News

• 26 September 2022
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Tensions in Goma due to the protests of the population demanding for more safety and the blue helmets Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions arose on the sidelines of a protest called "Dead City" held in Goma today, September 26, called by civil society organizations in North Kivu. The protests included demands for the libe ...
• 26 September 2022
  ASIA/JAPAN - Resignation of the Bishop of Takamatsu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Takamatsu (Japan) presented by His Exc. Msgr. John Eijiro Suwa. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 26/9/2022) ...
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  26 September 2022
  ASIA/INDIA - Religious Forum for Justice and Peace: "Firm in faith, alongside the oppressed in the midst of tribulation" Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - "To be prophets in a Church often disfigured by ritualism, to remain steadfast in faith, anchored in Christ Jesus, in the midst of the tribulations that arise from choosing to stand alongside ...
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  26 September 2022
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes: "Let us be missionaries of the Word so that many may be transformed" Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "This will be the week of encounter with the Word and of our ability to listen, starting with me, with our priests, and with each of you: so that in this week we can become missionaries of the W ...
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  26 September 2022
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Archbishop Dal Toso: "The Pontifical Mission Societies are a universal family" Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - As a "special network" in the Catholic Church, characterized on the one hand by the "closeness to the Pope" as one of his aid organizations and on the other hand by the connection to the local Ch ...
• 24 September 2022
  AFRICA/CHAD - After clashes between shepherds and farmers: Bishop of Sarh calls for justice and solidarity with victims N’Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "Once again blood has been shed on our country. Once again innocent people have died or been injured by the iniquity of a few gunmen. Once again the property of citizens already living in po ...
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  24 September 2022
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - World Migrants Day: “We must not remain indifferent” San José (Agenzia Fides) - "We must not remain indifferent to a possible humanitarian crisis and must deal with what is happening in our country in a holistic way. To the already complex situation of Nicaraguan migratio ...
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  24 September 2022
  ASIA/VIETNAM - In cooperation with state research institutions: church commitment to drug prevention Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - In collaboration with the Vietnamese Research Institute for Drug Prevention, the Catholic Church in Vietnam organizes seminars for young people - Catholic and non-Catholic - to help young people a ...
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  24 September 2022
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - In the USA for 75 years: Pontifical Institute for Foreign Mission looks back and thinks about the future Detroit (Agenzia Fides) - "Our mission today is rooted in tradition and at the same time looks to the future: it is about the proclamation of the Gospel, proclaimed as a witness to the miracles of God and sown in society ...
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  23 September 2022
  EUROPE/MALTA - Soccer schools "workshops" of missionary animation Valletta (Agenzia Fides) - Soccer schools for children, the mission and a "sock-ball", a ball created with "socks", that is with the most varied recycled material, are the elements that will give life to the initiative " ...
• 23 September 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The forgotten conflict in the north is increasingly at the center of the interests of African and non-African powers Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Northern Mozambique where the Comboni missionary Sister Maria De Coppi, among others, was killed on September 6 during the attack on the Chipene mission (see Fides, 7/9/2022), is increasingly at ...
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  23 September 2022
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Bishops, priests, religious: always and in all cases at the side of the people, with a strength that "only God can give" Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - "A year and a half after the coup of February 1, 2021, when violence is raging especially in certain areas, it is difficult to see a way out of this conflicting situation. But we believers, we ...
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  23 September 2022
  AMERICA/PERU - Bicentennial of the Congress: "Do not abruptly dismiss, without hope, the possibility of building a future together" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - “A few days ago, also from this pulpit, we dedicated a special reflection on the ability to generously build the Homeland. And it is a task that all of us who have a position of responsibility, a ...
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  22 September 2022
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - The destruction caused by the torrential rains and impetuous winds of Hurricane Fiona Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - Hurricane Fiona, which hit the Caribbean with torrential rains and very strong winds, caused catastrophic damage and at least two deaths in Puerto Rico on Sunday, September 18, before hitt ...
• 22 September 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Kidnapped Catholics: "We don't want to create dangerous precedents; we do not pay the requested ransom" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "We will not pay a dime" to the kidnappers of the nine worshippers taken from St. Mary’s Catholic Church, in the village of Nchang (see Fides, 19/6/2022) in the Anglophone area of Cameroon. T ...