News

• 24 October 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - 9 hostages captured in the attack on the church of Nchang have been released Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to thank the Freedom Fighters of Ambazonia for having released us without paying any ransom", says one of the nine hostages captured on September 16th in the attack on the Church of St ...
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  24 October 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Pope Francis: "violence does not resolve discord". The region awaits peace talks Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - The Eritrean troops advancing alongside the Ethiopians have taken control of Adua, the historic city in the Tigray region, a symbol for the Ethiopians of the victory against Italian colonial ...
• 24 October 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of the Bishop of Doruma-Dungu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Msgr. Emile Mushosho Matabaro, of the clergy of Bukavu, currently apostolic administrator of the diocese of Doruma-Dungu, as bishop of the same di ...
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  24 October 2022
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Social Week 2022: The focus is on land rights and agricultural reform Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "Land ownership in Paraguay" is the theme of the "Social Week 2022" to be held from 25 to 27 October in the capital Asuncion, organized by the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral Care. The ...
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  22 October 2022
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Venezuelan emigrants integrated into Brazilian society through work: the experience of the "Casa Bom Samaritano" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - A new group of migrants arrived this week at the "Casa Bom Samaritano" Reception Center in Brasilia. The House, inaugurated in February 2021, serves as temporary accommodation for refugees and ...
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  22 October 2022
  VATICAN - Communiqué on the extension of the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People's Republic of China regarding the appointment of Bishops Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Upon the expiration of the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China regarding the appointment of Bishops, which was signed in Beijing on 22 September ...
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  22 October 2022
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle: the reasons why the Holy See renews the provisional Agreement with the government of Beijing on the appointment of Chinese Catholic Bishops by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - «The reason for everything is to safeguard the valid apostolic succession and the sacramental nature of the Catholic Church in China», in the desire «to reassure, comfort and ...
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  22 October 2022
  EUROPE/ITALY - A Scottish woman, missionary in Egypt and the Middle East, at the head of the Comboni Missionaries Verona (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Anne Marie Quigg is the new Superior General of the Institute of the Pious Mothers of Negritude (Combonian Missionaries), founded in 1872, 150 years ago, by Saint Daniele Comboni. She was ...
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  22 October 2022
  VATICAN - Cardinal Parolin: an agreement on aspects essential to daily life of Church in China Rome - Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin grants an interview to discuss the two-year renewal of the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China. The interview ...
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  21 October 2022
  VATICAN - Catholic Church Statistics 2022 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - As every year, in view of World Mission Sunday, which this year celebrates its 96th anniversary on Sunday, October 23, 2022, Fides New Service offers some statistics chosen to give a panora ...
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  21 October 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - New date proposed for peace talks in Tigray Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - The African Union has set a new date for October 24 for peace talks on the war in Tigray. The news was also reported by Redwan Hussein, National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Abiy, con ...
• 21 October 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A nun also killed in the assault on a village in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - At least 7 dead, including a nun who worked in the health sector, and an unknown number of people kidnapped. This is the toll of the assault that took place in the night between 19 and 20 Octob ...
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  21 October 2022
  ASIA - The Bishops analyze the "emerging realities" on the continent Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - To discover and learn about the "emerging realities" in the Asian continent, phenomena that characterize society, culture, economy, to grant pastoral action and understand the ways to proclaim t ...
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  21 October 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Ebola, malnutrition, illiteracy: Camillian religious health centers at the service of the poorest Musoli (Agenzia Fides) - Malnutrition, poverty, illiteracy and unemployment are among the country's main challenges. To this is added, since the beginning of September, an epidemic of Ebola, which seems for the moment to ...
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  21 October 2022
  VATICAN - Catholics and pastoral workers increase in Africa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The "Catholic Church Statistics" that Fides publishes annually on the occasion of World Mission Day, taken from the latest edition of the «Church’s Book of Statistics», show that Africa ...