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  13 November 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Instability and violence: "Missionaries literally risk their lives every day" Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Continuing to work, to keep the hospital in Port-au-Prince open and to continue with all the activities we have in Haiti is becoming more and more difficult and the Missionaries literall ...
• 13 November 2024
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Appointment of the New Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - On October 25, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for the first Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), appointed Rev. Fr. ...
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  13 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGER - Fourteen unarmed widows challenge armed groups and win by Mauro Armanino Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Their husbands and even some of their children have been killed by armed groups who are terrorizing and emptying the villages in the Three Borders area, which includes Burki ...
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  12 November 2024
  ASIA/KUWAIT - Strengthening ties between the Syro-Malabar Church and the Latin Church in the Arabian Peninsula Kuwait City (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia welcomes the visit of the Head of the Syro-Malabar Church, Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil, who arrived in Kuwait on November 8, where he was rec ...
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  12 November 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Post-election protests continue and the number of dead rises Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The number of victims of clashes between demonstrators and police in Mozambique has risen to 30 since protests broke out three weeks ago over alleged fraud in the October 9 elections (see Fides, ...
• 12 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Nigerian priest Emmanuel Azubuike is free Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian priest Emmanuel Azubuike, kidnapped on November 5 (see Fides, 6/11/2024), is free. According to the Diocese of Okigwe, Father Azubuike was "released in the early hours of November 11 ...
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  12 November 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Italian President Mattarella pays homage to the missionaries buried near Lake Xizi together with Bishop Yang Hangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - Joseph Yang Yongqiang, Bishop of Hangzhou, a few days after his return from Rome, where he had participated in the last Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, accompanied the Italia ...
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  12 November 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Matteo Ricci's legacy in China is the focus of a study day at the Gregorian University Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Matteo Ricci. A legacy of friendship, dialogue and peace" is the title of the International Study Day that will be held on Friday 15 November at the Pontifical Gregorian University. The event will ...
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  11 November 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: "Mission is not only the goal of the ecumenical journey, it is also its means" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission is not only the goal of the ecumenical journey, it is also its means" said Pope Francis during the audience for the members of the Holy Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church, who refe ...
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  11 November 2024
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Arson attack on the church in Mapeera Kigungu, built on the spot where the first evangelizing missionaries of the country landed Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The historic Catholic church of Mapeera Kigungu has suffered damage as a result of an arson attack. The attack dates back to November 7, when some unknown persons entered the church at 10 p.m. a ...
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  11 November 2024
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Cardinal Goh after the attack on a priest during a mass: “We cannot allow evil to paralyze the proclamation of the Gospel” Singapore (Agenzia Fides) – “This incident has not only seriously injured a priest in a place of worship, but has also spread fear in the community,” said Cardinal William Goh, Archbishop of Singapore, in a pastora ...
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  11 November 2024
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The beauty of the mission is like the colored tiles of a mosaic that together form a masterpiece” Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – “The first blue tile is the rain that a few days ago soaked the dusty streets of Cairo for about five minutes. It practically never rains here; since I arrived three months ago, not a drop ha ...
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  11 November 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - In November, the Catholic community of Wenzhou remembers the deceased missionary sisters Wenzhou (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, the Catholic community of Wenzhou, especially young Catholics, gathered in front of the Catholic Sisters Cemetery in Jingshan Park to remember all the nuns who left their homeland ...
• 11 November 2024
  ASIA/THAILAND - Appointment of bishop of Chanthaburi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Philip Adisak Phorn-Ngam, of the clergy of Chanthaburi, Thailand, until now diocesan administrator of the same diocese and parish priest of The Im ...
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  11 November 2024
  MIDDLE EAST/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï congratulates on the election of Donald Trump: "May the election lead to a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah" Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the election of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America, the Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï, expressed in the homily of the Sunday Mass ...