News

• 3 July 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Bishop of Asansol Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 3, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Elias Frank, of the clergy of the diocese of Asansol, India, until now professor of canon law at the Pontifical Urbania University of Rome ...
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  3 July 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The arrests of missionaries, nuns, priests, lay people accused of supporting communist armed groups continue Isulan (Agenzia Fides) - The practice of "red tagging", or labeling a person as 'communist' or 'supporter of communist groups or armed terrorists', continues to affect religious and missionaries and their collaborators ...
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  3 July 2023
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Armed attack against two pastoral workers: reflection of violations of civil society Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Every act of violence in our territories is a call for more commitment on our part. We must not postpone the goal of a reconciled and peaceful Colombia", said Omar Alberto Sánchez Cubillos, Arc ...
• 1 July 2023
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Appointment of the Bishop of Leena, Martín Lasarte Topolansky Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Martín Lasarte Topolansky, S.D.B., until now provincial superior of the Salesian Society of Saint John Bosco (Salesians) in Angola. Msgr. Martí ...
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  1 July 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Farewell to Ren Yanli, appreciated and passionate scholar of Chinese Catholicism and China-Holy See relations Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Chinese Catholics are Catholics like everyone else. They have the same faith, they read the same Bible, they go freely to church for Mass, to pray and receive the sacraments. Like the others Ca ...
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  1 July 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Inner Mongolia, the new church of the Mercy of Jesus inaugurated thanks to the support and donations of the local Catholic community Bameng (Agenzia Fides) - The new church in the Diocese of Bameng (Inner Mongolia) dedicated to the Mercy of Jesus, was built with the generous support of volunteer work and donations from the local Catholic community. Th ...
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  1 July 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Archbishop Shaw on the growth of parishes and mission stations in Punjab by Paolo Affatato Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to live our Christianity in Pakistan here and now, without fear and without concern. With the Gospel as our guide, the Church as our mother, the poor and the needy as ...
• 30 June 2023
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Erection of the diocese of Guéckédou and appointment of first bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 29, the Holy Father erected the new diocese of Guéckédou, Guinea, with territory taken from the diocese of Kankan and N’Zérékoré, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan ar ...
• 30 June 2023
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Calapan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 26, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Moises Magpantay Cuevas, until now titular bishop of Maraguia and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Zamboanga, as vicar apostolic of Calapan, Phil ...
• 30 June 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Itanagar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 29, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Itanagar, India, presented by Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil. The Holy Father has appointed ...
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  30 June 2023
  ASIA/MYANMAR - A new Bishop in the Kayah state, a war zone: a Pastor who accompanies the people's Way of the Cross Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Loikaw, capital of Kayah state, in the eastern part of Myanmar, welcomed its new Bishop, ordained yesterday on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, with a celebration imbued with fa ...
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  29 June 2023
  EUROPE/RUSSIA: Cardinal Zuppi in the Catholic Cathedral of Moscow: I have entrusted the mission of peace to Our Lady of Vladimir Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - "Unity is not given by power, but by mutual service; not by blood ties, but by the bond of God made man, who makes us His, His children, part of His family", said Cardinal Matteo Zuppi in his hom ...
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  29 June 2023
  VATICAN - Pope Francis, on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul: the Church must proclaim the Gospel "like oxygen to breathe" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Even today it is necessary for the Church to "put preaching at the centre". And always be a Church "that cannot live without sharing with others the embrace of God’s love", and needs to proclaim ...
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  28 June 2023
  VATICAN - "The protagonist of History is the beggar". Pope Francis re-proposes the missionary adventure of Saint Mary MacKillop Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The protagonist of History is the beggar", said Pope Francis today, taking up the incipit of a beautiful sentence pronounced by Don Luigi Giussani on May 30, 1998 in St. Peter's Square, in a meeti ...
• 28 June 2023
  AFRICA - Not only Wagner: Private Military Companies (PMC) and the future of the monopoly of force Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Private Military Companies (PMC), like the Russian Wagner, are the most modern and professional form of mercenary formations used since ancient times by States to reinforce their military units or ...