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• 12 November 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Nigerian priest Emmanuel Azubuike is free Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian priest Emmanuel Azubuike, kidnapped on November 5 (see Fides, 6/11/2024), is free. According to the Diocese of Okigwe, Father Azubuike was "released in the early hours of November 11 ...
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  12 November 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Italian President Mattarella pays homage to the missionaries buried near Lake Xizi together with Bishop Yang Hangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - Joseph Yang Yongqiang, Bishop of Hangzhou, a few days after his return from Rome, where he had participated in the last Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, accompanied the Italia ...
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  12 November 2024
  EUROPE/ITALY - Matteo Ricci's legacy in China is the focus of a study day at the Gregorian University Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Matteo Ricci. A legacy of friendship, dialogue and peace" is the title of the International Study Day that will be held on Friday 15 November at the Pontifical Gregorian University. The event will ...
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  11 November 2024
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: "Mission is not only the goal of the ecumenical journey, it is also its means" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Mission is not only the goal of the ecumenical journey, it is also its means" said Pope Francis during the audience for the members of the Holy Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church, who refe ...
• 11 November 2024
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Arson attack on the church in Mapeera Kigungu, built on the spot where the first evangelizing missionaries of the country landed Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The historic Catholic church of Mapeera Kigungu has suffered damage as a result of an arson attack. The attack dates back to November 7, when some unknown persons entered the church at 10 p.m. a ...
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  11 November 2024
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - Cardinal Goh after the attack on a priest during a mass: “We cannot allow evil to paralyze the proclamation of the Gospel” Singapore (Agenzia Fides) – “This incident has not only seriously injured a priest in a place of worship, but has also spread fear in the community,” said Cardinal William Goh, Archbishop of Singapore, in a pastora ...
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  11 November 2024
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “The beauty of the mission is like the colored tiles of a mosaic that together form a masterpiece” Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – “The first blue tile is the rain that a few days ago soaked the dusty streets of Cairo for about five minutes. It practically never rains here; since I arrived three months ago, not a drop ha ...
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  11 November 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - In November, the Catholic community of Wenzhou remembers the deceased missionary sisters Wenzhou (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, the Catholic community of Wenzhou, especially young Catholics, gathered in front of the Catholic Sisters Cemetery in Jingshan Park to remember all the nuns who left their homeland ...
• 11 November 2024
  ASIA/THAILAND - Appointment of bishop of Chanthaburi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Philip Adisak Phorn-Ngam, of the clergy of Chanthaburi, Thailand, until now diocesan administrator of the same diocese and parish priest of The Im ...
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  11 November 2024
  MIDDLE EAST/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï congratulates on the election of Donald Trump: "May the election lead to a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah" Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the election of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America, the Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï, expressed in the homily of the Sunday Mass ...
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  10 November 2024
  VATICAN/ANGELUS - The Pope: may Jesus help us to do good without “ostentation” Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With the help of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, we must learn to fight the temptation of hypocrisy in ourselves and “to do good, simply and without ostentation”. This is what Pope Francis s ...
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  9 November 2024
  VATICAN - Ecumenism and Saints: Pope Francis embraces Assyrian Patriarch Mar Awa and announces the inscription of Saint Isaac of Nineveh in the Roman Martyrology Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - An embrace under the eyes of the Risen Christ painted by Perugino and the announcement of the inscription in the Roman Martyrology of one of the most venerated Fathers of the Syro-oriental ...
• 9 November 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A partnership between the Korean and French communities for the beatification of missionary Bishop Bruguière Carcassonne (Agenzia Fides) - The Korean and French Catholic communities have joined forces for the beatification of Bishop Barthelemy Bruguière (1792-1835), member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP) and first ...
• 9 November 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Nellore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Anthony Das Pilli, until now professor of dogmatic theology and formator at Saint John’s Regional Seminary in Hyderabad. Msgr. Anthony Das Pill ...
• 9 November 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Vellore, Ambrose Pitchaimuthu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Ambrose Pitchaimuthu, of the clergy of Chingleput, until now national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in India, as bishop of the dioc ...