So ...
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  2 April 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - New "men of the peripheries" in the Church of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh city (Agenzia Fides) - Deacons are "gatherers in the Lord's rice field", Samaritans, prophets, pastors at the service of the ecclesial community in the Asian country. The gift of 61 new deacons revitalizes th ...
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  25 March 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A new beginning for the Catholic Church: Father Christian Carlassare is ordained bishop in Rumbek Rumbek (Agenzia Fides) - Almost a year after the dramatic attack in which he suffered serious injuries (armed men broke into his bishop's house on the night of April 25-26, 2021), Bishop Christian Carlassare returns to R ...
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  5 March 2022
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Tibhirine's spiritual heritage Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Involve the university community and widen the circle of people who can learn about the spiritual heritage of the monks of Tibhirine, martyrs in Algeria in 1996, their writings; and promote the des ...
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  30 October 2021
  VATICAN - For a Church which is always and entirely missionary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If the month of October, which the Church defines as "missionary month" is a special time during which the Catholic faithful all over the world are called to rediscover and renew their miss ...
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  9 October 2021
  EUROPE/SWEDEN - Life of Faith and Mission of Chaldean Catholics in Northern Europe Götheborg (Agenzia Fides) - What does it mean to be Catholic in a Scandinavian Country, in a context with a Lutheran majority, but also of widespread atheism? And what are the missionary challenges of a "minority within ...
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  26 June 2021
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Among poverty and instability, the prophetic voice of the Church in Congo Uvira (Agenzia Fides) - "Whether it is foreign powers (France, Belgium, USA, or others), neighboring countries (Uganda, Rwanda, etc.) or some Congolese leaders, warlords, multinationals, NGOs, or even some members of the ...