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  7 November 2024
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Comboni community in the suburbs of Cali: between drugs, poverty and global warming Cali (Agenzia Fides) – “I think that, in an environment where everyone feels despised, it is good news to find a priest who is not ashamed to sit next to them and listen to them.” This is what Father Franco Nascimb ...
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  7 November 2024
  MIDDLE EAST/LEBANON - Maronite bishops call for an end to Israeli aggression Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Maronite bishops gathered in Bkerké for their monthly meeting chaired by Patriarch Béchara Raï. The meeting discussed several topics, including the humanitarian consequences of the ongoin ...
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  7 November 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Air pollution: religious communities launch initiatives to protect the "common home" Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Religious communities of all faiths want to actively contribute to combating the problem of air pollution and smog. With air pollution reaching extremely high levels (three times higher than the ...
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  6 November 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: “The Holy Spirit teaches us to pray” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - What is prayer? How should we pray? Pope Francis answers these questions during today's general audience in St. Peter's Square. First, however, Pope Francis paused in prayer before the ...
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  6 November 2024
  Cardinal Tagle: "Dilexit nos" makes the Christological sources of Pope Francis' social Encyclicals more explicit Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We report the interview given to Vatican media by the Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization on the Encyclical Dilexit nos By Alessandro Gisotti "It could be said that I am m ...
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  6 November 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The population of Indonesian Papua opposes the new "Transmigrasi" Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) - The indigenous population of West Papua rejects the plan of the new Indonesian government to resume the program of internal migration of people from Indonesian islands (mainly Java) to Papua. T ...
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  6 November 2024
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops raise alarm over instability in the country: "The situation is chaotic and worrying" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "As a Church, we will always defend the life of all, especially that of the weakest," say the Bolivian bishops in light of the current national crisis between former President Evo Morales, who w ...
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  6 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another priest kidnapped in Imo State, southern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Another priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria. He is Fr Emmanuel Azubuike. The priest, who works in the parish of St. Theresa, Obollo, Isiala Mbano, in the southern state of Imo, was kidnapped on ...
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  5 November 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Four soldiers sentenced to death for looting a parish Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Four Congolese soldiers were sentenced to death on October 31 by a military court in Butembo, North Kivu (east of the Democratic Republic of Congo). The four soldiers are accused of looting the ...
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  5 November 2024
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Post-election tensions rise: opposition leader denounces assassination attempt Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Post-election tensions have risen in Mozambique following the controversial victory of FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front), in power since 1975, in the elections of October 9 (see Fides, 24/10/ ...
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  5 November 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Search continues for victims of Lewotobi volcano eruption: a nun from the monastery of St. Gabriel among the dead Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Nikolin Padjo, Missionary Servant of the Holy Spirit (SSpS), is one of the victims of the serious eruption of the Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano that occurred without warning in the middle of ...
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  4 November 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Mobile Journalism" project of the Salesian missionaries continues with profit Lubumbashi (Agenzia Fides) - The "Mobile Journalism" project of the Salasians missionaries continues. In fact, there are numerous French-speaking Salesians in the Province of Central Africa who are active as missionaries ...
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  4 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference: "The explosion of crimes in Nigeria is related to the spread of drugs among young people" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – “Our young people are excessive consumers of hard drugs and do all kinds of unimaginable things. They arm themselves, steal and kidnap fellow citizens. How can we explain that today people are ...
• 4 November 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of metropolitan Archbishop of Madurai Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Madurai in India, presented by Archbishop Antony Pappusamy. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 4/11/ ...
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  4 November 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Indian edition of the encyclical 'Dilexit nos' presented, which inspires compassion New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Indian edition of Pope Francis' new encyclical "Dilexit Nos", published on October 24, aims to bring the message of Christ closer to Catholics in India and "enrich the spiritual journey of ...