News

• 31 January 2024
  AFRICA/RWANDA - The Bishops of the Great Lakes: "Saddened by the closure of the border between Burundi and Rwanda" Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent decision to close the land border between Burundi and Rwanda has deeply saddened us given the impact it has on the lives of vulnerable people". This is how the bishops who are members ...
• 30 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - “Catholic Connect”: New app from the Catholic Church in India is all about synodality Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "Creating networks, connecting to walk together, work together, evangelize together" is how Father Cyril Victor Joseph, Indian priest, coordinator of the Episcopal Commission for the Apostolat ...
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  30 January 2024
  AFRICA/NIGER - Kaaryan ma dumi: light to live, grow, love and prepare for the future Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "There are more and more, almost a hundred in Gaya and Dosso, with ever better prospects for their education and ophthalmological care," writes Father Rafael Casamayor, who works as a missionary i ...
• 30 January 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Massacres and kidnappings: Civil society alliance calls for a state of emergency to be declared Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The declaration of a state of emergency to combat growing insecurity in the country is the appeal launched on January 29 by a coalition of 48 civil society organizations to the President of Nige ...
• 29 January 2024
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Resignation of Auxiliary Bishop of Bukoba Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 27, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the diocese of Bukoba, Tanzania, presented by Bishop Method Kilaini, titular of Tamalluma. (EG) (Agen ...
• 29 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of first Bishop of Weifang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Monday 29 January 2024, the episcopal ordination of the Reverend Antonio Sun Wenjun took place. The Reverend Sun Wenjun was appointed by the Holy Father on 20 April 2023 as bishop of ...
• 29 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Suppression of the apostolic prefecture of Yiduxian and erection of the diocese of Weifang Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With the desire to promote the pastoral care of Lord’s flock, and to attend better to its spiritual welfare, on 20 April 2023, the Supreme Pontiff Francis decided to suppress in Continent ...
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  29 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Pope Francis erects the diocese of Weifang. New Bishop consecrated today Weifang (Agenzia Fides) - "Thank the Lord, everything went very well"! That was the first reaction of many Catholic faithful in the diocese of Weifang, the new diocese erected by Pope Francis. Today, Monday, January 29, ...
• 29 January 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Congolese, Rwandan and Burundian bishops united in calling for an end to the war in eastern DRC Goma (Agenzia Fides) - "When we speak of the violence of insecurity in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Rwanda and Burundi, we speak of 5 to 12 million victims," said the Bishop of Idiofa, President of th ...
• 29 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Balochistan: Foreign Ministers meeting to ease tensions between Iran and Pakistan Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, is visiting Pakistan to ease tensions following the air strikes that took place in January between Iran and Pakistan in the Balochistan borde ...
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  27 January 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A biography in Korean of the Servant of God Barthelemy Bruguière Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The biography of the "servant of God" Barthelemy Bruguière, published in France in 1938, is being translated into Korean for the benefit of the entire Catholic community, which shares the deep ex ...
• 26 January 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Preparing for WYD 2027 in “synodal” style Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A laboratory of ideas, a place of listening and exchange, an organizational "hub" to coordinate the different charisms and make World Youth Day (WYD) 2027 an authentic initiative of evangelization ...
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  26 January 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Kidnapped religious women released Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - The six sisters of the Congregation of Saint Anne who were kidnapped on January 19 are free (see Fides 22/1/2024). Together with them, the other two captives, the driver of the minibus in ...
• 26 January 2024
  AFRICA/MALI - Tensions between Algeria and Mali: Military junta wants to end agreement signed in Algiers in 2015 Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – There is a lot of tension between Mali and Algeria. The military junta, which took power in Bamako in 2020, released a communiqué yesterday, January 25, in which it stated that it "recognized ...
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  25 January 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Archbishop makes documentary about the “Desaparecidos” of Concepción Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The memory of the events surrounding the 1973 coup and an appeal to those who still have confidential information about the prisoners disappeared during the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) are at ...