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24 August 2024
ASIA/INDONESIA - "Differences in the relationship with God are not cause for struggle: this is what we teach in schools". Interview with the Minister for Religious Affairs
by Paolo Affatato
Jakarta (Fides News Agency) - A painting occupies an entire wall in the office of the Minister of Religious Affairs, in the Ministry building, in the center of Jakarta. The large canvas depicts the f ...
23 August 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: truce breached, but negotiations continue with Angolan mediation
Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) - Violations have been reported in the ceasefire in North Kivu (in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo), which took effect on August 4 (see Fides 8/8/2024). The agreement negotia ...
23 August 2024
ASIA/INDONESIA - Waiting for Pope Francis, along with the Muslim brothers. An interview with Ignazio Suharyo, Cardinal of Jakarta (I/II)
by Paolo Affatato
Jakarta (Fides News Agency) – Every year, on the Islamic feast of the Sacrifice, the Catholic community of Jakarta gifts the Muslim community a cow. And the imam of the great mosque advises everyon ...
22 August 2024
AFRICA/SUDAN - Uphill road for peace talks in Geneva; three humanitarian corridors reopened
Khartoum (Fides News Agency) – The reopening of three crossing points for humanitarian aid is so far the only (albeit important) result of the peace talks for Sudan currently underway in Geneva.
Representatives of th ...
22 August 2024
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Among the seminarians waiting for the Pope: "The missionaries have sown the seeds"
by Fabio Beretta
Port Moresby (Fides News Agency) – "What does God want from me?". There is joy and many expectations among the young seminarians of Papua New Guinea: in a few days' time they will meet Pope Francis. ...
22 August 2024
ASIA/INDONESIA - Following Jesus in the Land of "Pancasila". An interview with Cardinal of Jakarta Ignazio Suharyo (I/II)
by Paolo Affatato
Jakarta (Fides News Agency) – Entering the Jakarta cathedral complex - named after Our Lady of the Assumption - is a display with the image of Pope Francis counting down, telling the faithful how m ...
21 August 2024
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Kidnappings for ransom on the rise
Addis Ababa (Fides News Agency) – Kidnappings for ransom are on the rise in several regions of Ethiopia. These are carried out by criminal gangs as well as guerrilla movements that use ransom money to finance themselve ...
21 August 2024
VATICAN/GENERAL AUDIENCE - The Pope: Christians spread the fragrance of Christ, not the stench of their own sins
Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - "We are, before God, the fragrance of Christ". Pope Francis quotes Saint Paul and asks Catholics to commit so people may feel "the fragrance of the Spirit of Christ" surrounding each be ...
21 August 2024
EUROPE/UKRAINE - This is how the Orthodox Church connected with the Moscow Patriarchate has been banned from Ukraine
by Chiara Dommarco
Kiev (Fides News Agency) – On Tuesday, August 20, the Verkhovna Rada, the unicameral Parliament of Ukraine, approved, in its second reading, Bill 8371, entitled "On the protection of the constitut ...
20 August 2024
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Concern for the fate of the 20 medical students abducted on August 15
Abuja (Fides News Agency) - Still no news of the 20 medical students abducted on August 15th in Benue State, in east-central Nigeria. The students were en route to the annual national congress held by the Federation of C ...
19 August 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - "The crisis in North Kivu is not just neglected but tolerated" says the UN Humanitarian Coordinator to the DRC
Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) - "6 humanitarian operators were killed and 11 kidnapped between January and June of this year, with upwards of 200 incidents which directly targeted humanitarian operators on the field", sai ...
19 August 2024
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Eln proclaims an "armed strike". The bishops: "Violence is never the answer"
Bogota (Fides News Agency) - The stalemate in peace negotiations and the dialogue crisis between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the government have plunged Colombia into an increasingly tightening spiral of viole ...
19 August 2024
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The governor of Unity State bans forced marriages
Juba (Fides News Agency) - Enough with forced marriages for women and girls. This is what Riek Biem, governor of Unity State in South Sudan, has established. "I am the governor of this State and I declare today: let us s ...
18 August 2024
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Sixty years after martyrdom, the missionaries of Uvira proclaimed Blessed
Uvira (Fides News Agency) – Blessed are the Xaverian missionaries killed out of an odium fidei during the Mulelist uprising against the Congolese Government. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa, r ...
18 August 2024
VATICAN/ANGELUS Pope Francis: "The Eucharist is necessary, Jesus saves us by nourishing our lives with His"
Vatican City (Fides News Agency) – "The Eucharist is necessary, for everyone. Jesus takes care of our greatest need: he saves us, nourishing our lives with his, and does it forever". These are the words of Pope Francis ...
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