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22 March 2024
AFRICA/GHANA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Konongo-Mampong
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Konongo-Mampong, Ghana, presented by Bishop Joseph Osei-Bonsu.
The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Msgr. John Opoku-Agyemang ...
21 March 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Ambongo: "unscrupulous greed" is the root of new colonialisms
by Luca Attanasio
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa, in addition to leading the diocese of the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), also holds important ...
20 March 2024
ASIA/MYANMAR - The people of God dispersed in Loikaw due to the war seek unity around the Eucharist
Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Loikaw, a town in eastern Myanmar, in the Burmese state of Kayah, is deserted. It is now often referred to as a "ghost town" because civilians have fled for shelter from clashes between the regul ...
20 March 2024
AMERICA/HAITI - "The Church is suffering but there are lights of hope"
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Difficult" is how Sister Marcella Catozza of the Franciscan Sisters of Busto Arsizio, who has been working in Haiti for 20 years, describes the situation of the Church in the Caribbean c ...
20 March 2024
AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan Youth conference: ‘War an attempt to beat Sudanese back into submission’
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - More than 160 Sudanese youth convened from Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Chad, and Egypt, to discuss ways to bring an end to the ongoing conflict.
To provide humanitarian aid ...
20 March 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Kananga
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 19, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Félicien Ntambue Kasembe, C.I.C.M., until now bishop of Kabinda and apostolic administrator of the archdiocese of Kananga, Democratic Republic ...
18 March 2024
ASIA/INDIA - General elections announced; a Jesuit: "to start again from the Constitution"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Election Commission of India has announced that the general elections in the largest democracy in the world will hold a seven-phase general election starting on April 19, over a period of ...
16 March 2024
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Nihil obstat" into the sainthood cause of Filipino teenager Nina Ruiz-Abad
Laoag (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy See has granted the "nihil obstat" ("nothing stands in the way") to begin the process of beatification of a Filipino teenager, Niña Ruiz-Abad (1979-1993), who from now on will be called ...
16 March 2024
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The new cold war passes through mercenaries
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Is the Central African Republic a "Paradise of mercenaries"? The country has long been the scene of the intervention of various private military companies (PMCs), at least since March 2003, when ...
15 March 2024
VATICAN - Pope Francis: Only the real encounter with Jesus frees us from the temptation to "make faith a theory"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In order to be transmitted, faith in the risen Lord, requires "significant experience lived within the family and the Christian community as an encounter with Jesus Christ who changes life" ...
15 March 2024
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop of Tombura Yambio “The situation is catastrophic and therefore requires urgent action”
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Hunger, floods, drought and growing insecurity, a weak economy on the verge of collapse. These are the factors that bring great suffering to the people of South Sudan, says Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, ...
15 March 2024
ASIA/PAKISTAN - On the anniversary of his death, the diocesan phase of the cause of beatification of the young Akah Bashir has concluded
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The sacrifice of Akash Bashir is an example that is bearing fruit in the Church in Pakistan: it ended with a solemn mass of thanksgiving celebrated this morning, March 15, in the Cathedral of Lah ...
15 March 2024
AMERICA/HAITI - "The resignation of the Haitian prime minister under pressure from gang violence has set a dangerous precedent"
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The resignation of the Prime Minister has made it clear that the plan of the armed groups to take power in Haiti has worked," said Sister Marcella Catozza of the Franciscan Sisters of Bu ...
15 March 2024
ASIA/VIETNAM - Deputy Interior Minister: “The Vietnamese government would be happy to welcome Pope Francis”
Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Interior Vu Chien Thang has assured that Vietnam and the Holy See respect each other and maintain friendly relations. He is confident that relations between the Vatic ...
14 March 2024
ASIA/IRAQ - Abolition of the quota of seats reserved for minorities in the Autonomous region of Kurdistan. Christian parties appeal to President Abdul Latif Rashid
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Minority parties and organizations that demand political representation of Christian communities in Iraq continue their mobilization against the decision of the Iraqi Supreme Federal Court to an ...
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