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24 May 2023
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Girls forced into early marriage: education is the key to the fight against this phenomenon
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - A dramatic figure has been published by UNICEF in recent weeks, indicating that approximately 51% of girls under 18 in Bangladesh are forced into early marriage. Due to a cultural practice, which ...
24 May 2023
ASIA/CHINA - Marian processions, Confirmations, Masses and Prayers: how Chinese Catholics experienced the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - 300 Catholics from the parish of Bailing, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians, in the diocese of Shantou (Chinese province of Guangdong), received today, Wednesday, May 24, ...
24 May 2023
VATICAN - Pope Francis believes witnessing in times of persecution "can bear much fruit for the faith". And invites to pray for the proclamation of the Gospel in China
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Witnessing to the Gospel in times of persecution "can bear much fruit for the faith". This is attested by dozens of witnesses and martyrs who confessed their faith in Christ in unfavorable circums ...
24 May 2023
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The search for peace is based on respect for life, human dignity and dialogue, not on violence
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The scandalous and cruel practice of recruitingand using minors for war, so frequent by various armed groups, indicates a high level of degradation of the armed conflict in the country. The Colo ...
24 May 2023
AFRICA/GHANA - Evangelization, peace and care for Creation: the challenges of the Church in Ghana according to the President of the Episcopal Conference
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Ghana has constantly grown in number, but this poses a challenge because we do not have enough evangelization agents", says Msgr. Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, Bishop of Sunyani and President ...
24 May 2023
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "A long journey in God's hands". The missionary adventure of Sister Adriana, 62 years at the service of the Korean people
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I arrived in Seoul and everything was destroyed. There were only the cathedral and the central station." Thus begins the story of Sister Adriana Bricchi, a missionary of the Daughters of Saint Mar ...
23 May 2023
AMERICA/MEXICO - Santa Ana Maya parish priest murdered with firearms
Huandacareo (Agenzia Fides) - The Office of the Attorney General of the State of Michoacán is investigating the murder of Father Javier García Villafaña, which occurred on Monday, May 22, 2023 in the municipality of H ...
23 May 2023
AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Bloody invisible hands fuel the conflict between Teke and Yaka"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The bloodthirsty invisible hands of Kinshasa" are at the origin of the conflict in the region of Kwamouth, in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This was affirmed by the Bisho ...
23 May 2023
AFRICA/SUDAN - There is no respite for the Sudanese people: even the latest ceasefire attempt has failed
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, May 23, 2023, the truce between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which came into effect last night, was broken (see Fides, 22/5/2023). Army heli ...
23 May 2023
ASIAVIETNAM - Pilgrims return to La Vang shrine to 'cry out' to Mary
Hue (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not miss the opportunity to make a pilgrimage with your family or your community. This is the time to pray as a family. Come and visit and pray to Our Lady of La Vang": the agencies that organiz ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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