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27 March 2023
ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Cân Tho, Peter Le Tan Loi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Peter Le Tan Loi, of the clergy of Cân Tho, Viêt Nam, until now professor and dean of studies in the Saint Pierre Doan Co ...
27 March 2023
ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of bishop of Phât Diêm, Peter Kieu Cong Tung
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Peter Kieu Cong Tung, of the clergy of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh, Hôchiminh Ville, until now chancellor and lecturer at Sa ...
27 March 2023
ASIA/VIETNAM - Appointment of bishop of Hà Tinh, Louis Nguyên Anh Tuán
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed Bishop Louis Nguyên Anh Tuán, until now titular of Catrum and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Thành-Phô Hô Chi Minh, Hôchiminh Vil ...
27 March 2023
ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Poona
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Poona, India, presented by Bishop Thomas Dabre.
The Holy Father has appointed Bishop J ...
25 March 2023
ASIA/LEBANON - Annunciation, national holiday. Lebanese Christians and Muslims together invoke Mary in the country besieged by the crisis
Kornet Chehwan (Agenzia Fides) - In a Lebanon shaken by a devastating economic crisis and yet another paralysis of the political system, on the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord Christians and Muslims are once again ...
25 March 2023
ASIA/TAIWAN - Sisters on a Lenten "pilgrimage/retreat". To give thanks for Creation and remember their founder
Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - A pilgrimage is like "a spiritual retreat in motion". For this reason, the Taiwanese community of the Missionary Sisters of the Congregation of the Sacred Side and of Our Lady of Sorrows has chos ...
25 March 2023
AFRICA/UGANDA - Laid the first foundations of the health center in Yoro for thousands of refugees: a work illuminated by the hope that comes from the Cross
Yoro (Agenzia Fides) - "We finally have the foundations of the new health center in Yoro in which we are involved in assisting refugees in this northwestern part of the country", reports to Fides Sister Laura Gemignani, ...
24 March 2023
The beatitude of martyrs, friends in Paradise
by Gianni Valente
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Today, March 24, 2023, marks the 31st Day of Missionary Martyrs.
In 1992, the then Youth Movement of the Italian Pontifical Mission Societies (today Missio Giovani) proposed for ...
24 March 2023
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - 100 years of the parish of Pabré, a sign of grace and hope in a country plagued by insecurity
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "All believers must unite for a world more worthy of God, a world where everyone is happy", urged Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, in his homily delivered during of t ...
24 March 2023
AMERICA/BRAZIL - In the state of Piauí, 80% of the population suffers from lack of food
Teresina (Agenzia Fides) - 80% of the inhabitants of Piauí, a Brazilian state located in the northeast of the country, in the arid region of Sertão, suffer from hunger. According to the report of the "Rede Brasileira d ...
24 March 2023
EUROPE/ITALY - A "penitential celebration of reparation" after the massacre of Cutro
Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - The "Pro Civitate Christiana" of Assisi organizes and invites to live, today, March 24, a Penitential Celebration of Reparation in the form that will be deemed most appropriate, after the massacr ...
24 March 2023
ASIA/CHINA - Free medical care and scholarships for children from poor families: Charity Lent led by Chinese Catholic communities
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Throughout the world, prayer, fasting and almsgiving are the good works that the Catholic Church recommends and offers to her sons and daughters during Lent, the time of penance that precedes th ...
23 March 2023
ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Parliamentary elections, the ruling party reduces its membership
Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "Starting from the downsizing of the Party that has always been in power, there are signs of great movements in the political field in Kazakhstan. There remains, in society, the question of the l ...
23 March 2023
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Father Norberto, a Carmelite missionary injured by a mine, had already escaped three road ambushes
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Father Norberto Pozzi, born in 1952, Discalced Carmelite missionary from Lecco, injured in the north-west of Central Africa by a landmine on February 10 (see Fides, 13/2/2023), was the victim of ...
23 March 2023
AMERICA/HAITI - The priest of the Clerics of St. Viator who had been kidnapped at Croix des Bouquets has been released
Croix des Bouquets (Agenzia Fides) - Father Jean-Yves Medidor, priest of the Clerics of St. Viator, parish priest of Christ-Roi le Meilleur in Port-au-Prince has been released. The news was announced by Father Nestor Fil ...
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