News Analysis

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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 ...
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  8 March 2025
  GREENLAND - Geopolitical interests and independence: Greenland before the election by Cosimo Graziani Nuuk (Agenzia Fides) - Although globalization has been the subject of much criticism recently, perhaps never before have local elections with fewer than sixty thousand voters made such headlines as ...
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  14 January 2025
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - Romania: Cultural Invasion, Vast Military Expenses, Democracy Cancelled by Victor Gaetan* “The innocent pay for war, the innocent…Let us think about this reality and say to each other: war is madness. And those who profit from war and the arms trade are thugs ...
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  20 December 2024
  In Rome, in the Holy Land and throughout the World. Vademecum to obtain Indulgences in the Jubilee Year 2025 by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) – In 2025, the Catholic Church will once again celebrate the Jubilee Year, a special time of remission and forgiveness, designed as an opportunity to intensely experience heali ...
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  14 December 2024
  Pope Francis in Ajaccio: The missionary soul of popular spirituality by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - There is a People of God gathered and beloved by Jesus, who continue to ask for his presence and his consolation in the tribulations of life, entrusting their expectations to ...
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  6 December 2024
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - "Church of Discretion": Interview with the Archbishop of Algiers and future Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco by Gianni Valente “I have not lost any of those you gave me,” this quote from the Gospel of John is the title of the last pastoral letter of the French Dominican Father Jean-Paul Vesco, who took office as Archbis ...
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  4 December 2024
  VATICAN - Wednesday Papal Audiences also in Chinese. The importance of a new gift
  by Gianni Valente Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “With great pleasure.” With these words, Pope Francis announced today the addition of Chinese among the languages in which ...
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  3 December 2024
  ASIA/IRAN - Franciscan, astronomer and, Cardinal quite by chance. Who is Dominique Joseph Mathieu, the first cardinal on Iranian soil? by Gianni Valente Pope Francis called him to head the old episcopal see of Ispahan, erected in 1629 after changing its name to the Archdiocese of Tehran – Ispahan of the Latins. And he decided to create him Cardina ...
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  19 November 2024
  Blessed are the Poor by Gianni Valente “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God,” says Jesus in the Gospel according to Luke. And those who follow Jesus on the path of world history notice and recognize that on this pa ...
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  4 November 2024
  ASIA/AZERBAIJAN - COP29 in Baku and major international meetings for economic and geopolitical issues by Cosimo Graziani Baku (Agenzia Fides) - From 11 to 22 November the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will take place, in its 29th edition. This year ...
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  15 October 2024
  Cardinal Marengo: mission is a mystery by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo IMC Rome (Agenzia Fides) - We are pleased to publish the Prolusion made today by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, Consolata missionary and Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, on the occasion of the ...