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  25 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - “The majority of perpetrators are young people who are sent to the front to be killed” Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "The majority of the perpetrators are teenagers, young people without life experience and training, like a piece of meat to be slaughtered, sent to the front to be killed," said Antonio Crameri, b ...
• 25 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of bishop of Zhengzhou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Thursday 25 January 2024, the Reverend Taddeo Wang Yuesheng received episcopal consecration, following his appointment by the Holy Father on 16 December 2023 as bishop of Zhengzhou, ...
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  25 January 2024
  ASIA/CINA - The Reverend Thaddeus Wang ordained Bishop of the Diocese of Zhengzhou by Gianni Valente and Marta Zhao Zhengzhou (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Zhengzhou has a new Bishop, after being without a resident Bishop for over seventy years. Today, Thursday January 25, the episcopal ordinat ...
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  24 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Camillian missionaries help mentally ill people: “We feel honored” Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Here we have no time to grow old because the various activities keep us young," writes Father Luigi Galvani from the island of Flores in Indonesia. The Camillian missionary, who is a pioneer in ...
• 24 January 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Refuge and home for displaced people: aid programs for refugees and returnees Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Central African Republic is both a country that welcomes refugees and an area from which its inhabitants flee to seek their fortune in neighboring countries. This is because several Central A ...
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  24 January 2024
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Narrating the mission: Pauline Jaricot Prize is awarded for the second time Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - The life of Christian communities, the missionary and pastoral activities of local churches and the witness to the vitality and beauty of the proclamation of the Gospel are the criteria taken into ...
• 23 January 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - 360° policy: Russian mercenaries, Rwandan soldiers and perhaps American "contractors" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "President Faustin-Archange Touadera is implementing a 360° policy so as not to tie himself too closely to an international actor", a local source from the Central African Republic tells Fides. ...
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  23 January 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - 'Reaching for Hope, Branching together': Family Day 2024 in the Sacred Heart Parish in Manama Manama (Agenzia Fides) - "We are the people of one God, we are one family, we come from different countries, with different languages, cultures and traditions, but we are all brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ", emphas ...
• 23 January 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Islamic studies no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - It is a turning point for religious minorities in Pakistan: the study of Islam is no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students in schools at all levels. The Federal Ministry of Education and V ...
• 22 January 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Election campaign: “Avoid instrumentalizing the election” Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Call for "observation of the democratic process", for a "peaceful, honest, fair and dignified election" and for the avoidance of religious content and topics in the political election campaign s ...
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  22 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - State University honors Thomas Aquinas on his 800th birthday Wuhan (Agenzia Fides) - The School of Philosophy of the Chinese State University "Huazhong University of Science and Technology" (HUST) in the city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, will hold an academic ceremony in J ...
• 22 January 2024
  AMERICA/HAITI - Which of the 300 Haitian gangs kidnapped the 6 nuns? Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - There is still no news about the total of eight people (including six religious sisters) who were kidnapped in Haiti on January 19. The sisters, who belong to the Congrégation des Sœurs ...
• 20 January 2024
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - From "island of peace" to one of the most violent countries in the world Quito (Agenzia Fides) - From "island of peace" to the eleventh most violent country in the world, on a par with Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, accor ...
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  20 January 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The diocesan phase of the cause of beatification opens for two missionary bishops Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - The testimony of the two bishops François Pallu (MEP) (1626-1684) and Pierre Lambert de La Motte (MEP) (1624 - 1679), the first missionaries sent to the Far East, is precious for Vietnamese Catho ...
• 19 January 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - More and more civilians are caught up in the “war between the generals” Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The war in Sudan has now transformed from a clash between the regular army (SAF) led by General Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the command of Mohamed Hamdan Da ...