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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEWS ANALYSIS - Growing religious extremism in Asia and Church response
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - On March 28, Palm Sunday, the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, witnessed the bomb attacks, leaving two bombers dead and at least 20 people injur ...