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• 8 March 2025
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Appointment of bishop of Bafatá Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Victor Luís Quematcha, O.F.M., until now definitor general of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor for Africa, as bishop of the diocese of Ba ...
• 8 March 2025
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of bishop of Cuddapah Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Paul Prakash Saginala, of the clergy of Cuddapah, India, until now professor of sacred scripture at Saint John’s Regional Seminary in Hyderabad, ...
• 8 March 2025
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Appointment of bishop of Timika Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Bernardus Bofitwos Baru, O.S.A., until now counsellor of the Augustinian vicariate of Papua-Indonesia and director of the Fajar Timur Superior ...
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  8 March 2025
  GREENLAND - Catholics in Greenland: A small church of migrants Nuuk (Agenzia Fides) - Under your feet, mineral-rich soil covered by a thick layer of white snow; above your head, the enchanted sky distorted by the Northern Lights. Bright and long nights, days when the sunlight lasts ...
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  7 March 2025
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The country is heading towards elections. The Archbishop of Dhaka: the important thing is to build a democratic, secular and inclusive nation Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) – While Muhammad Yunus, head of the interim executive of Bangladesh, mentions the possibility of “new elections” – still without a confirmed date but scheduled for late 2024 or early 2025 � ...
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  7 March 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Chinese Catholics pray for the recovery of Pope Francis Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - Chinese Catholics are living the Lenten period of the Jubilee Year with spiritual meditations that also consider the frailties linked to old age and illness in the light of Christian hope, find ...
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  7 March 2025
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The Diocese of La Rioja and the Lenten Season: “authentic conversion for the renewal of our lives and that of our communities” La Rioja (Agenzia Fides) – “We begin the season of Lent in the midst of a Jubilee Year and seeking to implement the conclusions of the Synod on Synodality in the Church” is what Dante Braida, Bishop of La Rioja, ha ...
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  7 March 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop of Nakuru: "We do not know where the huge sum of money donated to churches by politicians comes from and we should be worried" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Let the church not be seen as a beneficiary while schools have no books, hospitals have no medicine and doctors and teachers have no pay," said the Bishop of Nakuru, Cleophas Oseso, in his homi ...
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  7 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The murder of Father Okechukwu is only the latest act in a chain of crimes arising from the insecurity that threatens all citizens Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "This is not only an attack on the Church, but above all a direct affront to the values of justice, peace and human dignity." This is how Julius Yakubu Kundi, Bishop of Kafanchan, described the mu ...
• 7 March 2025
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Erection of the diocese of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, and appointment of first bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, with territory taken from the metropolitan archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam and the diocese of Morogoro, making it a suffragan ...
• 7 March 2025
  AFRICA/COTE D’IVOIRE - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Korhogo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Armand Koné, until now delegate vicar of the archdiocese of Korhogo, Cote d’Ivoire, as metropolitan archbishop of the same see. Msgr. Armand ...
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  6 March 2025
  ASIA/HONG KONG - PIME missionary Giosuè Bonzi leaves Hong Kong: Sixty years of commitment to people with disabilities Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Father Giosuè Bonzi of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), an Italian missionary from Bergamo, has left Hong Kong and his physically and mentally disabled children and young ...
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  6 March 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bangsamoro: dialogue initiatives to counter the increase in violence in the Muslim region Zamboanga City (Agenzia Fides) - The increase in violence in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), in the south of the Philippines, is a factor that worries society, public opinion and religious le ...
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  6 March 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Insecurity prevails in Bukavu where not a night goes by without three or four bodies found on the street” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Not a night goes by in Bukavu without finding three or four bodies on the street. Bodies also emerge from the lake," report local church sources in Bukavu, the capital of the Congolese provinc ...
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  6 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Sylvester Okechukwu killed on Ash Wednesday, a few hours after his kidnapping Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – A Catholic priest was kidnapped and then killed in northern Nigeria. He is Father Sylvester Okechukwu, parish priest of the church of St Mary Tachira, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State ...