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• 2 December 2024
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Arbitrary arrests and disappearances of opposition figures are worrying Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - Arbitrary arrests, political opponents who disappear without a trace or are brutally murdered by mysterious assassins. Worrying incidents are occurring in Tanzania. The case of Deusdedith ...
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  1 December 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Francis: "If habituation and indifference to the horrors of war prevail, the whole, entire human family is defeated" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "If habituation and indifference to the horrors of war prevail, the whole, entire human family is defeated. The whole human family is defeated!", said Pope Francis at the end of Sunday's An ...
• 30 November 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Bombay Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop John Rodrigues as coadjutor archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of Bombay, India, transferring him from the diocese of Poona. Archbishop-elect J ...
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  30 November 2024
  ASIA/SYRIA- Churches in the rebel-held city of Aleppo remain open for services: “City in limbo” Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "After three days of attacks, the so-called opposition militias have taken over the city. Now everything is quiet. The city is in limbo. And nobody tells us anything," said the Maronite Archbisho ...
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  30 November 2024
  ASIA/JAPAN - The Pope remembers the hidden Christians: “They have passed on the precious treasure of the faith as a legacy from generation to generation” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “The Japanese people are a noble people”, and their history is also marked by the “living testimony to the fidelity of so many Japanese Christians who passed on the precious treasur ...
• 30 November 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Auxiliary Bishop of Nairobi: "Let's work together to end gender-based violence and femicide in our society" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent months, Kenya has witnessed a troubling pattern of women losing their lives in gruesome murders and under unclear circumstances," said Simon Peter Kamomoe, one of the two auxiliary bi ...
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  30 November 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholic communities study and spread the Papal Bull “Spes non confundit” in preparation for the Jubilee Sanyuan (Agenzia Fides) – Sharing and spreading the message of faith, hope and charity condensed by the Pope in the Bull “Spes non confundit” to begin together the synodal journey towards the Jubilee. With this spi ...
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  30 November 2024
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Jubilee Year in the company of Mary and the Cambodian martyrs Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Cambodia is preparing for the Jubilee Year 2025, which will be accompanied in particular by the Virgin Mary in Cambodian communities. As part of the Holy Year celebrati ...
• 29 November 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - Chad unexpectedly ends military cooperation agreements with France N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "A move yet to be interpreted that in any case has taken everyone by surprise" local sources in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, told Fides after the announcement that the local government inte ...
• 29 November 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Record number of landmine victims: children and civilians among the most affected Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar has become the country with the highest mortality rate in the world from landmines and unexploded ordnance, with more than 1,000 victims recorded in 2023 alone. According to studies carri ...
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  29 November 2024
  ASIA/SYRIA - The humanitarian crisis in Aleppo worsens, once again under siege by jihadists Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The city of Aleppo is facing a new and fierce offensive that is plunging its population into an alarming humanitarian crisis. A jihadist attack of rare intensity, which began in recent days, h ...
• 28 November 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The young customs officer, killed for opposing corrupt officials who wanted to import a shipment of bad rice, will be beatified Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The young Congolese civil servant assassinated for opposing corruption will be beatified. Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a young civil servant from the Democratic Republic of Congo, had refus ...
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  28 November 2024
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Rebuilding the lives of refugees”: the theme of the Salesian mission in Palabek Palabek (Agencia Fides) – Teenage pregnancies account for almost a fifth of all births that occur each year in Uganda and 32,000 cases monthly. To help these young Ugandans, the Salesian missionaries have launched ...
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  28 November 2024
  ASIA/OMAN - Major Archbishop Thattil visits Syro-Malabar communities in the Arabian Peninsula Muscat (Agenzia Fides) – After completing his visit to the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia, the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, Raphael Thattil, who took up his post at the beginning of this year, h ...
• 28 November 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Protests suspended: situation in Islamabad remains tense Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "Calm seems to have returned, the protests of Imran Khan's supporters have been suspended, but fear and tension are still felt among the people of Islamabad. It is like a fire smoldering under ...