News

• 23 March 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - St. Ignatius' charism attracts young people in Pakistan Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The charism of Saint Ignatius continues to arouse the interest of young people in Pakistan and the Order welcomes young men who want to learn about the religious life of the Jesuits. During Lent ...
• 22 March 2024
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Resignation and appointment of Metropolitan Archbishop of Gulu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gulu (Uganda) presented by His Exc. Msgr. John Baptist Odama. The Holy Father ha ...
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  22 March 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Two Catholic diocesan priests go to Asia and America as missionaries Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Two diocesan priests from the Archdiocese of Seoul will go as missionaries "ad gentes" to proclaim the Gospel in Guatemala and Japan. In the Eucharistic celebration held at Myeongdong Cathedral ye ...
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  22 March 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Witnesses with a "burning heart". Sunday, March 24 "Day of Missionary Martyrs" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A witness that "shines", that illuminates the spiritual path, that strengthens it. This is the testimony of the martyrs who are celebrated in Italy every year on March 24th on the occasion of the D ...
• 22 March 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President of the Bishops' Conference calls for the release of independence fighter Nnamdi Kanu Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - " I appeal to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to explore civil remedy in the release of Nnamdi Kanu so as to restore economic and social lives to southeast", said the President of the Catholic Bishops ...
• 22 March 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - In the run-up to the elections: Bishops invite you to a prayer initiative New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The members of the Franciscan religious family of India have gathered to pray and fast together with the Protestant faithful for 51 hours of continuous prayer. Large Catholic communities scatt ...
• 22 March 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Konongo-Mampong Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Konongo-Mampong, Ghana, presented by Bishop Joseph Osei-Bonsu. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Msgr. John Opoku-Agyemang ...
• 21 March 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Ambongo: "unscrupulous greed" is the root of new colonialisms by Luca Attanasio Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa, in addition to leading the diocese of the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), also holds important ...
• 20 March 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The people of God dispersed in Loikaw due to the war seek unity around the Eucharist Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Loikaw, a town in eastern Myanmar, in the Burmese state of Kayah, is deserted. It is now often referred to as a "ghost town" because civilians have fled for shelter from clashes between the regul ...
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  20 March 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - "The Church is suffering but there are lights of hope" Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Difficult" is how Sister Marcella Catozza of the Franciscan Sisters of Busto Arsizio, who has been working in Haiti for 20 years, describes the situation of the Church in the Caribbean c ...
• 20 March 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan Youth conference: ‘War an attempt to beat Sudanese back into submission’ Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - More than 160 Sudanese youth convened from Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Chad, and Egypt, to discuss ways to bring an end to the ongoing conflict. To provide humanitarian aid ...
• 20 March 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Kananga Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 19, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Félicien Ntambue Kasembe, C.I.C.M., until now bishop of Kabinda and apostolic administrator of the archdiocese of Kananga, Democratic Republic ...
• 18 March 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - General elections announced; a Jesuit: "to start again from the Constitution" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Election Commission of India has announced that the general elections in the largest democracy in the world will hold a seven-phase general election starting on April 19, over a period of ...
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  16 March 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Nihil obstat" into the sainthood cause of Filipino teenager Nina Ruiz-Abad Laoag (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See has granted the "nihil obstat" ("nothing stands in the way") to begin the process of beatification of a Filipino teenager, Niña Ruiz-Abad (1979-1993), who from now on will be called ...
• 16 March 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The new cold war passes through mercenaries Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Is the Central African Republic a "Paradise of mercenaries"? The country has long been the scene of the intervention of various private military companies (PMCs), at least since March 2003, when ...