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ASIA/ASIA

Growing religious extremism in Asia and Church response

AMERICA/BRAZIL

Bishops: "We cannot be silent when life is threatened, rights are not respected, justice is corrupt"

AMERICA/HAITI

Solidarity and prayer for the victims of kidnappings

AFRICA/CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE

Violence in the east of the country: the statistics hide innocent victims

Continents

VATICAN

VATICAN

Cardinal Tagle: Baptism is the beginning of a journey of faith

AFRICA

CAMEROON

The Catholic Church takes on the role of mediator: "People have great confidence in the Church"

ASIA

VIET NAM

A "year of grace" for the diocese of Nha Trang, in the footsteps of Cardinal Van Thuan

AMERICA

COSTA RICA

Special Day of prayer for the situation of the pandemic

EUROPE

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Metropolitan Hilarion: the Russian Church will not change its way of establishing the date of Easter

OCEANIA

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Call for dialogue by the Bishop of Alotau to restore peace and order after an attack on the house of diocesan priests

FIDES NEWS

2021-04-16

AMERICA/CHILE - The drama of migrants continues, amid hypocrisy, Covid and a new, more rigid law

2021-04-16

AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - New attack on Palma; UNICEF warns of an escalation of the humanitarian situation

2021-04-16

ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholics who follow masses online due to the pandemic are increasing: Bishops want to a return to the churches after the end of the pandemic

2021-04-16

AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Justice and Peace" Commission expresses concern about high unemployment rates and increasing poverty and crime

2021-04-16

ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Barnabite Fr. Scalese on the withdrawal of US troops: "The risk is to plunge back into civil war and instability"

2021-04-15

ASIA/MYANMAR - "The nation is entrusted to God's mercy"

2021-04-15

AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Prisoners' Day: Catholic Church expresses closeness to prisoners

2021-04-15

AFRICA/BENIN - President Talon re-elected; tensions on the eve of the vote: representatives of religious confessions in meditation at the tomb of Mgr. Isidore de Souza

2021-04-15

ASIA/PAKISTAN - The government rewards Catholic nun "mother of the Forgotten"

News Analysis vai all'indice

Europe

For a "new economy": tax havens must be abolished

Africa

Cardinal Ambongo: in Congo amidst the crisis and risks of balkanization, the Church alongside the people

Africa

Challenges to the evangelizing mission in Africa, at the time of Covid-19

Asia

Evangelization in Asia in the midst of the pandemic

Africa

Africa, the sisters of the Good Shepherd alongside the exploited of cobalt

Asia

Environmental disasters and the Church's commitment: the path of safeguarding creation in Central Asia

Africa

Africa, Covid-19 has not stopped wars

CEP APPOINTMENTS

AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Jorge Joaquim Pinho

EUROPE/POLAND - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, rev. Maciej Bedzinski

EUROPE/HOLLAND - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Rev. Vincent Goulmy

AFRICA/TUNISIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, His Exc. Mgr. Ilario Antoniazzi

Acts of the Holy See

AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of bishop of Bunda

OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Appointment of bishop of Kundiawa

AFRICA/UGANDA - Appointment of bishop of Nebbi

AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of bishop of Lafia

News
Dossier Special Issue Portugués

Evangelization

AMERICA / MEXICO - Bishops ask for "co-responsibility" in school education while the number of Catholics decreases

AFRICA/BENIN - The Church of Benin celebrates 160 years of evangelization

Promotion and Development

AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The service of Catholic education in society: a contribution to the common good

AFRICA/ALGERIA - Augustinian missionaries: "Restoring hope for the future to young people"

Area crisis

ASIA/IRAQ - The government of the autonomous region creates a Committee to counter illegal expropriations of property in Iraqi Kurdistan

AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Are the jihadists who conquered Palma part of a larger network?

Migrants

AFRICA/KENYA - "No to the forced return of refugees to their countries of origin"; the Bishops oppose the closure of the Kakuma and Daadab camps

AMERICA/BRAZIL - Denunciation of the violence perpetrated by the police against Venezuelan immigrants and humanitarian workers

Politics

AMERICA/CHILE - Principles and values of the social teaching of the Church in view of a new Constitution

AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops appeal after the second round of presidential elections

Missionaries Killed

AMERICA/MEXICO - The parish priest of Cristo Rey in Dolores Hidalgo found dead with signs of violence

AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Dedicated to St. Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Bishop and Martyr, the hospital chapel where he was killed

Civil society

AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Church warns of “fake news” on social media

ASIA/INDONESIA - Catholic reaction against terrorism and religious hatred after the Sulawesi massacre

Local Churches

AFRICA/EGYPT - 70 exhibitors at the Fair for small youth enterprises promoted by the Coptic Church

ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - Bishop Hinder: our Christians too look to the Pope's trip to Iraq. And Muslims praise his courage

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