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27 February 2023
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Independence Day: Bishops want more honesty and justice in today's society
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us be honest and do justice" is the title of the message that the Dominican Bishops' Conference traditionally publishes on February 27th on the occasion of the 179th anniversary of in ...
27 February 2023
ASIA/CHINA - "Scrutiny" of catechumens, "mandate" of altar servers, ecological initiatives. The intense start of Lent of the Chinese Catholic communities
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Solemn Eucharistic celebrations with great participation of the People of God, "scrutinies" of catechumens preparing for baptism, missionary mandate of lectors and extraordinary ministers of Hol ...
27 February 2023
AFRICA/DR CONGO - "We await clarification on the invasion of the Archbishopric by the Republican Guard"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We demand clarifications from the military hierarchy that raided the archbishopric and cathedral", says a statement from the Archdiocese of Lubumbashi where on the morning of Friday February 2 ...
27 February 2023
ASIA - Asian Churches: it is time to "widen the tent"
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic communities in Asia are called to "widen the space of their tent", to extend it to the needy, the marginalized, to all those, including non-believers, who need and await Christ Jesus' p ...
27 February 2023
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Psychological assistance, schools, food for 7 million people: Salesian missionaries always on the front line
Mekelle (Agenzia Fides) - "Sending humanitarian aid to Tigray has become easier and we continue to assist people who have been affected by the two years of conflict", wrote Father Abba Hailemariam Medhin, Superior of the ...
27 February 2023
EVANGELII GAUDIUM, 10 years/1 - Something that comes first
by Gianni Valente
"The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus" (EG, 1)
The Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (the Joy of the Gospel) was drawn up by Pope Francis in 2013 to "p ...
24 February 2023
ASIA - Delegates gathered for the Synodal Assembly: "There is always room under the tent"
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - The image of the "tent" that runs through the Continental Synodal Assembly underway in Bangkok from today, February 24, until February 26, is particularly suitable for Asian peoples and cultures ...
24 February 2023
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - After being injured by a landmine: Father Norberto Pozzi arrived in Bologna
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The 71-year-old Italian Carmelite missionary Norberto Pozzi, injured by a landmine on the road from Bozoum to Bocaranga in north-western Central African Republic (see Fides, 13/2/2023), arrived t ...
24 February 2023
AMERICA/HAITI - Chaotic conditions: There has been no news of Father Noah since the kidnapping two weeks ago
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Haiti is marked by hunger, violence, cholera and political instability. The Caribbean island is now a shattered country without institutions, with a starving population and armed gangs th ...
24 February 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Elections on February 25th and March 11th: The country is at a turning point
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two "old foxes" of Nigerian politics and one (almost) outsider, very popular with the younger electorate, are the three favorites in the presidential elections that will take place in Nigeria tomo ...
24 February 2023
ASIA/CHINA - Identity of Buddhist and Taoist monks available online
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - An "online archive" containing the identification data of all Buddhist and Taoist monks registered with the Chinese authorities, which can also be consulted by citizens who, from now on, will no ...
23 February 2023
AFRICA/ALGERIA -The three Nuns of Timimoun
Timimoun (Agenzia Fides) - The village of Timimoun rises in the homonymous oasis in the center of the Algerian desert, more than 1,200 kilometers south of Algiers. Tourist guides point it out for the red ochre color of i ...
23 February 2023
AFRICA/DR CONGO - In the east of the Country: Around 10 million people depend on humanitarian aid
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 2.25 billion dollars is needed to help the 10 million people in the three eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ituri, North and South Kivu) who, according to th ...
23 February 2023
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Lent, "a journey through trials and suffering, towards full joy"
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "What we are living this year is a Lent somewhat different from previous years, because Sri Lanka is going through a situation of great economic, political, social, and even moral suffering. We ...
23 February 2023
OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - "PUTUPUTURA'A", the meeting of the Catholics of the Raromatai archipelago
Uturoa (Agenzia Fides) - The mission of the laity baptized in the Church was the focus of the three-day meeting that has just ended in Uturoa on the island of Raiatea in the Raromatai archipelago, the Leeward Islands. Th ...
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