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  30 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Young Christian sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy through WhatsApp Bahawalpur (Agenzia Fides) - Nouman Asghar, a 24-year-old Christian from the city of Bahawalpur, in Punjab, was sentenced to death for blasphemy today, May 30, by a court of first instance in Bahawalpur. The young man ha ...
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  30 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Ceasefire extended for another five days: Numerous violations across the country Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The ceasefire between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which came into force on May 22nd and was scheduled to last for seven days, has been extended for anoth ...
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  30 May 2023
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Freeing "modern slaves" from their chains: the mission of a parish priest in Punjab by Paolo Affatato Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Five Christian families are trapped in the web of "slave labour" in the clay factories scattered in the countryside of Pakistani Punjab. Each of them includes young people, ...
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  30 May 2023
  AFRICA/CHAD - The Episcopal Conference: "Enough of the blood and tears of Chadians" N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "The blood and tears of Chadians have shed enough and must stop" warn the Bishops of Chad in a memorandum addressed to the President of the Transition, Acting Head of State, Mahamat Idriss Dé ...
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  30 May 2023
  VATICAN - From May 31 to June 6, the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies Ciampino (Agenzia Fides) - The Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) opens tomorrow, Wednesday, May 31, and its work will continue until June 6. The National Directors of the PMS from all c ...
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  29 May 2023
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Tense situation in Papua: Catholics are trying to resolve the conflict Jayapura (Agenzia Fides) - "The conflict in the Indonesian Papua region is destined to increase in intensity, due to the growing deployment of members of the Indonesian security forces, after the case of the kidnapping o ...
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  29 May 2023
  ASIA/TURKEY - Erdogan remains in power. Bishop Bizzeti: the inadequacy of certain Western analyzes emerges Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The final results of the elections in Turkey, with the victory of the incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also highlight "the inadequacy of Western media tools in presenting the Turkish sit ...
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  29 May 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Precarious security situation: Another Catholic priest kidnapped in Imo State Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A week after the kidnapping of Father Kingsley Maduka and his subsequent release (see Fides, 22/5/2023), the kidnapping of another Catholic priest in Imo State (south-eastern Nigeria) is causing c ...
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  27 May 2023
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Bishop Balla: "Christian and Muslim religious representatives are involved in the discussion about the country's growth" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Between Mali, Sierra Leone and the Atlantic Ocean lies Guinea with its capital city of Conakry, the northern part of the country bordering equally on one corner of Guinea Bissau and one of Seneg ...
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  27 May 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Women entrepreneurs in rural areas, thanks to the Archdiocese of Calcutta Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) – To restore dignity to women in society, especially in rural areas; to promote their entrepreneurial capacities and develop their skills: it is with this objective that the organization "Seva ...
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  27 May 2023
  VATICAN - Communicating joy and "speaking from the heart": multimedia course "Communication is mission" has ended Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Communicating joy and "speaking from the heart", as Pope Francis says in his message for the Day of Social Communications 2023; to serve the Lord and the local churches in the work of evang ...
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  27 May 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - Don Milani's mission by Gianni Valente On May 27, 1923, exactly one hundred years ago, Don Lorenzo Milani was born in Florence. The anniversary rekindles the ever-conflicting attention around the inimitable figure of the Italian priest. T ...
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  26 May 2023
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - Premature death of a Korean fidei donum priest, an example of missionary passion, humility and poverty Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - There are missionaries who leave an indelible mark both in the community where they carried out their apostolic service and in the community of origin, which "brought them to faith" and acco ...
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  26 May 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The Shakahola massacre is a well organized, well planned and perfectly executed crime" says Interior Minister Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - There are 241 bodies found so far of followers of a Kenyan sect, buried in mass graves in the Shakahola forest, in eastern Kenya, on a ranch in Kilifi county, near the city of Malindi (see Fides ...
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  26 May 2023
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Another sacrilegious act against sacred places: already 90 since the beginning of 2023 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "They can desecrate our temples, destroy our images, but our faith always remains in Jesus Christ who created heaven and earth. Long live the Sacramental Jesus". This is a new sacrilegious act r ...