News

• 24 May 2021
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Resignation and appointment of the Bishop of Daru-Kiunga Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 23, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Daru-Kiunga (Papua New Guinea), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Gilles Côté, S.M.M. On the same da ...
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  22 May 2021
  AMERICA - To all the Bishops' Conferences the task of assuming and promoting Renewal and Restructuring Project of CELAM Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In these days "we have carried out, in a spirit of communion and fraternity, a contemplative gaze at the Latin American and Caribbean reality, with a universal and hopeful vision, and in the pers ...
• 22 May 2021
  AFRICA /D.R.CONGO - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Lubumbashi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as metropolitan archbishop of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bishop Fulgence Muteba Mugalu, transferring him from the diocese of Kilwa-Kasenga. ...
• 22 May 2021
  ASIA/KOREA - Appointment of auxiliary of Busan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Busan, Korea, the Reverend Pius Sin Hozol, of the clergy of the same diocese, until now president of the Catholic Univers ...
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  22 May 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Scalabrinians inaugurate an educational center for refugees and migrants in Tijuana Tijuana (Agenzia Fides) - "In this new space, many families and adults will be able to realize their goals, dreams and life plans. It will be a safe place, in which we will continue a fight that began more than 130 years ...
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  22 May 2021
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Recession, inflation, poverty: population exhausted Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "Anger and frustration, as well as poverty, circulate in Sudanese society. The fear is that in this impasse a strong man will break through, as so many times in the history of the country", a m ...
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  22 May 2021
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - It is not necessary to change the Constitution to define the country as Christian: the Bishops on the proposal of possible amendments Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not consider it appropriate to make changes to the Constitution to expressly say that Papua New Guinea is a 'Christian nation'". The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Papua New ...
• 22 May 2021
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Erection of the national "Holy Family" major Seminary and appointment of the Rector Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 16, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, erected the national "Holy Family" major Seminary in the district of Mwe ...
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  21 May 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - New meeting between government and protesters, as Covid 19 increases Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday for the third time, the representatives of the Colombian government met with those of the National Strike Committee (CNP), to begin negotiations (see Fides, 18/5/2021). "We want guarant ...
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  21 May 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Fear and concern for the vaccination campaign that has not yet started: increase in Covid cases Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - The news that comes from the Camillian Social Center in Prachinburi is not good (see Agenzia Fides May 7, 2021). Father Ferdinando Pistore, a fidei donum priest who works in Chiang Mai, write ...
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  21 May 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest killed and another kidnapped in northern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A priest killed and another kidnapped. This is the toll of the assault perpertrated by unidentified armed men against the parish of St. Vincent Ferrer in Malunfashi, in the State of Katsina, in no ...
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  21 May 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Laudato Sì Week: symbolic embrace of solidarity with the population mobilized for open pit mining projects Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the activities promoted for the "Laudato Sì Week", the National Commission for Justice and Peace is promoting for today, May 21, at 6 pm, a symbolic embrace to thousands of peop ...
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  21 May 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops: sanctions against Damascus "to be removed", Palestinians victims of "brutal aggression". And they thank the Pope Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The economic sanctions of Western countries against Assad's Syria, culminating in the so-called "Caesar Act" issued by the US Administration led by Donald Trump, are unjust and must be removed, a ...
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  21 May 2021
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh: a new live Catholic channel on the web to offer spiritual support to the faithful Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "The Lord also writes straight on the crooked lines of life": with this spirit the Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh, Mgr. Olivier Schmitthauesler, speaks to Fides about the work of the Catholic ...
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  20 May 2021
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - A life given for the mission: young people remember the martyrdom of Sister Irene McCormack Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Her example of a life devoted to the Gospel continues to inspire young people today: 30 years after the martyrdom of Sister Irene McCormack, missionary of the Sisters of Saint Joseph executed in ...