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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 ...
• 2 February 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Day of Consecrated Life: six new nuns among the “Shanti Rani Sisters Dinajpur (Agenzia Fides) - The experience of consecrated life, a life entirely given to God, close to Him in prayer and charity, continues to attract young women in Bangladesh. This is what the Catechist Sisters of the ...
• 2 February 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - President of the Bishop's Conference: "Everyone must respect the rule of law" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We have been advising Kenyans to respect the law. Even before the elections in 2022 we called on Kenyans to remain peaceful and where they were not happy with the outcome of the election, they ...
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  2 February 2024
  VATICAN - Pope's message for World Mission Day 2024. The mission is to invite everyone to the Lord's banquet. By Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Evangelization" is "a tireless going out towards all humanity" to invite everyone "to the Lord’s banquet". This celebration is that of the "happiness of his Kingdom", the c ...