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23 September 2024
ASIA/SRI LANKA - President Dissanayake: the new face of the nation
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Anura Kumara Dissanayake is the new president of Sri Lanka, the Electoral Commission announced yesterday after the election on Saturday, September 21. A member of parliament with a left-wing pol ...
23 September 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The commitment of religious denominations for peace in South Kivu
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - An interreligious meeting for peace held on September 21 in Bukavu, capital of South Kivu, one of the three eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been plagued for dec ...
21 September 2024
AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Appointment of special envoy for the celebration of the Sixth American Missionary Congress (CAM6)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed His Eminence Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, archbishop emeritus of Caracas, as his special envoy to the celebration of the Sixth American Missionary ...
21 September 2024
ASIA/VIETNAM - “WYO4children”: a musical project that heals wounds and opens people up
Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - The orphans of the home run by the Missionary sisters of Charity in the diocese of Phu Cuong, in southern Vietnam, have learned that “music heals the wounds of the heart”, said Fr. ...
20 September 2024
ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï condemns attack on the Lebanese people
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "Sadness" for the bloody attack that hit "almost three thousand Lebanese citizens" by turning their pagers and walkie-talkies into explosive devices, and his firm condemnation of the Israeli atta ...
20 September 2024
AFRICA/MALI - Terrorist attacks in Bamako have secular and religious backgrounds
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamist attacks carried out on September 17 in the Malian capital Bamako (see Fides, 18/9/2024) have various backgrounds, as local observers suspect. The attacks, which were claimed by the I ...
20 September 2024
EUROPE/ITALY - Missio Italia: Inauguration of the Missionary Education Center
Verona (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, Saturday 21 September, the new headquarters of the Missionary Education Center “Centro Unitario per la Formazione Missionaria” (CUM) will be inaugurated in Verona. The Missio Italia ...
20 September 2024
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Violence and social disintegration: young people determined to stay and preserve the presence of coexistence in Bossemptélé
Bossemptélé (Agenzia Fides) - The Central African Republic (CAR) is still suffering the consequences of the civil war that began in 2013, which has caused deep social disintegration. According to UN reports, violence c ...
20 September 2024
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Elections in the midst of an economic and political crisis: the people demand change
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the popular protests that led to the dismissal of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in the midst of a serious economic crisis, Sri Lanka is preparing to elect a new president. ...
20 September 2024
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy on WhatsApp
Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Shagufta Kiran, a 40-year-old Pakistani Christian, was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to death under Article 295-C of the Penal Code for defaming the Prophet Muhammad through a messag ...
19 September 2024
ASIA/CHINA - Danger for Chinese Catholics: Bishops warn again about sects
by Marta Zhao
Ningbo (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholics must stay away from sects and their teachings, categorically refusing to attend their meetings. The baptized must persevere in the faith and adhere to the truths reve ...
19 September 2024
ASIA/INDIA - Wayanad landslide victims: joy for being alive and sadness for the current situation
Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Although the government has provided a fixed rent and food subsidy to the people seriously affected on July 29 by the landslides that devastated the Wayanad district in Kerala, the population ...
19 September 2024
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 3, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches), appointed Rev. Father La ...
19 September 2024
ASIA/INDIA - Holy Year under the sign of ecumenism: Catholic Church wants to include other Christian denominations
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - It will be a Holy Year that will be lived in India under the sign of ecumenism: this is what the President of the Latin Rite Bishops' Conference (CCBI) in India and Archbishop of Goa and Daman ...
19 September 2024
AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop of Kitui: "The hope is that new leaders will emerge from the young generation"
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The young people are taking to the streets to protest because they are disappointed by the unfulfilled promises of politicians," said the Bishop of Kitui, Joseph Maluki Mwongela, head of the la ...
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