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  15 April 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The Sudanese conflict enters its third year Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – With tens of thousands of dead, 14 million internally displaced people, and more than three and a half million refugees in neighboring countries, Sudan is entering the third year of a devasta ...
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  15 April 2025
  AMERICA/HAITI - Children and adults of the Pourcine Pic Makaya community: a people of heroes by Father Massimo Miraglio* Pourcine Pic Makaya (Agenzia Fides) – Every morning, around 250 children walk for hours along steep and dangerous paths to reach the primary and nursery school in Pourcine Pic Makaya, wh ...
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  15 April 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The nation consecrates itself to Divine Mercy: a "collective response of faith and hope" Manila (Agenzia Fides) – In a context of growing social and political polarization, the Philippines is preparing to consecrate itself to Divine Mercy as a sign of national unity. The country's Bishops' Conference has c ...
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  15 April 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Maniema province is also suffering the consequences of the war in neighboring North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Calm has returned to Lubutu, in Maniema province, following clashes between two factions of Wazalendo militiamen sparked by a leadership dispute. Reconciliation was achieved last weekend duri ...
• 15 April 2025
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Pilcomayo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Miguel Fritz, O.M.I., until now apostolic administrator of Pilcomayo, Paraguay, as vicar apostolic of the same apostolic vicariate. The Rever ...
• 15 April 2025
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Appointment of bishop of Molegbe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Joseph Mopepe Ngongo, doctoral candidate in theology at the Université Catholique du Congo, as bishop of the diocese of Molegbe, Democratic Repu ...
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  14 April 2025
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Nazareno Lanciotti, missionary and martyr, will be proclaimed Blessed São Paulo (Agenzia Fides) – "We have come to kill you because you bother us too much." These were the last words Father Nazareno Lanciotti heard before he was shot dead in his rectory in Jauru, in the Brazilian state ...
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  14 April 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Assault on the Zamzam camp hosting more than 500,000 displaced people Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – “We have taken control of Zamzam to protect civilians and medical personnel and we are ready to receive convoys of humanitarian aid,” the militiamen of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said ...
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  14 April 2025
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Medical support for people with disabilities or in situations of extreme poverty Foya (Agenzia Fides) - For some years now, the parish of St. John Vianney in Foya, a remote strip of land in Liberia, with the formation of a charitable group, has begun to support the medical expenses of those who are u ...
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  14 April 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Palm Sunday and Holy Week among the rubble: “Christ is among the displaced” Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - In Mandalay, Palm Sunday was celebrated among the rubble “as a sign of resilience and Christian joy in the midst of devastation and suffering,” says Fr. John Kyaw Thu Ya, parish priest of O ...
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  14 April 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - In war-torn Kivu the Bishop of Butembo-Beni urges the faithful not to lose faith Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “We must never lose faith, whatever happens to us. Even when everything seems dark, God never abandons us,” urged Msgr. Melchisédech Sikuli Paluku, Bishop of Butembo-Beni, during Palm Su ...
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  13 April 2025
  VATICAN - Palm Sunday, the Pope: like Simon of Cyrene, he who carries the cross of Christ shares his redemptive love Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "Faced with the appalling injustice of evil, we never carry the cross of Christ in vain; on the contrary, it is the most tangible way for us to share in his redemptive love." Under a gray ...
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  12 April 2025
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A journey of hope in the East of Bale Robe (Agenzia Fides) - "It all began when in Robe we saw how many people were fleeing the persistent drought in eastern Bale. Interested and concerned, we set out to find out what was happening there. We found an area wh ...
• 12 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Erection of the ecclesiastical province of Calicut, India, and appointment of first metropolitan archbishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has erected the ecclesiastical province of Calicut, India, elevating the see of Calicut to a metropolitan Church and assigning to it as suffragans the diocese of Kannur and ...
• 12 April 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Dumka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Sonatan Kisku, until now vicar general of the diocese of Dumka and parish priest of Saint Mary’s, as auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Dumka, I ...