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29 May 2023
ASIA/INDONESIA - Tense situation in Papua: Catholics are trying to resolve the conflict
Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) - "The conflict in the Indonesian Papua region is destined to increase in intensity, due to the growing deployment of members of the Indonesian security forces, after the case of the kidnapping o ...
29 May 2023
ASIA/TURKEY - Erdogan remains in power. Bishop Bizzeti: the inadequacy of certain Western analyzes emerges
Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The final results of the elections in Turkey, with the victory of the incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also highlight "the inadequacy of Western media tools in presenting the Turkish sit ...
29 May 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Precarious security situation: Another Catholic priest kidnapped in Imo State
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A week after the kidnapping of Father Kingsley Maduka and his subsequent release (see Fides, 22/5/2023), the kidnapping of another Catholic priest in Imo State (south-eastern Nigeria) is causing c ...
27 May 2023
AFRICA/GUINEA - Bishop Balla: "Christian and Muslim religious representatives are involved in the discussion about the country's growth"
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Between Mali, Sierra Leone and the Atlantic Ocean lies Guinea with its capital city of Conakry, the northern part of the country bordering equally on one corner of Guinea Bissau and one of Seneg ...
27 May 2023
ASIA/INDIA - Women entrepreneurs in rural areas, thanks to the Archdiocese of Calcutta
Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) – To restore dignity to women in society, especially in rural areas; to promote their entrepreneurial capacities and develop their skills: it is with this objective that the organization "Seva ...
27 May 2023
VATICAN - Communicating joy and "speaking from the heart": multimedia course "Communication is mission" has ended
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Communicating joy and "speaking from the heart", as Pope Francis says in his message for the Day of Social Communications 2023; to serve the Lord and the local churches in the work of evang ...
27 May 2023
EUROPE/ITALY - Don Milani's mission
by Gianni Valente
On May 27, 1923, exactly one hundred years ago, Don Lorenzo Milani was born in Florence. The anniversary rekindles the ever-conflicting attention around the inimitable figure of the Italian priest. T ...
26 May 2023
ASIA/MONGOLIA - Premature death of a Korean fidei donum priest, an example of missionary passion, humility and poverty
Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - There are missionaries who leave an indelible mark both in the community where they carried out their apostolic service and in the community of origin, which "brought them to faith" and acco ...
26 May 2023
AFRICA/KENYA - "The Shakahola massacre is a well organized, well planned and perfectly executed crime" says Interior Minister
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - There are 241 bodies found so far of followers of a Kenyan sect, buried in mass graves in the Shakahola forest, in eastern Kenya, on a ranch in Kilifi county, near the city of Malindi (see Fides ...
26 May 2023
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Another sacrilegious act against sacred places: already 90 since the beginning of 2023
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "They can desecrate our temples, destroy our images, but our faith always remains in Jesus Christ who created heaven and earth. Long live the Sacramental Jesus". This is a new sacrilegious act r ...
26 May 2023
EUROPE/ROMANIA - Three days of formation and missionary animation to celebrate the 180th anniversary of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood
Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - Three days to celebrate the National Day of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood, in the broader context of the 180th anniversary of the foundation of the Society by Msgr. Charles de ...
26 May 2023
AFRICA - 'Women Beyond Borders': to give voice to women working in the existential peripheries around the world
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Comboni Sisters have launched “Comboni Sisters – Women Beyond Borders,” a new digital media aimed at sharing the stories of missionary women working in existential peripheries around the ...
25 May 2023
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Prayer and symposium for reconciliation and unity on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community in South Korea is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the war that devastated the peninsula from 1950 to 1953. To mark the occasion, the Korean Church has annou ...
25 May 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The kidnapping industry" in Nigeria spares no one
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – While Father Kingsley Maduka, the parish priest of the Catholic parish of Christ the King, Ezinnachi-Ugwaku, Okigwe L.G.A., in the State of Imo, in south-eastern Nigeria, is finding his freedom, ...
25 May 2023
AMERICA - Week of prayer: "anointed by the same Spirit, let us seek to be a reflection of Trinitarian love, love in unity, love in diversity"
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - In many Latin American Catholic communities the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity" takes place on the days before or after Pentecost. The churches in Brazil celebrate it during the week of Ma ...
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