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• 9 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Gangster boss manages to escape from prison: President declares a state of emergency Quito (Agenzia Fides) - In Ecuador a state of emergency has been declared due to the escape of the country's "number 1 criminal". The measure was taken yesterday, January 8, by President Daniel Noboa after José Adolfo M ...
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  9 January 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Make me an instrument of your peace”: Catholics in the North and South recite the prayer for reconciliation together Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - As the world looks with concern at the political and military tensions between North and South Korea that have increased in recent days, the Catholic faithful gathered today in Seoul and Pyongyang ...
• 9 January 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The naval agreement with Somaliland raises new tensions in the Horn of Africa Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions are increasing in the Horn of Africa in connection with the agreement between Somaliland and Ethiopia on access to the Red Sea (see Fides 3/1/2024) and the internal situation in Eth ...
• 9 January 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Orlu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 5, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Thomas Ifeanyichukwu Obiatuegwu, of the clergy of Orlu, Nigeria, until now parish priest of Saint Thomas in Umuna, as auxiliary bishop o ...
• 9 January 2024
  AFRICA/SÃO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPE - Appointment of bishop of São Tomé and Principe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend João de Ceita Nazaré, of the clergy of São Tomé and Principe, until now delegate of the apostolic administrator and parish priest of the Cathe ...
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  9 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - New churches to bear witness to Christ in the new Churches in neighborhoods and Suburbs of Chinese metropolises Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – The new church dedicated to St. John, just inaugurated in Beijing, well represents the concern with which Chinese Catholic communities work to bear witness to Jesus even in the heart of the ne ...
• 8 January 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Awami League wins elections; a Rohingya integration plan is urgently needed Chittagong (Agenzia Fides) - "For about six years, Bangladesh has welcomed more than a million Rohingyas. These displaced people found refuge in the camps of Cox's Bazar but, six years after the exodus, no lasting soluti ...
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  8 January 2024
  ASIA/QATAR - A sign of hope and unity for the Catholic community celebrated in the first Christian place of worship in the Country Doha (Agenzia Fides) - "The solemn Mass celebrated by the Catholic Church in Qatar on January 1, 2024 is intended to be a sign of hope and unity for the Catholic community, bringing together people of different ethnic gr ...
• 8 January 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Owando Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 6, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Gélase Armel Kema, until now bishop of the diocese of Ouesso and apostolic administrator Sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the dioces ...
• 8 January 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Pointe-Noire Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 6, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Pointe-Noire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, presented by Archbishop Miguel Ángel Ola ...
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  8 January 2024
  VATICAN -The Pope: “The ‘third world war in pieces’ is increasingly turning into a real global conflict” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The "third world war in pieces" is turning into a "real global conflict", warns Pope Francis in his address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See. Referring to his oft-stated c ...
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  8 January 2024
  Diplomacy and mission of the Church: This is why the Pope speaks to the Ambassadors by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The speech that the Bishop of Rome addresses every year to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See is not just an expression of the current Pope's "personal opinion" o ...
• 5 January 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - "The secular politics of the Awami League is the key to popular consensus", notes a priest on the eve of the vote Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her party, the Awami League, seem to enjoy broad popular support." This is what Father Redon Robert Hadima, a Bangladeshi priest, involved in the field of ...
• 5 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Aurangabad Vatican City (Agenzi Fides) - The Holy Father appointed the Reverend Bernard Lancy Pinto, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Bombay, until now parish priest of Saint Michael and dean of the deanery of North Mumbai in In ...
• 5 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Jhabua Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 30, 2023, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Peter Rumal Kharadi, of the clergy of the diocese of Jhabua, India, until now diocesan administrator, as bishop of the same dioc ...