News
6 December 2022
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Ignorance, discrimination and racism towards indigenous peoples must be fought by making their reality known
La Bolsa (Agenzia Fides) - "The violence and harshness with which those who defend their right to the territory and to live according to their vision of the cosmos are repressed, as well as those who accompany such reque ...
6 December 2022
AFRICA/MALI - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Rev. Jacques Damobe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On September 22, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Rev. Jacques Damobe, of the archdiocesan clergy of Bamako as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in M ...
5 December 2022
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The "Silsilah" movement: Advent, a season of reconciliation and peace between Christians and Muslims
Zamboanga city (Agenzia Fides) - May the time of preparation for Christmas, which the Catholic Church calls "Advent", "be a time of reconciliation and peace in the Philippines and throughout the world": this is the messa ...
5 December 2022
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Thousands of people take part in the bishops' march for peace in the east of the country
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Our march has no political meaning, it aims to show the world that we are one people, united for the national cause, united for the sovereignty of our country and for the dignity of our people ...
5 December 2022
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Disengagement of the Tigrinya forces: silence of arms for a peaceful return to daily life
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - The diplomatic breakthrough that led to the signing of the peace agreement on November 2 in South Africa and the disarmament agreement of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), signed ...
5 December 2022
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Violations of environmental and social rights in Latin America and the Caribbean: accompaniment of the Church
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Make known the pastoral experiences that accompany situations of socio-environmental violation at the local, national and regional-international level, as well as re-launching the appeal for the ...
5 December 2022
ASIA/IRAQ - Walking together in the faith of the Apostles. Interview with Mar Awa III, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
by Gianni Valente
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - A synodal ecclesial program is fruitful if «it helps everyone to walk in the faith of the Apostles cherished by Tradition». For this reason, references to synodal dynamics «c ...
3 December 2022
AFRICA/DR CONGO - National mourning for the massacre in a village in the east of the country; Sunday march for peace convened by the Bishops
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Three days of national mourning starting today, December 3, have been announced by Félix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to commemorate the victims of the massacre i ...
3 December 2022
AMERICA - More than 7 million people forced to flee their countries in Latin America: a joint effort by Red Clamor and UNHCR is needed
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - More than 7 million people are forcibly displaced and seeking asylum in Latin America and the Caribbean. Countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala and Venezuela have seen a sharp increase due to, ...
3 December 2022
VATICAN - The secret of Francis Xavier, "fire that kindles other fires"
by Gianni Valente
"The greatest of all missionaries of the modern age". Thus the monumental History of the Church edited by the great historian Hubert Jedin qualifies Francis Xavier, the Jesuit saint whose liturgical me ...
3 December 2022
VATICAN - Appointment of adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Emilio Nappa, until now official of the Secretariat for the Economy, as adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization with the office of p ...
3 December 2022
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - In Tigray, disarmament is ready, but subject to the withdrawal of Eritrean and Amhara forces from the region
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - While efforts continue in Ethiopia to try to normalize the situation in Tigray after the signing of the peace accords on November 3, there are difficulties for a real disarmament of the part ...
3 December 2022
ASIA/INDIA - Extraordinary exposition of the remains of St. Francis Xavier: a message of faith, simplicity, hope
Goa (Agenzia Fides) - The figure of the holy man who goes around the villages with a little bell and, draws the attention of children and adults, teaches the simplest prayers, the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Confiteor ...
2 December 2022
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Government and courts crackdown on blasphemy through social media
Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - An anti-terrorism court in Peshawar has sentenced Sana Ullah, a Pakistani citizen living in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to death for committing blasphemy on social media. The c ...
2 December 2022
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops' Advent Message: “Reflecting on the Gift of Life”
San José (Agenzia Fides) - In its Advent message, the Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica invites "to reflect on the gift of life". "While some sections of society despise this gift and sacred right, we live in a time of ...
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