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  3 January 2025
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - The Star Singers' visit to Rome and Mass with Pope Francis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the Star Singers from Switzerland has concluded their visit to Rome. They represented more than 10,000 children and young people, together with about 2,000 adult volunteers, ...
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  3 January 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Sister Esther, North Korean youth and the (silent) work for reconciliation by Pascale Rizk Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - It was a "December horribilis” for South Korea. Amidst political turmoil and lives lost in the latest plane crash, the clouds of sadness and pain do not seem to leave the sky ...
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  3 January 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Pain and dismay in the Archdiocese of Owerri after the shooting in a church that caused the death of a young man Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri highly regrets the shooting incident that took place on the eve of the New Year at the premises of St. Columba's Catholic Church Amaimo, leading to the death of ...
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  2 January 2025
  ASIA/SYRIA - Orthodox Patriarch Yohanna X extends his hand to Syria's new political leaders: "our Cross will remain embracing the Crescent of tolerance" Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - "We extend our hand to work with you to build the new Syria, and we are waiting for Mr. Al-Sharaa and his new administration to stretch out their hand to us in turn", said Yohanna X, Greek-Orth ...
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  2 January 2025
  AFRICA/MALI - Bamako accuses Algeria of complicity with terrorist groups active on its territory Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The Malian government has expressed “its deep concern at the persistence, on the part of some Algerian authorities, of continuous acts of interference in the internal affairs of the Republic of ...
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  2 January 2025
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Zambian President thanks the Church for supporting his country's debt restructuring efforts Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Forgive us our trespasses and grant us your peace". This is the theme chosen by Pope Francis for the 58th World Day of Peace celebrated yesterday, January 1, 2025. And it is precisely to the rol ...
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  1 January 2025
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: Christ was born of a woman and is one of us. For this reason, he is able to save us Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Christ Jesus "was born of a woman and is one of us. For this reason, he is able to save us". On the day when the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Mary, the Most Holy Mother of God, Pope F ...
• 1 January 2025
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Resignation and succession of the Bishop of Cân Tho Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Cân Tho (Vietnam), presented by His Exc. Msgr. Stephanus Tri Buu Thiên. He is succeeded by His Exc ...
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  1 January 2025
  WORLD DAY OF PEACE - Disarming words by Mauro Armanino* Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - In the conclusion of his captivity diary "Chains of Freedom", his friend and confrere Pier Luigi Maccalli invites us to "disarm words". Two years of captivity in the desert ...
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  31 December 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest and pharmacist shot dead in the street Nnewi (Agenzia Fides) - The Christmas season for the Catholic community in the Nigerian Diocese of Nnewi is marked by the murder of Father Tobias Chukwujekwu Okonkwo, a Catholic priest and pharmacist, who was shot dead i ...
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  31 December 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - "Let the doors of all churches be open to all": Chinese Catholic communities begin the Jubilee of Hope with enthusiasm by Marta Zhao Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The evening of Saturday 28 December marked the official beginning of the Jubilee Year in the Diocese of Beijing. Priests, nuns and numerous lay people gathered in front of the p ...
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  30 December 2024
  Lives broken, lives donated. For the salvation of all by Gianni Valente Another year comes to an end. And this year too, the stories of Catholic missionaries and pastoral workers killed in the last 12 months, gathered and published by Fides Agency, give a glimpse of the ...
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  30 December 2024
  MISSIONARIES AND PASTORAL WORKERS KILLED IN 2024 Dossier by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – «We can ask them: “How did you manage to survive such trials?” And they will tell us what we heard in this passage from the Second Letter to the Corinthia ...
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  29 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - The Pope: Never remain with your head turned to your mobile phone, a family is happy only if it communicates Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Do you know why the Family of Nazareth is a model? Because it is a family that converses, that listens, that talks". This is what Pope Francis said this morning at St. Peter's Square fo ...
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  29 December 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The Jubilee of Hope has also begun in Shanghai Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - With a solemn procession behind the Cross, the public reading of the papal Bull proclaiming the Jubilee, and the community recitation of the Jubilee prayer, the Chinese Catholic communities hav ...