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  7 February 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - A Christian look at the "Chinese New Year". The Lenten message of Bishop Joseph Gan Guangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - This year again, as happens from time to time, the beginning of Lent coincides with the festive days of the Chinese New Year. A coincidence linked to the fact that the two events are fixed in ...
• 6 February 2024
  AMERICA/CHILE - Archbishop of Santiago on forest fires: “It is a disaster” Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The number of people who died in the devastating fire in the coastal area of Valparaíso last Friday, February 2, continues to rise: "The situation is really tragic, it is a catastrophe", said ...
• 6 February 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Parliamentary elections marked by economic crisis and political tensions Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Next February 8, the federal parliament, the so-called National Assembly, and the legislative assemblies of four provinces will be elected in Pakistan. The voters include 128 million eligible ...
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  6 February 2024
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle at the Conference for the ongoing formation of priests: "In order not to become ‘wolves’ " Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In order not to become ‘wolves’, pastors "must keep watch over themselves or must take care of themselves and their faith. This is ongoing formation". With these words, echoing the Apos ...
• 6 February 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Cardinal Czerny: "We are close to the people of South Sudan" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Free and credible elections were promised by South Sudanese President Salva Kiir to Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development, on the occasion ...
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  6 February 2024
  EUROPE/GERMANY - Archbishop Nappa during the visit to Missio Aachen: "It feels good to do good" Aachen (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Germany and Europe should see international church solidarity even more strongly as a personal, meaningful mission. Archbishop Emilio Nappa, President of the Pontifical Mission Soci ...
• 5 February 2024
  VATICAN - Appointment of under-secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for Fundamental Questions regarding Evangelization in the World Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Msgr. Graziano Borgonovo, until now official of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, as under-secretary for the Dicastery for Evangelizati ...
• 5 February 2024
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Archbishop of Dakar: “Like many of our fellow citizens, I am disturbed by what is happening” Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Like many of our fellow citizens I am disturbed by what is happening", Archbishop Benjamin Ndiaye, Archbishop of Dakar, the capital of Senegal, told the press after President Macky Sall announced ...
• 5 February 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Signature campaign to change the constitution: Bishops call for comprehensive public debate Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A confrontation, a reflection, a deeper and broader discernment on the proposals for revising the Constitutional Charter, in order to prevent the country from embarking on a dangerous slope towar ...
• 5 February 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Two religious kidnapped in Plateau State: in Nigeria questions are being asked about the complicity in the banking sector for the payment of ransoms Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two Claretian missionaries (Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) were kidnapped by armed men on the night of February 1 in Plateau state, central Nigeria: Father Ken Kanwa C.M.F., parish ...
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  4 February 2024
  The Abu Dhabi prophecy, 5 years later by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On February 4, 2019, when the Bishop of Rome and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar signed the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together in Abu Dhabi, their une ...
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  4 February 2024
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - Five years of Abu Dhabi Document: Bishop Martinelli underlines the prophetic significance Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - In this "dramatic moment in the history of humanity, marked by so many conflicts", the Document on Human Fraternity signed in Abu Dhabi by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar Ahmed al ...
• 3 February 2024
  AFRICA - Beginning of a new era: Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger leave the Economic Community of West African States Rome (Agenzia Fides) - With the announcement last January 28 of the withdrawal of the military regimes of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the integration process ...
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  3 February 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - On the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Archdiocese of Karachi: laying the foundation stone for a new church Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In the area of Safoora Goth, a district in the eastern part of the metropolis of Karachi, capital of the Sindh province, in southern Pakistan, the number of Catholics has increased and the famil ...
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  3 February 2024
  EUROPE/RUSSIA - Caritas St. Petersburg: A “small bridge” to escape drug and alcohol addiction By Chiara Dommarco St. Petersburg (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas St. Petersburg, led by Dr. Natalia Anatol'evna Pewtsova, was founded in 1993 and has been offering concrete help to those in need and training programs for pro ...