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19 January 2024
ASIA/INDONESIA - Presidential election: Ash Wednesday rite postponed to Thursday
Ruteng (Agenzia Fides) - So that the faithful can experience the important moment of the elections with full attention and with a conscience enlightened by faith and the search for the common good and charity, and on the ...
19 January 2024
ASIA/BAHRAIN - "The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia is a symbol of freedom and religious coexistence"
Awali (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, in Awali, also known as the Cathedral in the Desert, in addition to its predominantly religious nature, is a place of welcome and sharing for thousands of peop ...
18 January 2024
ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako calls for withdrawal of sectarian militias from the Nineveh Plain
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, calls on the government in Baghdad "to assume its national and legal responsibilities by adopting practical and clear measures ...
18 January 2024
EUROPE/SPAIN - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, José María Calderón Castro
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 19, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, confirmed for a another five years the Reverend Father José María Calderón Castro ...
18 January 2024
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Prosecutor investigating links between narcos and corrupt officials killed
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - César Suárez, the Ecuadorian prosecutor assassinated yesterday, January 17, was carrying out delicate investigations. The prosecutor was murdered with at least 20 gunshots last night in Guayaqui ...
18 January 2024
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - 16 non-governmental organizations dissolved, including some Catholic organizations
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the release of 19 Catholic Bishops, priests and seminarians (see Fides, 15/1/2024) detained in the prisons of Managua, it became known that sixteen non-governmental organization ...
18 January 2024
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: “No matter how hard and long the struggle, the time of reconciliation will come”
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The texts of the meditations, prayers and celebrations to be used by Christians around the world during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2024 (January 18-25, 2024) were published this ...
18 January 2024
EUROPE/RUSSIA - New Russian edition of Pope Benedict XVI "Jesus of Nazareth" presented in Moscow
by Chiara Dommarco Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - On Wednesday evening, January 17, the new Russian-language edition of the book "Jesus of Nazareth" was presented in Moscow at the Biblioteca dello Spirito cultural center. The ...
17 January 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Wamba
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Wamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, presented by Bishop Janvier Kataka Luvete.
The Holy Father ha ...
17 January 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Désiré Lenge Mukwenye as bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Msgr. Désiré Lenge Mukwenye has hitherto served as diocesa ...
17 January 2024
AFRICA/NIGERIA - On the shores of Lake Chad: Dozens dead in fighting between Boko Haram and the Islamic State
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Violent clashes broke out between Boko Haram and militants from the Islamic State - West Africa Province (ISWAP) on the shores of Lake Chad, on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. The fightin ...
17 January 2024
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The service of the missionaries of Saint Columban in Pakistan for more than forty years
Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - More than forty years, the missionaries of the Missionary Society of Saint Columban - priests, nuns and lay missionaries - have been at the service of the people of Pakistan. Father John Boles, ...
17 January 2024
ASIA/JAPAN - Nuclear Disarmament: A Natural Buddhist-Catholic Alliance, Explains Japanese Leader
by Victor Gaetan *
“Jesus and Buddha were peacemakers and promoters of non-violence,”
Pope Francis, May 28, 2022
Nagasaki (Agenzia Fides) - At the United Nations headquarters in New York City, on the third f ...
16 January 2024
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Suicide bombing in Mogadishu near the Cathedral
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Three people were killed and two injured in a suicide attack carried out this morning, January 16, 2024, in front of the mayor's office in Mogadishu. Authorities report that the explosion caus ...
16 January 2024
AFRICA/MOROCCO - Assembly of the Bishops of North Africa comes to an end
Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Regional Episcopal Conference dealt with the synodal process, a theological reflection on the life of the Churches of the Maghreb and the reception and implementation of the Dec ...
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