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  23 May 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Launch of an "online" identity verification system for Muslim, Catholic and Protestant religious Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - From today, May 23, 2023, the "online" verification system for the identity of Muslim, Catholic and Protestant religious has also been launched. The same system, as Agenzia Fides reports (see Fi ...
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  23 May 2023
  VATICAN - Catechists, "irreplaceable" missionaries. "Antiquum ministerium" and the apostolic work of the catechist in the orientations of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples by Stefano Lodigiani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (today Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for the First Evangelization and New Particular Churches) has always ...
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  22 May 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - Corruption, kidnappings, insecurity:"the situation is unsustainable. The Church urges better living conditions for all" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) – There is chaos in Haiti. Its capital, Port-au-Prince in particular, has long been held hostage by armed gangs, all involved in criminal activities ranging from extortion to drug traffic ...
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  22 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A Jubilee Year in Karachi to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Archdiocese Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Spirit has accompanied the life of Christians in the territory of Karachi, a city in southern Pakistan, for 75 years. It has been 75 years in which the seed of the Gospel has been plant ...
• 22 May 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The kidnapping of a priest of the diocese of Okigwe is just the latest in a long line Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - On May 19, Father Kingsley Maduka, parish priest of the Catholic parish of Christ the King, Ezinnachi-Ugwaku, Okigwe L.G.A., in Imo State, southeast Nigeria, was kidnapped. According to the chance ...
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  22 May 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Laudato Sì Week: "share skills and creativity" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - After the Mass celebrated yesterday in the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, the opening ceremony of "Laudato Sì Week" will take place today, May 22, at 10 am (local time), at the Dom Helder Câma ...
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  22 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - New ceasefire in the country, but the population is in desperate need of humanitarian aid Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The heavy air raids that have hit the city of Omdurman and the northern part of Khartoum, which are located on the other side of the Nile from Khartoum, have further accelerated the need for a ...
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  22 May 2023
  VATICAN - Among the new Venerables also the first Cameroonian "fidei donum" and a lay catechist from the Roman periphery Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, May 20, the Holy Father authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to publish some Decrees, including those concerning the recognition of the heroic virtues of the Camer ...
• 20 May 2023
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Blessed Martin Benedict, "true priest and true doctor" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "True priest and true doctor". This is how Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, wanted to highlight the salvific mission of Venerable Martin Benedict, duri ...
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  20 May 2023
  EUROPE/BELARUS - The new church of St. Francis of Assisi consecrated in Minsk Minsk (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the consecration of the new parish church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Minsk, capital of Belarus, ended today, Saturday May 20, at the end of the morning. The solemn liturgical ...
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  20 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two Christian teenagers in prison for alleged blasphemy, a Muslim religious killed Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christian teenagers from Lahore, Adil Baber, 18, and Simon Nadeem, 12, were arrested and charged with "blasphemy" under article 295-C of the Penal Code yesterday, May 19 , by order of the cou ...
• 20 May 2023
  AFRICA/CHAD - "Where do the weapons come from?". The unsettling questions of Catholic associations and movements on the recent massacres in southern Chad Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We demand an immediate end to the massacres and greater security for the populations of the whole country", says the Union of Catholic Lay Movements and Associations of Chad (Umalect, which b ...
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  20 May 2023
  AFRICA/TOGO - Catholics and Muslims together inaugurate the 'Msgr. Marion De Brésillac' medical and social center in the suburbs of Lomé Apessito (Agenzia Fides) - "A few days ago we inaugurated the Msgr. Marion De Brésillac Medical and Social Center in Apessito in the large suburb of Lomé. The Muslim village chief, the Iman, and the chief of the loca ...
• 19 May 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Called to bear witness to Christ in an increasingly complex society: interview with the President of the Episcopal Conference of Tanzania Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "We are grateful to God for this young Church with strong roots and growing" says in an interview with Agenzia Fides the Archbishop of Mbeya and President of the Episcopal Conference of Ta ...
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  19 May 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Joseph Shen Bin leads the pilgrimage to Our Lady of Sheshan, reciting the prayer written by Benedict XVI Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Catholics from the diocese of Shanghai took part in the pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians in Sheshan, led by Bishop Joseph Shen Bin. Under a torrential rain, ...