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• 21 October 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - President Prabowo Subianto takes office as Head of State Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The new Indonesian Head of State, Prabowo Subianto, has officially taken office as the eighth President of the country, after the handover from outgoing President Joko Widodo. In his first spe ...
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  21 October 2024
  AMERICA/USA - US Presidential election: Trump and Harris' positions on abortion Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "Both are against life - the one who throws out migrants and the one who kills children". "I cannot decide. I am not American and I will not go to vote there. But let it be clear: sending mi ...
• 18 October 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Controversial Islamic preacher visits the Pakistani government Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "It is really shocking for us that the controversial Indian Islamic preacher Zakir Naik has been invited by the Pakistani government and is appearing in the main Pakistani cities to sow religious ...
• 18 October 2024
  AFRICA/NIGER - Cereals and pulses export ban: exceptions apply to Mali and Burkina Faso Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The military junta in Niger has banned the export of pulses and cereals, except for those to countries belonging to the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), which brings together Niger, Mali and Burki ...
• 18 October 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Rigathi Gachagua removed from office: Minister of the Interior appointed new Deputy President Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenyan Minister of the Interior, Kithure Kindiki, was appointed Deputy President of Kenya today, October 18, replacing Rigathi Gachagua, who was removed from office yesterday, October 17, by ...
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  18 October 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Churches of Bangladesh write to the Chief Counselor: "Easter should become a national holiday" by Fabio Beretta Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Easter should become a national holiday. This is what the Christians of Bangladesh are asking the transitional government to do in a letter signed by Bishop Bejoy N. D'Cruze, ...
• 17 October 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation and succession of archbishop of Makassar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Makassar, Indonesia, presented by Archbishop Johannes Liku Ada’. He is succeeded by Bishop Frans ...
• 17 October 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "The war in Sudan receives little attention, but the suffering it causes is no less" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "I was saddened to hear about the recent developments in the military offensive in El Fasher and Khartoum, which targeted civilian homes, hospitals and places of worship. The conflict, which ha ...
• 17 October 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Bishops on the death of businessman Ratan Tata: "A beacon of compassion" esteemed by the Catholics Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "Ratan Tata was an icon among entrepreneurs, a visionary leader and a philanthropist whose indelible contribution to society will be remembered for generations," said the Indian Bishops' Confe ...
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  17 October 2024
  VATICAN - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS 2024 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – As every year, in view of World Mission Sunday, which this year celebrates its 98th anniversary on Sunday, October 20, 2024, Fides News Agency offers some statistics chosen to give a pano ...
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  16 October 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Joint appeal by religious leaders: “God give our people hope to withstand this catastrophe” Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanese homeland is wounded, "and the wound infects each of us". With these words, Maronite Patriarch Béchara Boutros Raï began his speech at the opening of the extraordinary Summit of religio ...
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  16 October 2024
  VATICAN - Films and photos of the missions: a treasure to be preserved and rediscovered by Samuele Massimi and Fabio Beretta Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Recovering and enhancing the vast multimedia heritage collected in the archives of the main religious organizations involved in the missions with th ...
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  16 October 2024
  VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - Pope Francis: "The life given to us by the Holy Spirit is eternal life!" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we can value the most important prerogative for us that is proclaimed in the article of the Creed, namely that the Holy Spirit is “life-giving”, the “giver of life”, said Pop ...
• 16 October 2024
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Interreligious prayer for the health of the President Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The mystery surrounding the health of Cameroonian President Paul Biya, who has not appeared in public since the beginning of September, is growing. The Cameroonian Head of State did not attend ...
• 16 October 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Almost 100 dead in tanker explosion Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - More than 90 people have died in the explosion of a tanker in Nigeria. The tragedy occurred around midnight on October 15 in the town of Majia, in Jigawa state, in north-central Nigeria. In additi ...