News

• 11 April 2024
  AFRICA/TOGO - University academics are asking to stop the process of adopting the new Constitution Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - In Togo, where the Gnassingbé family has been in power for over 50 years, there will be no future presidential elections after Togolese deputies approved a new constitution between March 25 and 2 ...
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  11 April 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Generous participation of Chinese Catholic communities in the 2024 "National Collection" to support relief initiatives in emergency situations Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - As in the past eight years, this year, at the end of the Lenten season many Chinese Catholics took part in the National Collection Day, an initiative promoted by Jinde Charites, the organiz ...
• 11 April 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - Scholarships for disadvantaged students awarded to children of the elite: "This must stop" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "When you sit on the money for the poor, they will cry and God will hear them", warns John Bonaventure Kwofie, archbishop of Accra, commenting on the misappropriation of funds for scholarships int ...
• 10 April 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - The face of the Japanese Catholic Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the ad limina visit of the Bishops of Japan, Fides publishes some figures and information about the Catholic Church in Japan. The Catholic Church in Japan today has 419 ...
• 10 April 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigeria questions the role of the military after the massacre of 17 soldiers in a village in Delta State Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - What role does the military play in the life of the country? This is the question being asked in Nigeria after the massacre carried out on March 14th of 17 soldiers, including 4 officers, by the y ...
• 9 April 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Cardinal Raï, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites calls for calm after the murder of a member of the Lebanese Forces Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Condemnation for the barbaric murder and a strong appeal for "calm and moderation in this delicate and tense political, security and social situation". This is what the Maronite patriarch, Cardin ...
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  9 April 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - 470 baptisms in Shanghai, consecration of a new church in Wenling: an Easter full of fruits of faith Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 470 baptisms were celebrated in the diocese of Shanghai during the Easter Vigil. In the other Catholic dioceses of China, a precious flourishing of the gift of faith was also recorde ...
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  9 April 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - Among the "treasures of faith", the experience of Blessed Angelo Orsucci, missionary in Japan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Among the "treasures of faith" presented by the traveling exhibition "Thesaurum fidei: Missionary martyrs and hidden Christians in Japan. Three hundred years of heroic fidelity to Christ", ...
• 9 April 2024
  AFRICA/NIGER - Nine months after the coup: an analysis by Mauro Armanino Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Nine months have passed from the end of July last year to April this year, the period of pregnancy. The military coup was relatively unexpected and was particularly surprisi ...
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  9 April 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Father Ibrahim Faltas: War also darkens the future of Christians in the Land of Jesus Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - If you want to see Hell - said the Syrian Bishop Jacques Mourad at the beginning of the last war in Gaza - today you have to go to the Holy Land, where the massacres of innocents have turned i ...
• 8 April 2024
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - The President declares a national emergency on drug abuse; Caritas had raised the alarm some time ago Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "It is my solemn duty as President... to declare a national emergency on drug abuse". Thus the President of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio addressed the population to announce the creation of an ...
• 8 April 2024
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The feast at the end of Ramadan lived "in the authentic spirit of Easter, to celebrate a dawn of peace and fraternity" Miri (Agenzia Fides) - In Miri, a Malaysian city in the province of Sarawak (in Malaysian Borneo), less than 100 meters away are the "Masjid An Naim" mosque and the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd. There is mutual h ...
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  8 April 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - 'Money, money, money'. The reasons for conflicts and the arms race according to missionary Archbishop, Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi by Victor Gaetan* Archbishop Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi, age 65, holds a startling number of key positions, yet he’s calm as a church usher. President of Caritas Internationalis, Secretary General of the Federation ...
• 6 April 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Goa and Damão Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Simiao Purificaçao Fernandes of the clergy of Goa and Damão, India, until now director of the Saint Pius X Pastoral Institute, as auxiliary bish ...
• 6 April 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic Church calls for protection of the rights of indigenous peoples on the island of Boracay Boracay (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops and movements call on the State Human Rights Commission of the Philippines to protect the indigenous Ati communities on the island of Boracay, a tourist paradise in the Phil ...