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• 30 April 2025
  AFRICA/TOGO: New Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Fides Agency) - Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Churches), appointed, on March 25, 2025, Father Anawia Bédilana Jon ...
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  30 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishop in Madhya Pradesh: “Pope Francis' welcoming approach has improved interreligious coexistence” Indore (Fides Agency) - “What surprised us positively is like a surprise from the Holy Spirit: so many people, so many non-Christians, who spontaneously appreciate Pope Francis as a man of dialogue, welcome, and compas ...
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  30 April 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Ibrahim Amos, kidnapped from his home on April 24, is free Abuja (Fides Agency) - Father Ibrahim Amos, parish priest of St. Gerald Quasi Church in Kurmin Risga, a village in the Kauru district of Kaduna state in northwestern Nigeria, has been released. This was announced by the ...
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  29 April 2025
  Dialogue, negotiations, disarmament: the Church's path to peace according to Pope Francis Vatican City (Fides Agency) - Three chairs, which soon became two, placed in front of the baptistery in St. Peter's Basilica. Facing each other, Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky - for a quarter of an hour a ...
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  29 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Kashmir: Catholics pray for peace between India and Pakistan Jammu (Fides Agency) - “The Catholic faithful of Kashmir are praying incessantly for peace in Kashmir. They pray in churches and homes. And they are marching the streets alongside other people of good will, carrying li ...
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  28 April 2025
  AFRICA - Pope Francis and his tireless pursuit of peace in the face of African conflicts by Luca Mainoldi Rome (Fides Agency) - Two images capture more than any others the relentless efforts of Pope Francis to put an end to the wars that are tearing African peoples apart. The first image shows Pope Fran ...
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  28 April 2025
  ASIA - “We must go to Asia.” What prompted Pope Francis to look East? by Paolo Affatato (Fides Agency) - Universality, inculturation, mercy, and reference to the Sacraments: throughout his pontificate, Pope Francis has recognized in the dynamic spread and living of the Gospel in Asian c ...
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  28 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Tension between India and Pakistan after attack in Kashmir: a Catholic among the victims Srinagar (Fides Agency) - The Parliament of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir passed a resolution today, April 28, expressing its dismay at the terrorist attack on April 22 in Pahalgam (Kashmir), which killed 26 peop ...
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  27 April 2025
  Cardinal Parolin to young people at the “Jubilee for Adolescents”: may Pope Francis' legacy become a way of life Vatican City (Fides Agency) - In times of darkness, “the Lord comes to us with the light of the Resurrection to illuminate our hearts.” This is what happened to Jesus' disciples when they encountered the Risen One, w ...
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  26 April 2025
  “Pope Francis, now we ask you to pray for us” by Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Fides Agency) - “The Easter sun shines brightly” on the day when the Church and the whole world bid farewell to Pope Francis, the 265th Successor of Peter, who passed away six days a ...
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  25 April 2025
  Cardinal Tagle: Pope Francis, Successor of Peter and Beloved Disciple by Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle Fides Agency publishes the homily delivered by Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle today, Friday, April 25, during Holy Mass—which he presided over—celebrated with the working co ...
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  25 April 2025
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - “Humility, courage, justice, and love. Pope Francis has been a tireless messenger of peace” by Aldo Berardi*, O.SS.T. Manama (Fides Agency) - How can we begin to describe the life of this extraordinary pastor? Letters are pouring in from all over the world praising his witness: a witness of humility, courage ...
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  25 April 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The nation remembers Pope Francis with gratitude, “a man of peace and reconciliation” Loikaw (Fides Agency) - In a refugee camp in Kayah State, in the Diocese of Loikaw - one of the areas affected by the ongoing civil war in Myanmar - Catholic faithful gathered for a prayer vigil according to the traditio ...
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  25 April 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest kidnapped in northwestern Nigeria Abuja (Fides Agency) - Another Catholic priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria. The victim is Fr. Ibrahim Amos, pastor of St. Gerald Quasi Parish in Kurmin Risga, in the local government area of Kauru, Kaduna State, in nor ...
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  25 April 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Xinhua News Agency: The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the “Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church in China” have sent a message of condolence to the Vatican on the death of Pope Francis Beijing (Fides Agency) - “Yi Hui Yi Tuan” - literally “One Association and One Conference,” a formula used to refer to the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the “Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Chu ...