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12 April 2023
ASIA/MYANMAR - Easter amidst fear, violence and hope in Mandalay, where innocent civilians die
Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - "Christ is risen and we are working to remove the sepulchral stones that threaten to bury our hopes. We strive for justice, peace and the healing of our war-wounded land. We trust in God that, ...
12 April 2023
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Unprecedented violence that only national reconciliation can eradicate: "May the Risen Christ restore fraternity and justice"
San José (Agenzia Fides) - "Our nation is going through one of the most difficult moments in its history due to the number of murders that plunge our families into mourning, the violence that has penetrated all our comm ...
10 April 2023
VATICAN - Pope Francis: Jesus comes to us every time we proclaim him
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We encounter Jesus by witnessing him". He himself "comes to meet us every time we announce him". And when one encounters Jesus, no obstacle, no human calculation "can prevent us from proclaiming h ...
7 April 2023
ASIA/CHINA - The Easter Triduum celebrated again in the Chinese dioceses, in the sign of communion
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - After three years of pandemic, the Chinese Catholic communities have finally resumed the solemn celebrations of the Easter Triduum and live intensely the "highlight" which represents the culmina ...
7 April 2023
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Gaza, Holy Week under the bombs. Father Romanelli: even from here we continue to announce the victory of the Risen One
Gaza (Agenzia Fides) - The Christians of Gaza are living Holy Week while the sky above them is once again torn by the lightning of war. In the night between Thursday and Good Friday, air raids by the Israeli armed forces ...
5 April 2023
ASIA/VIETNAM - Easter for young people: communion and proclamation of hope
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of Easter is a special moment for young Catholics in Vietnam: in the various dioceses, starting from Palm Sunday, gatherings and meetings of young people will take place in the dif ...
5 April 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Pentecostal church attacked; new mass kidnapping of students
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In the early hours of April 2, Palm Sunday, the Pentecostal church in Akenawe, Tswarev, in the Benue State, in central northern Nigeria, was attacked. The assailants, suspected to be a band of Ful ...
5 April 2023
AFRICA - Three Catholic nuns awarded for their development projects in Africa
Santa Clara (Agenzia Fides) - "The future of Africa is in the hands of Africans. It is up to us to build our future; I will return home as an African to show concepts and African solutions for Africa", said Sister Juunza ...
5 April 2023
AMERICA - The Church at the service of Peace: "to work intensively on the structural causes of the conflict on the Continent"
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The joys, hopes, sorrows and cries of our peoples resonated in the Congress, challenging us as Church for a committed and effective evangelical prophecy. This will help us overcome the state of ...
4 April 2023
ASIA/CHINA - Installation of Bishop Shen Bin in Shanghai
by Gianni Valente
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of Tuesday, April 4, Chinese Bishop Joseph Shen Bin, head of the Diocese of Haimen (Jiansu province), was installed in the Diocese of Shanghai.
The ceremony - r ...
4 April 2023
ASIA/MYANMAR - The "Missionaries of Mercy" and the queue of people for confessions. Easter in the midst of violence
Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - There are five priests, who already during the Jubilee of Mercy, in 2015, had received from the Pope the mandate to dispense God's forgiveness in the sacrament of Confession. Today, the team of f ...
4 April 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The artist who designed the statue for the Mass of Pope Francis in Juba has been killed
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The artist who designed the statue exhibited at the Mass presided over by Pope Francis during his pilgrimage to South Sudan from February 3 to 5, 2023 has been killed. According to the Catholic Rad ...
4 April 2023
AFRICA/NIGER - Via Crucis in Niger always with the hope of the resurrection: the hope of the missionary
Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 14 traditional Stations of the Cross at Easter, Father Rafael Casamayor shared the "Stations of the Cross" which, every Friday, symbolically celebrates the community of Dosso where ...
4 April 2023
AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church convenes a National Dialogue for Peace in view of a viable proposal to the authorities and the country
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "In order to collect all the possible contributions for peace in justice and to make a viable proposal to our authorities and to the country, we have convened the National Dialogue for Peace ...
3 April 2023
AMERICA/CHILE - Recognition of ecclesial organizations for the defense of human rights during the dictatorship
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank you for this work, for risking your life to protect those who were persecuted for their ideas at the time, for believing in a different world, for fighting for justice". These are the wo ...
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