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4 January 2023
EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Benedict XVI to Missionary Childhood: "I see in you little collaborators at the service that the Pope provides to the Church and to the world"
Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - From September 7 to 9, 2007, the Holy Father Benedict XVI made an Apostolic Journey to Austria, on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the Mariazel Shrine. The national dir ...
4 January 2023
ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Benedict XVI, "a Good Shepherd who takes care of a small distant flock"
Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - "We carry in our hearts a grateful memory of the interest and care of a Good Shepherd towards his small distant flock". This is the image of Benedict XVI that the Apostolic Administrator of Uzb ...
3 January 2023
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Catholic priest murdered in north-west of the country
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest has been killed in Burkina Faso. Father Jacques Yaro Zerbo was assassinated by unidentified armed men on Monday, January 2. According to a statement sent to Fides signed by ...
3 January 2023
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "The absence of war is not real peace. The country needs a real dialogue between the social and political partners"
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Zimbabwe is experiencing a situation of "negative peace" says the Episcopal Commission for "Justice and Peace" of Zimbabwe, in its commentary on the message of Pope Francis for the World Day of P ...
3 January 2023
From experience to experience. Proclaiming Christ according to Joseph Ratzinger
by Gianni Valente
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith". This was the title of the XIII General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the last in which Benedict XVI to ...
3 January 2023
ASIA/INDIA - Vandalism in a Catholic church in Chhattisgarh
Narayanpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh (central India) was vandalized by a tribal mob. The incident, which happened yesterday afternoon, January 2, in the ...
3 January 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The news of the death of Benedict XVI in areas of the country exacerbated by ethnic conflicts
Malakal (Agenzia Fides) - The news of the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reaches the most remote and critical corners of the planet every day. Among these, Agenzia Fides received a testimony from the outskirts of So ...
2 January 2023
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese bishops and the People of God pray for Pope Ratzinger: may he continue to intercede for the good of our Church from heaven
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Gratitude and joy, intertwined with an emotion full of consolation, prayers and grateful memory for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who left this earth on the last day of 2022. These are the sentim ...
2 January 2023
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The faithful pray and remember Benedict XVI, "Pope of charity"
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - As in many other Asian countries, the Catholics in the Philippines are praying for Benedict XVI, who died on the morning of December 31 at the age of 95. "I wish to thank all of you who accompani ...
2 January 2023
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - A new attack on a village in the north of the country claimed by ISIS-Mozambique
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – The attack on December 30 on the village of Namande, in the district of Muidumbe, province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, has been claimed by ISIS-Mozambique.
The jihadists posted im ...
31 December 2022
Like a beautiful sunny day. The "good life" of Joseph Ratzinger
by Gianni Valente
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Now that the increasingly fragile figure of Joseph Ratzinger has left this earth, the Church is more alone on this earth. And Pope Francis is also more alone.
The unparalleled p ...
31 December 2022
Benedict XVI , "humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord" has returned to the Father’s House
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has returned to the Father’s House. His heart stopped beating at 9.34 AM on Saturday morning in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, which the 95-year-old Po ...
30 December 2022
AFRICA/NIGER - A special day of joy, faith and sharing in the Dosso mission
Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "Hand in hand we can achieve great things and bring joy to those around us". Beyond the clichés, Christmas is a difficult time in a Muslim country where Christians are a tiny minority. “However ...
30 December 2022
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The re-birth of two of the three priests kidnapped before Christmas, in prayer for the third who is still kidnapped
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two of the three priests kidnapped before Christmas, within five days, have been released within a day of each other. This is Father Mark Ojotu, from the diocese of Otukpo, in the eastern state of ...
30 December 2022
VATICAN - Missionaries killed in the year 2022
by Stefano Lodigiani
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – According to information gathered by Agenzia Fides, 18 missionaries were killed in the world in 2022: 12 priests, 1 re ...
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