News Analysis

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  9 January 2026
  Leo XIV, Saint Augustine, and the two Cities by Gianni Valente Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – In his traditional New Year's address to the members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See, Pope Leo XIV today observed the current state of the world t ...
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  7 January 2026
  Lessons from 1989. When a Nuncio Faced Off a US Invasion in Panama by Victor Gaetan* Caracas/Panama (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. military operation in Venezuela last week targeting President Nicolás Maduro Moros reminds us of a similar American maneuver 36 years ago, which put a dram ...
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  30 December 2025
  Archbishop Nwachukwu: Free Nigeria from the "smokescreen" of widespread violence by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In 2025, Nigeria was the country with the highest number (5) of Catholic missionaries and pastoral workers killed. It is also the same country where the Catholic community has ...
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  27 November 2025
  Turkey and Lebanon. Leo XIV's journey and prayer amidst the wounds of the Church and the world by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On his first apostolic journey as Successor of Peter, which began today with a flight from Rome to Ankara, Pope Leo XIV is venturing into a tangle of conflicts, the shedding ...
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  17 November 2025
  Artificial Intelligence and the Mission of the Church. An analytical contribution by Marie Symington Roma (Agenzia Fides ) - On Monday September 29 2025, the Dicastery for Communication announced the theme chosen by the Holy Father Leo XIV for the 60th World Communications Day: Preserving human voi ...
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  6 November 2025
  VATICAN - John Henry Newman and the Church Mission by Marie Symington Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Saint John Henry Newman has recently been proclaimed a Doctor of the Church and subsequently been named the Patron Saint of the Pontifical Urbaniana University, part of the Di ...
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  30 September 2025
  Dis-Order of the World - Global Order and the "twilight" in which "monsters emerge" by Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu, OFM Conv.* Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - In his "Prison Notebooks," the Italian politician and writer Antonio Gramsci said in the 1930s: "The old world is dying, the new world struggl ...
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  14 September 2025
  The New Martyrs and the “Baptism in Blood” by Marie Symington Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In Rome, on the day of the celebration of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls hosts the ecumenical commemoration of Christian martyr ...
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  16 August 2025
  The geopolitical implications of the Joint Declaration between Armenia and Azerbaijan by Cosimo Graziani Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "I congratulate Armenia and Azerbaijan, who have succeeded in signing the Joint Declaration of Peace." With these words, Pope Leo XIV addressed the faithful gathered in ...
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  6 August 2025
  Coups, Chaos and Haiti’s Tragic Collapse By Victor Gaetan Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - “Hell in Haiti” declares a headline in the British Daily Mail last week. It recounts how dead bodies litter streets, typically murdered by gangs controlling over 9 ...
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  30 July 2025
  Wars that annihilate peoples and the “Tranquillitas Ordinis” of Saint Augustine by Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu OFMConv* Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - More than a month has passed since the ceasefire came into effect, and we are still far from a peace agreement. Everything suggests that, instead ...
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  16 July 2025
  The BRICS + summit in Brazil raises the banner of multilateralism by Cosimo Graziani Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - On July 6 and 7, the annual summit of the so-called BRICS countries took place in Rio de Janeiro. This forum of states was founded in 2009 and has grown in recent y ...
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  21 April 2025
  Thank you forever, Pope Francis by Gianni Valente Rome ( Fides Agency) - “Remember your leaders, who preached the word of God to you, and as you reflect on the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith."This passage from the Letter to the Hebrew ...
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  12 April 2025
  Cardinal Parolin: A Christian perspective on the encounter between the Gospel and China by Cardinal Pietro Parolin* Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - We publish Cardinal Pietro Parolin's preface to the book by the missionary and priest Antonio Sergianni, "The journey of the Gospel in China. In the footsteps ...
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  13 March 2025
  The fragile Pope and the Mystery of Peter   by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis is spending the 12th anniversary of his election as Successor of Peter and Bishop of Rome in a room at the Gemelli Hospital. Doctors announced his prognosis just a ...