News

• 27 March 2023
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Poona Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Poona, India, presented by Bishop Thomas Dabre. The Holy Father has appointed Bishop J ...
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  25 March 2023
  ASIA/LEBANON - Annunciation, national holiday. Lebanese Christians and Muslims together invoke Mary in the country besieged by the crisis Kornet Chehwan (Agenzia Fides) - In a Lebanon shaken by a devastating economic crisis and yet another paralysis of the political system, on the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord Christians and Muslims are once again ...
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  25 March 2023
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Sisters on a Lenten "pilgrimage/retreat". To give thanks for Creation and remember their founder Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - A pilgrimage is like "a spiritual retreat in motion". For this reason, the Taiwanese community of the Missionary Sisters of the Congregation of the Sacred Side and of Our Lady of Sorrows has chos ...
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  25 March 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Laid the first foundations of the health center in Yoro for thousands of refugees: a work illuminated by the hope that comes from the Cross Yoro (Agenzia Fides) - "We finally have the foundations of the new health center in Yoro in which we are involved in assisting refugees in this northwestern part of the country", reports to Fides Sister Laura Gemignani, ...
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  24 March 2023
  The beatitude of martyrs, friends in Paradise by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Today, March 24, 2023, marks the 31st Day of Missionary Martyrs. In 1992, the then Youth Movement of the Italian Pontifical Mission Societies (today Missio Giovani) proposed for ...
• 24 March 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - 100 years of the parish of Pabré, a sign of grace and hope in a country plagued by insecurity Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "All believers must unite for a world more worthy of God, a world where everyone is happy", urged Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, in his homily delivered during of t ...
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  24 March 2023
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - In the state of Piauí, 80% of the population suffers from lack of food Teresina (Agenzia Fides) - 80% of the inhabitants of Piauí, a Brazilian state located in the northeast of the country, in the arid region of Sertão, suffer from hunger. According to the report of the "Rede Brasileira d ...
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  24 March 2023
  EUROPE/ITALY - A "penitential celebration of reparation" after the massacre of Cutro Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - The "Pro Civitate Christiana" of Assisi organizes and invites to live, today, March 24, a Penitential Celebration of Reparation in the form that will be deemed most appropriate, after the massacr ...
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  24 March 2023
  ASIA/CHINA - Free medical care and scholarships for children from poor families: Charity Lent led by Chinese Catholic communities Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Throughout the world, prayer, fasting and almsgiving are the good works that the Catholic Church recommends and offers to her sons and daughters during Lent, the time of penance that precedes th ...
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  23 March 2023
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Parliamentary elections, the ruling party reduces its membership Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "Starting from the downsizing of the Party that has always been in power, there are signs of great movements in the political field in Kazakhstan. There remains, in society, the question of the l ...
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  23 March 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Father Norberto, a Carmelite missionary injured by a mine, had already escaped three road ambushes Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Father Norberto Pozzi, born in 1952, Discalced Carmelite missionary from Lecco, injured in the north-west of Central Africa by a landmine on February 10 (see Fides, 13/2/2023), was the victim of ...
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  23 March 2023
  AMERICA/HAITI - The priest of the Clerics of St. Viator who had been kidnapped at Croix des Bouquets has been released Croix des Bouquets (Agenzia Fides) - Father Jean-Yves Medidor, priest of the Clerics of St. Viator, parish priest of Christ-Roi le Meilleur in Port-au-Prince has been released. The news was announced by Father Nestor Fil ...
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  23 March 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - "She ended her life praying for everyone". Sister Maria Agustina Rivas, killed for being a peacemaker by Stefano Lodigiani La Florida (Agenzia Fides) - "A missionary nun killed for having been a peacemaker", this is the title of the news in which Agenzia Fides reported on the tragic death of Sister Maria Agustina Riva ...
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  22 March 2023
  AMERICA/PERU - Several religious congregations are mobilizing to intervene in favor of the populations affected by Cyclone Yaku Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Collapsed houses, severe flooding, flooding of several rivers, landslides and numerous problems in urban areas are some of the consequences of the passage of Cyclone Yaku in Peru between March 16 a ...
• 22 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "We have joy in our hearts despite the violence" write the catechists from the Niger-Burkina Faso border area Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We have come to tell you that we have joy in our hearts despite the prevailing security situation in the area; we always have faith in Jesus Christ", write the catechists from Makalondi, Bomoang ...